Gregarious Expressions

I love this idea of "teaching women not to fear the beauty in other women or themselves."

It is such a needed lesson.

And do see the vintage photo of Satan’s Angel in this story. Sweet!

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A New Queen of Burlesque :: offBeat :: Louisiana and New Orleans Online Music Resource
The winner and new Queen of Burlesque Coco Lectric gave a performance that caused goosebumps. She strutted across the stage in a gorgeous red gown like she owned Harrah’s, and treated her feather boa like a lover. Having performed with Dita Von Teese, this woman knows her body and knows how to be as sexy as imaginable.

After being crowned, Coco said, “It was an honor just to be among the cast, to perform with Catherine D’Lish and two of my best friends. I want to continue to make a living doing what I love, and continue teaching women not to fear the beauty in other women or themselves.”

Based on an unproduced script written by French actor/director Jacques Tati in 1956, this new animated film by Sylvain Chomet (The Triplets of Bellville) looks absolutely enchanting. 

According to the official US website for the film, it is scheduled for release in New York and Los Angeles on Christmas Day. Hope it does well or we in Northeast Pa. could be waiting a long time — as was the case with the Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus last year.

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I hadn’t realized sub-genres were localized. VERY interesting.

Also in this article Betty Pickle says neo-burlesque performers are performance artists. That makes a lot of sense.

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Betty Pickle Explains Why Miami-Style Burlesque Involves A Little Blood – Miami Art – Cultist
Are there genres within burlesque?

They are definitely genres of burlesque. To give you a very general overview, L.A. is known for fringe and glamour kind of stuff, Vegas is known for cabaret, glitzy, showgirl-y stuff, New Orleans is either very classic traditional or spooky goth burlesque, and New York is where the cutting edge or experimental stuff normally happens.

What a great read! Jay Gabler’s response to this play is a multi-layered, thought-provoking conversation that inadvertently makes a case for why art is an essentail tool to aid us in processing complicated ideas in the first place.

I have a greater chance of winning the lottery than this show has to be seen in Northeast Pennsylvania yet we have middle-aged couple dining at Olive Gardens confused by young white gangsta wannabees. 

Read this story.

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"The Scottsboro Boys" at the Guthrie: Dancing with demons | Twin Cities Daily Planet
To revive minstrelsy for 21st-century entertainment means treading between two gaping chasms of risk. On the one hand, a postmodern approach that treated the form with too much ironic remove would be offensive. On the other hand, an overly cautious production that treated the form as a museum piece, like a Klan hood hanging in the Smithsonian, would have a hard time justifying its own existence. Why revive racist entertainment just to tell us what we already know about it?

Another blogger steps forth to define what burlesque was and is today, and more importantly perhaps, what it isn’t.

Agreed: It is not the Pussycat Dolls.

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Seattle Times » What is Burlesque?
There are varying definitions, but burlesque was basically a comic imitation of a serious literary, political or artistic form, at least in the beginning. These shows used comedy, parody, sexuality and music to defy the established and/or conventional way of looking at things.