Burlesque le Paris

Burlesque has actually been around for a long long time. Early mentions in literature puts it roughly 350 years back or so. But this post is about Neo burlesque a remade romanticised upcomming of the glam and show days of the pre prehabition days of old America.

The feathers, the shoes and the glitter. It must be a titan of an upkeep. Was what I was thinking as I slipped away into darkness on the couch of one of the Burlesque dancers. But on the other hand that is kind of what makes the whole thing interesting. Like "Dita von Teese", famous burlesque dancer and former wife of Mr.Manson said. It's putting terse back into stip terse. To me its quite different from the stip teases or shows I've seen earlier. The version I enjoyed this night was more of a cabaret with tease elements. It was the show and the showmanship that the crowed enjoyed.

One thing that dawned upon me was something that was pre-shared to me by my girlfriend, was the mundanity of the girls physical, well health. While many premiere skilled strippers and pole dancers work hard on their physical attributes, often with the aid of artificial means these women where your very natural ordinary women. Well at least they looked like it.
Ranging from exotic, teasing to humorusly kitschy or uniquely inventive, they all put on a good show. Including the comedian/sexy hostess.

The crowd is in contrast to many other "sensual" shows around the world not all male and in fact there might have been more women occupying the plush seats of this illustriousness and elegantly simply little theater in the fancier districts of Paris. In Fact it was Stéphanie Portier who brought me here. Here is a clip with more info on French Neo Burlesque. Obs, it's in french.

Although the US was the birthplace of "Neo Burlesque" the French puts on a good show and shows some new and inventive styles too.  definitively recommend you to go see a show like this if your ever in Paris. Check out Burlesque Paris for more into.