tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1074472538052710757.post46780625610832409..comments2024-03-21T21:23:59.119-04:00Comments on Jo Weldon's New York School of Burlesque: The Return of the Return of BurlesqueJo Weldon's New York School of Burlesque Bloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16757310890319782743noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1074472538052710757.post-84649065231754531072008-05-20T13:40:00.000-04:002008-05-20T13:40:00.000-04:00I want to add that I really enjoyed the closing pa...I want to add that I really enjoyed the closing paragraph: 'Whatever the venue, 21st-century burlesque is where Weimar meets Coney Island. You can never be sure whether you’re a cutting-edge cultural mandarin basking in the irony, or a classic pigeon, ogling the flesh and shedding your cash as if it were feathers in molting season.'<BR/><BR/>Considering that the roots of the word "ecdysiast" have to do with molting, this is particularly charming to me.Jo Weldon's New York School of Burlesque Bloghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16757310890319782743noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1074472538052710757.post-74542486552638525672008-05-19T14:36:00.000-04:002008-05-19T14:36:00.000-04:00Oh, I thought the article had lots of great stuff ...Oh, I thought the article had lots of great stuff in it and was fabulous for burlesque and for many of my friends in burlesque and indirectly for me for sure. I'm just thinking that it might be interesting to frame it as being more than just a revival, but an actual new phase of burlesque--as being not a reference to or a recreation of burlesque, but as it is, itself, actual burlesque.Jo Weldon's New York School of Burlesque Bloghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16757310890319782743noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1074472538052710757.post-63540407839252871062008-05-19T13:30:00.000-04:002008-05-19T13:30:00.000-04:00It never went away.andIt has not ever gone mainstr...It never went away.<BR/><BR/><BR/>and<BR/><BR/>It has not ever gone mainstream.<BR/><BR/>So,<BR/><BR/>fashionable people keep "finding" it.<BR/><BR/>They discover it like <BR/>Columbus "found" the Americas. How nice of them to share their find...buahahaha<BR/>oh well, just shrug and enjoy the free publicity.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com