Burlesque is a fantastic media, this 'lecturer' really should learn about what it is about, how it supports women, not demeans them and leave the race card out of it completely! that's just disgusting!
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Ally Brannen
12 years ago
There are so many negative and unrealistic images of women in the media showing how woman are 'supposed to look'. However I have found through Burlesque you can allow for women to be happy with their bodies, to actually have fun and dance and be who they are. I think stopping these workshop is a form of oppression. it is a massive insult to say that the women attending them are going to go on to flaunt their bodies in a negative way.
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Daniel Quarterman
12 years ago
That lecturer needs to pipe down as a Scottish bagpiper might say.
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Emily Tarff
12 years ago
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Burlesque is empowering and liberating not objectifying to women . It gives us power over our bodies including the ability to show case our sex appeal in a way that is fun and good exercise . I've been doing burlesque forvyears and I don't think I'm any less of a feminist just because I enjoy this style of dance
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Elizabeth Sealey
12 years ago
If men can hold 'man auctions' then women should be allowed to be able to show that they're beautiful no matter what dude, through burlesque!!
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louise sowerby
12 years ago
The union is made up of people on power trips who think they are better than everyone else. they don't seem to realize that they work for the students not the other way round.
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Rachael Abbey
12 years ago
It's a joke that this is even necessary.
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Alexandra Moore
12 years ago
Burlesque is an art form, encouraging women to have confidence. The women have the choice to join and if they choose to embrace their femininity then let them participate in this workshop.
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Susan Burns
12 years ago
We are a University that promotes Equality, Diversity and the room for further knowledge and education. Burlesque is an art form of empowerment for both men and women. It is not demeaning and is a performance art that should be held with more esteem.
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Lisa Websdale
12 years ago
This is an opportunity for me and the others on my course to get to have fun and enjoy ourselves with something that isn't work related
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Lylia Jane
12 years ago
The ability to search for our own sexuality, to play safely with our identity and find our elegance/comedy/etc is so ESSENTIAL to growing healthy and happy that I cannot fathom why such an opportunity is under threat.
Burlesque is NOT teaching us to be strippers/whores/whatever else you want to call it, it is teaching us to be so comfortable in ourselves that it doesn't matter what people see or think of us!!
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Lylia Jane
12 years ago
Burlesque allows a self-definition of sexuality - something which is so essential to the confidence of everybody that it wouls be unacceptable to deny anybody that chance. As an art form, it allows women to be funny and sexy in ways that are NOT prescribed to them but rather discovered by each individual and the ability to find this sexuality/comedy/elegance/whatever it is each person looks for is to be treasured, not choked out.
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Joanna Barnes
12 years ago
Burlesque is a wonderful piece of performances art; some people have a gross misunderstanding that it objectifies women but it liberates them and allows them to take agency in their sexuality and how they are perceived by others.
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Meera Palmer
12 years ago
Burlesque is inspiring and brings out a confidence in me that I didn't know existed. There should be no opposition to it
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Ayesha Hussain
12 years ago
Burlesque is a hugely versatile art form which not only promotes (and helps women feel) self and body confidence, but has the ability to empower women in ways I have never seen. After even one session I have seen women look at themselves differently, be able to face the mirror, be able to hold their heads a little higher with the knowledge that THEY are in control.
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Melissa Campbell McCulloch
12 years ago
burlesque is empowering not degrading and the fact that this so called lectuter things it should be stopped because they feel it is inappropriate which is down right rediculious
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Paul Domaster
12 years ago
Burlesque is an art going back years, there is still a fallacy that it is just stripping by another name, it is not, it is a celebrated cabaret that is world wide. Saying that it is catering for a white , middle class audience is like stating that Ballroom dancing is for the upper class still, the figures on Celeb come dancing would disagree. The world has moved on, burlesque is for all, who enjoys it is down to the individuals, not how much they earn or where they originate from etc. If a performance is made up of white audience members then you can't penalise it for others not going.
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Michelle Hope
12 years ago
Redicuolus! Iv not meet one middle class person at all while attending various events. I'm also finding that burlesque is the least judgmental art form, excepting and encouraging anyone to too do it and enjoy it!....real women perform this art!! Iv seen all shapes and sizes, male and female performing amazing and somtimes mezmorising performances. I have also meet ladies that were once shy and conscious of there body's , that now fully embrace the chance to perform and come up with amazing performance ideas to entertain audiences. The taking off of cloths is the last thing this stuff is all about! I also know ladies that hold classes to help breast cancer fighters. Making them feel every bit the woman and empowering them once again!! How can any of this be a bad thing to promote is beyond me.
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Anonymous
12 years ago
As somebody who has performed with the company in question, and a man at that, I find it unacceptable that the university restricts on the creative freedom of our students. Burlesque is an art form that allows both genders to freely express themselves, encouraging self-expression and self-confidence. The stereotype of the art form as being ‘seedy’ or in some cases an ‘abomination’ diminishes this and I feel that there is a great deal of hypocrisy within the union as events such as ‘Man Auctions’, which create a seedy expression towards men, are highly publicized. Burlesque workshops do not have to become a performative state but instead they can be used as a technique of self-exploration, an internal process, instead of being externalized or performed to the public.
