01.08.11: Seattle Celebrates Gypsy’s 100th!
On January 8, 2011, The Swedish Housewife presents a special evening of song, dance, film and literature, in honor of the 100th birthday of Seattle’s homegrown striptease sensation, the one and only Gypsy Rose Lee. The Seattle Burlesque community and its supporters will honor Gypsy and the many artistic contributions
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Your donations support the preservation of burlesque history By making a tax-deductible donation to the Burlesque Hall of Fame, you honor the memory of Burlesque “as it was”: A raucous, ribald world of dancers, comics, musicians, impresarios and others who sought to entertain America’s masses through some of our nation’s
The Exotic Dancers League
There wouldn’t be a Burlesque Hall of Fame and Museum if there hadn’t first been the Exotic Dancers League. As theatrical burlesque began its decline after WWII and the main venue for striptease moved to the nightclubs, striptease performers found themselves increasingly detached from the support networks the burlesque circuits
Get Thee to a Mentor!
***Below are my personal opinions on mentorship. I have a big mouth, and this is my blog. Be warned.*** As I sit here, as I often do after reading my books and autobiographies about success and successful people, all I really wanted to share is: GET THEE TO A MENTOR!
Celebrating Gypsy Rose Lee, 1911-2011
“I wanted to point out how you are different from all the other strippers I have ever seen. Seeing them is something like getting a peep at a girl on a picnic. Perfectly ordinary experience. But to feel that you are seeing a princess take off her pants: That’s something
Boylesque in a Nutshell
I recently asked NY performer B.B. Heart to help me work on some new BIG articles. When brainstorming ideas, we soon discovered that we were most excited about at the moment were all of the boys in burlesque! So it made sense to make our first piece about that very
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Who are we? The Burlesque Hall of Fame (BHoF) is more than a museum, it is a living tribute to the raucous, ribald hybrid of music, comedy, theatre, and dance known as burlesque. From the art’s scandalous 19th century roots to the golden age of mid-century American striptease, the modern-day