Las Vegas weekly: Burlesque edition
This year the country's best burlesque performer Athabasca River to a goat farm in Helendale, California, where they would dance poolside among friends in the desert sun. Tasseled reunification, its boas, G-strings and elaborate hairdos in the annual Miss exotic world Pageant, where legends were honoured and new dancers are exploited to the underground community of modern burlesque.
Then came the moving trucks, the new digs, the bright lights. Miss exotic world is headed to Las Vegas, where it is now in its sixth year and where the burlesque Hall of Fame weekend has exploded into a four-day shock, and grind festival with earlier and contemporary artists, contests, showcases, awards and honours, master classes, pinup photo shots and lots of vintage cars kitsch.
You can read more in this week's Las Vegas weekly main article modern burlesque State by clicking here. The online version posted on our sister site, lasvegasweekly.com, includes photos, a video profile and take on the editor in Chief.
Click here for an introduction to some of Las Vegas favorite artists.
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