At 82, Jean Schur did something most women wouldn't do at any age. The great-grandmother of five from Coram went onstage before a live audience in Las Vegas last year and stripped. Her signature fan ...

After the pandemic stalled her plans, local artist Velvet Thorn returned to a changing scene and set out to revive burlesque with glamour, humor and purpose.

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There's a lot more to burlesque than some scantily-clad shimmy and shake. For those on stage and in the audience, it's an art form built on a potent foundation of escapism and empowerment, as vital ...

April March once climbed out the window of a burlesque club while the irate owner, two pistols drawn, raged on the other side of a locked door. Another time, a deranged burlesque patron held a gun to ...

Video shot and produced by Jordan Vesey and Matt Ehrichs. "This is where it all happens," says Chicava HoneyChild as she opens the door of her dressing room and ushers us inside. She removes her floor ...

As women continue to fight for equal pay and the right to make choices about our bodies, the art form of burlesque boldly spotlights self-expression, providing a forum for owning and celebrating ...

Inside a small apartment, a group of women from Rebellion Burlesque crowded around each other, throwing friendly banter. Once their plans were finalized, one woman dumped an Ulta box of makeup on the ...

Kellita Maloof had been dancing since she was young. But she didn’t fully appreciate what dance had given her until she was recovering from a flare up of ulcerative colitis, an autoimmune disorder ...

Burlesque celebrates its talented stars and the renaissance of burlesque’s cheeky fun. By Kirk Honeycutt But this tale gets a vibrant makeover in writer-director Steve Antin’s toe-tapping, ...