Jo Weldon's New York School of Burlesque

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5J8gf9OFTRY I won't have much time to post over the next few weeks, so I'm simply posting videos, photos, websites, articles, and other items recommended by blog readers and friends. This was recommended by Sweetie Bird. Got a recommendation? Email school of burlesque@gmail.com.

http://www.nbcbayarea.com/around_town/nightlife/35411069.html This video features some of my personal faves--and, not coincidentally, blog interviewees-- Baby Doe and Kitten on the Keys , as well as a few other Bay Area stars. I love the way Kitten describes an act that might come to be in this clip: "I could be Joe the Plumber and show a little plumber's crack and turn it into a whole social commentary." Above: Kitten on the Keys hosting Tease-o-Rama 2008. Photo by me. Above: The Devilettes performing with Viva La Fever at Tease-O-Rama 2008. Photo by me. Posted by Jo Weldon, Headmistress of The New York School of Burlesque , for burlesquedaily.blogspot.com .

From Viola diGamba: Burlesque Photos by Marius Muresanu. From Cozy Josie: A Burlesque Chick Comes to a Bad End. Posted by Jo Weldon, Headmistress of The New York School of Burlesque , for burlesquedaily.blogspot.com .

Click and enjoy the glamour! Presented by It's a Chick Films .

'In 1951, le striptease was an import from America, more daring than the high-kicking kitsch of French burlesque. Bernardin loved American popular culture, loved women, and seems to have particularly liked the way their naked bodies were rendered in an almost abstract fashion by surrealist artists such as Magritte. An amateur artist and friend of Marcel Duchamp, Bernardin was, in his own way, a dirty old Dada-ist, applying an arty European gloss to a product of the fleshpots of America.' Wait until you read about their strict guidelines for their dancers! 'Tattoos and silicon implants are banned. This is now restricting the club’s traditional international recruitment policy, Deissenberg explains, because the British girls who used to make up about half of the Crazy Horse’s roster tend nowadays to have had something inked into some part of their body. No Brits currently feature in the Paris show, which is largely staffed by French former ballet dancers. When the Crazy H...

I don't post video clips often because they seem to get deleted from youtube soon afterward, but I can't resist this one! I use this in my "Exotic Dance in Contemporary Film" presentation, and this is the first time I've found it online. As you can see if you look at the video's youtube page, none of the tags are "burlesque;" sometimes I have to be very specific to find the video I'm hoping to see. In my presentation about strip tease on film, I show a lot of clips and talk about how striptease is used to establish characters, develop plots, set the tone for environments, build up or drop viewer expectations, and so on, and what it reflects about our culture that such scenes can have those effects. For performers, I discuss how, in burlesque loops of actual performers from the mid-twentieth century, it can be difficult to tell how the performers were utilising the music; due to music rights concerns, the music on the clips is often dubbed ove...

Burlesque Submitted by Tanya Cheex!

While there is no doubt that the first half of the 20th century was the golden age of striptease burlesque, and that's the era I have the deepest appreciation for, I have a sneaky little passion for the late 1960s. It could be because that's about the time I was old enough to perceive glamour and aspire to it. I had an amazing Barbie doll--a Stacie, actually--that looked like Marilyn Monroe with quite the bouff. One of the movies that influenced my taste in glamourous women was the 1967 version of Casino Royale , for instance. Natalie Wood with what I consider a small but significant bouff: Ann-Margret, always a worthy idol, in "The Swinger": One of my all-time favorites (sadly, not embeddable, but not to be missed, and yes I've ordered a boa like that and a wig like that, I'm such a drag queen): The Silencers For more on the style my next number will be tributing, visit this amazing site: Beauty and the Bouffant A little style from flickr.com; ...