Burlesque? Not in SanFran: BOYLESQUE!
I’m going to my 20 year H.S. reunion in a month, and it amuses me that under “hobbies” I get to put “Burlesque Performer.” It’s very true; I spent the latter half of travel on thursday night choreographing a new number for the Peach Pies, where I get to sing “All I Care About” from Chicago. And it’s a great, great feeling to be back in that frame of mind, scribbling stick figures and arrows and lyrics.
But of course it caught my eye when reading the ROOT magazine feed that in San Francisco, they’ve started a Boylesque.
“SF Boylesque seeks to bring back vintage burlesque in the decadence of the Weimar Era, a time of high-flying artistic freedom underscored by Expressionism…Our Goal is to reinstate sensuality and humanity into a far too often technologically-isolated culture.”
I’m not so sure that the Weimar era was as much about freedom as much as “Well, it’s all %$#@ed, might as well have fun before the Apocalypse” but sensuality and humanity are certainly noble goals. Next time I’m in the City that Never Sleeps I hope to catch them…
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