Word: burlesqueã
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...original burlesque??with its masculine mockery, scandalously underdressed women, and working class reputation—fell out of favor...
...return farther up the coast in Boston, whose rich downtown theater district had, by the 1960s, devolved into “The Combat Zone”—a red light district of adult entertianment known for the sort of smutty striptease taht the world “burlesque?? has been known to bring to mind. With the very popular holiday burlesque “The Slutcracker” now selling out shows at the Somerville Theatre and burlesque performances popping up around the area—increasingly with the support of the American Repertory Theatre?...
...burlesque becomes a working class form, the rich, multi-dimensional nature of traditional burlesque??women performing satirical plays in rhinestone couplets... [and] dressing up as men—that begins to fall away,” Allen says, “and what you’re left with is the display of the sexualized female body in motion...
Working within both the classical and non-traditional dance communities, Orlosky supports the validity of burlesque??s performative artistic value, despite its display of bare chests and shoulders...
Those pasties—stickers carefully placed over a topless woman’s nipples during some types of performances, typically burlesque??would not be the last to come through that theater space this year. On December 4, the Boston Babydolls will fill the space with “V for Vixen,” a U.S.O.-style burlesque tribute to the nation’s armed forces, and talks are in the works of bringing more of the art form to the space on Arrow Street...