Burlesque is hotter than ever, especially among a certain type of vintage-loving hipster in South Florida. So you can thank model, actress, designer, and, most important, burlesque star Dita Von Teese ...

Dita Von Teese grew up in a Michigan farming town as Heather Sweet, “just kind of a mediocre-looking girl,” she says, before she moved to Los Angeles and eventually revolutionized the burlesque world.

The meaning of the word burlesque might surprise you. While it’s often associated today with simple stripping, it more accurately describes a form of comedy, parody or extravagant theatricality. The ...

Audiences are invited to follow Clara and her Buttcracker on a wild hallucinogenic trip from a boring-AF corporate holiday party to the raucous and sultry Land of Sweets where they battle rats, save ...

The New York nights were sultry when H. L. Mencken coined the term "ecdysiast" to describe Gypsy Rose Lee, a star of Minsky’s Burlesque during the Great Depression. Lured by promises of the bump and ...

Third-year psychology student Belicia Tang founded the Bruin Burlesque club at the beginning of this quarter, hoping to instill confidence in students through the dance form. The club meets weekly for ...

“It’s a tease in the best sense,” says Jonny Porkpie, one of the hosts of the Brooklyn Burlesque Blitz. “It is to me the most exciting type of performance.” The neo-burlesque movement has taken a firm ...

You just came back from a date in the park with a guy you’ve been spending time with all summer. You really like him so tonight, you decided to surprise him by showing him a little bit of what’s to ...

Catherine D'Lish has had one of the most impressive careers in the show-it-all business. She's bumped and grinded her way to more than 30 titles in the more glamorous end of the striptease industry, ...