Modern Burlesque is performed predominantly by females and to a predominantly female audience (however, men are both welcome to perform and to watch).
Young women are growing up in a society that dictates how they should look, what they should wear and even how they should feel and behave. With mounting pressure being piled upon women in an increasingly media-centric society, the female body is subject to more scrutiny than ever.
Burlesque fights against this by empowering and celebrating the female form in all its glory, and allows women to become empowered sexual subjects in control of their own bodies, rather than a subject of the male gaze.
The sheer fact that performers remove their clothes, parodies the social stigma about the privacy of the female naked body and allows women to be proud of themselves, no matter what shape, size, age or colour!
Burlesque is a spectacle that uses comedy, theatre, dance and intricate props and costumes to ultimately tell a story. Within Burlesque, you can be whoever you want to be, without being judged.
Please explain to me why any of this is a negative thing?
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Eve Mace
12 years ago
Although I've never been to this workshop, I cannot see how it should be stopped just because one lecturer thought something was wrong. It's a matter of women's self-worth, not whether a single he/she agrees with it.
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Anonymous
12 years ago
Don't cancel this! I really need this as a confidence boost and I enjoy trying new things
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jackie burgess
12 years ago
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Maybe you need to come watch a class...You might understand it is all clean healthy fun, iam a single mum of 3, this is the ONLY place i ever get to go on my own..I love my thursday dance class and it has bought me a whole new lease of life..Im not just a mum..iam jackie to.
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Michael
12 years ago
Burlesque is fun, stop bullying them
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Courtney Hate
12 years ago
Isn't the point of Women's Committee to cater for all women? Let them dance!
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EA
12 years ago
It's a person's right to choose how they empower themselves.
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Isabel
12 years ago
Give those women the possibility to love and feel their own body.
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Lance
12 years ago
I just want to dance.
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Charlotte
12 years ago
This is ridiculous, burlesque is beautiful!
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Anonymous
12 years ago
This is ridiculous.
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Sarah
12 years ago
Why shouldn't we love our bodies.
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Shawn Greenleaf
12 years ago
Don't censor artistic freedom!
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Becca Taylor
12 years ago
Sorry Kitty! I misread an article on burlesque concerning it's origins but can acknowledge why some believe it to be misogynistic and hope to challenge that perception. - Nat.
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Andreya Young
12 years ago
Burlesque gives you confidence whilst making new friends and doing wonders for self esteem .
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bexy boo tiful
12 years ago
burlesque is the best thing that ever happened to me, it has improved my confidence and self esteem no end, dont knock it until u try it!
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James Hall
12 years ago
The Uni offcials are stupid
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Paul Williams
12 years ago
It's the 21st century. Get with it, Hull.
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Anonymous
12 years ago
why ban it. It's tastefully done and people love watching those that have the art to perform. leave burlesque along.
Modern Burlesque is performed predominantly by females and to a predominantly female audience (however, men are both welcome to perform and to watch). Young women are growing up in a society that dictates how they should look, what they should wear and even how they should feel and behave. With mounting pressure being piled upon women in an increasingly media-centric society, the female body is subject to more scrutiny than ever. Burlesque fights against this by empowering and celebrating the female form in all its glory, and allows women to become empowered sexual subjects in control of their own bodies, rather than a subject of the male gaze. The sheer fact that performers remove their clothes, parodies the social stigma about the privacy of the female naked body and allows women to be proud of themselves, no matter what shape, size, age or colour! Burlesque is a spectacle that uses comedy, theatre, dance and intricate props and costumes to ultimately tell a story. Within Burlesque, you can be whoever you want to be, without being judged. Please explain to me why any of this is a negative thing?
Although I've never been to this workshop, I cannot see how it should be stopped just because one lecturer thought something was wrong. It's a matter of women's self-worth, not whether a single he/she agrees with it.
Don't cancel this! I really need this as a confidence boost and I enjoy trying new things
Maybe you need to come watch a class...You might understand it is all clean healthy fun, iam a single mum of 3, this is the ONLY place i ever get to go on my own..I love my thursday dance class and it has bought me a whole new lease of life..Im not just a mum..iam jackie to.
Burlesque is fun, stop bullying them
Isn't the point of Women's Committee to cater for all women? Let them dance!
It's a person's right to choose how they empower themselves.
Give those women the possibility to love and feel their own body.
I just want to dance.
This is ridiculous, burlesque is beautiful!
This is ridiculous.
Why shouldn't we love our bodies.
Don't censor artistic freedom!
Sorry Kitty! I misread an article on burlesque concerning it's origins but can acknowledge why some believe it to be misogynistic and hope to challenge that perception. - Nat.
Burlesque gives you confidence whilst making new friends and doing wonders for self esteem .
burlesque is the best thing that ever happened to me, it has improved my confidence and self esteem no end, dont knock it until u try it!
The Uni offcials are stupid
It's the 21st century. Get with it, Hull.
why ban it. It's tastefully done and people love watching those that have the art to perform. leave burlesque along.
My sister loves it so how is it a bad thing!!!