The 2008 New York Burlesque Festival

Shows like this are for everyone. My gay male friends come see me perform, my bi male and female friends come see me perform, my straight male friends come see me perform, and my gay female friends come see me perform.

Hell, my parents come see me perform, and my brother and boyfriend play the piano and the bass WHILE I perform.

You clearly have no understanding of what burlesque is about. Try researching it before making such a blanket and uneducated comment.

Today is the first time I heared about Burlesque.....what have I been doing all these years......?......Jesus.

My initial reaction was that grantall and fuxia17 were being dismissive of this show untll I checked out Crazy Horse for myself. Wow! What a difference.

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I love it SOOO MUCH!!!!!

It was the best! Big smile on my face, like this :D

YAY! Angie Pontani! Saw her at my very first burlesque show!

hope to god I can attend next year - as a performer ;-)

Beautiful!

I can't wait for next years festival! This is great piece.

Oh, I wished I'd been there! Fantastic! I think about the history of burlesque, everyone would agree that it's got it's theatrical origins in Europe, but spread over and was reinvented and revived in the USA, so I don't think you can really tell where it comes from. Also, the burlesque moves were inspired by everything exotic from hula to belly dance, and absorbed moves from gogo dancing and ballet, so I think it's a mix of all beautiful things whatsoever.