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GIRL NEXT DOOR - A Pole Dance Soirée

GIRL NEXT DOOR - a pole dance soirée combines the sensuality of pole dance with the fanciful medium of theater to create a new aesthetic: artistic pole dance.

Rag Dolls: Burlesque Strips Down to Its Origins in LA

Once upon a time, burlesque was a well-loved and relatively respectable form of American theater that incorporated humor, eroticism and elaborate costumes.  But post-Pussycat Dolls, when any group of women dancing in their underwear now seems to qualify as a burlesque troupe, the art has long lost its mystique, particularly in Los Angeles.
Amanda Marquardt, aka [...]

Hollywood + Silverlake, With a Dash of Spain

Take a romantic Spanish hideaway and tuck it where glamorous Hollywood meets indie Silverlake (aka Sunset Junction), and you get (equally) kitschy, beautiful and hip L.A. landmark, El Cid.
Founded at the turn of the century by film legend D.W. Griffith, El Cid is a local institution with a rich history and only-at-Sunset-Junction vibe.
The venue, now [...]

No Guilt Nudity - Los Angeles Burlesque

Beginning in the early 18th century, the term burlesque was used throughout Europe to describe musical works in which serious and comic elements were juxtaposed or combined to achieve a grotesque effect. Early theatrical burlesque was a form of musical and theatrical parody in which a serious or romantic opera or piece of classical theatre [...]