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Heidi Waddington
12 years ago
tread carefully those who try to ban our wonderful Art form. many have tried and failed and ended up with egg on their face and bad press in their hands. Google Hebden Bridge Burlesque Ban if you don't believe me.
Burlesque is a fantastic media, this 'lecturer' really should learn about what it is about, how it supports women, not demeans them and leave the race card out of it completely! that's just disgusting!
There are so many negative and unrealistic images of women in the media showing how woman are 'supposed to look'. However I have found through Burlesque you can allow for women to be happy with their bodies, to actually have fun and dance and be who they are. I think stopping these workshop is a form of oppression. it is a massive insult to say that the women attending them are going to go on to flaunt their bodies in a negative way.
That lecturer needs to pipe down as a Scottish bagpiper might say.
Burlesque is empowering and liberating not objectifying to women . It gives us power over our bodies including the ability to show case our sex appeal in a way that is fun and good exercise . I've been doing burlesque forvyears and I don't think I'm any less of a feminist just because I enjoy this style of dance
If men can hold 'man auctions' then women should be allowed to be able to show that they're beautiful no matter what dude, through burlesque!!
The union is made up of people on power trips who think they are better than everyone else. they don't seem to realize that they work for the students not the other way round.
It's a joke that this is even necessary.
Burlesque is an art form, encouraging women to have confidence. The women have the choice to join and if they choose to embrace their femininity then let them participate in this workshop.
We are a University that promotes Equality, Diversity and the room for further knowledge and education. Burlesque is an art form of empowerment for both men and women. It is not demeaning and is a performance art that should be held with more esteem.
This is an opportunity for me and the others on my course to get to have fun and enjoy ourselves with something that isn't work related
The ability to search for our own sexuality, to play safely with our identity and find our elegance/comedy/etc is so ESSENTIAL to growing healthy and happy that I cannot fathom why such an opportunity is under threat. Burlesque is NOT teaching us to be strippers/whores/whatever else you want to call it, it is teaching us to be so comfortable in ourselves that it doesn't matter what people see or think of us!!
Burlesque allows a self-definition of sexuality - something which is so essential to the confidence of everybody that it wouls be unacceptable to deny anybody that chance. As an art form, it allows women to be funny and sexy in ways that are NOT prescribed to them but rather discovered by each individual and the ability to find this sexuality/comedy/elegance/whatever it is each person looks for is to be treasured, not choked out.
Burlesque is a wonderful piece of performances art; some people have a gross misunderstanding that it objectifies women but it liberates them and allows them to take agency in their sexuality and how they are perceived by others.
Burlesque is inspiring and brings out a confidence in me that I didn't know existed. There should be no opposition to it
Burlesque is a hugely versatile art form which not only promotes (and helps women feel) self and body confidence, but has the ability to empower women in ways I have never seen. After even one session I have seen women look at themselves differently, be able to face the mirror, be able to hold their heads a little higher with the knowledge that THEY are in control.
burlesque is empowering not degrading and the fact that this so called lectuter things it should be stopped because they feel it is inappropriate which is down right rediculious
Burlesque is an art going back years, there is still a fallacy that it is just stripping by another name, it is not, it is a celebrated cabaret that is world wide. Saying that it is catering for a white , middle class audience is like stating that Ballroom dancing is for the upper class still, the figures on Celeb come dancing would disagree. The world has moved on, burlesque is for all, who enjoys it is down to the individuals, not how much they earn or where they originate from etc. If a performance is made up of white audience members then you can't penalise it for others not going.
Redicuolus! Iv not meet one middle class person at all while attending various events. I'm also finding that burlesque is the least judgmental art form, excepting and encouraging anyone to too do it and enjoy it!....real women perform this art!! Iv seen all shapes and sizes, male and female performing amazing and somtimes mezmorising performances. I have also meet ladies that were once shy and conscious of there body's , that now fully embrace the chance to perform and come up with amazing performance ideas to entertain audiences. The taking off of cloths is the last thing this stuff is all about! I also know ladies that hold classes to help breast cancer fighters. Making them feel every bit the woman and empowering them once again!! How can any of this be a bad thing to promote is beyond me.
As somebody who has performed with the company in question, and a man at that, I find it unacceptable that the university restricts on the creative freedom of our students. Burlesque is an art form that allows both genders to freely express themselves, encouraging self-expression and self-confidence. The stereotype of the art form as being ‘seedy’ or in some cases an ‘abomination’ diminishes this and I feel that there is a great deal of hypocrisy within the union as events such as ‘Man Auctions’, which create a seedy expression towards men, are highly publicized. Burlesque workshops do not have to become a performative state but instead they can be used as a technique of self-exploration, an internal process, instead of being externalized or performed to the public.
tread carefully those who try to ban our wonderful Art form. many have tried and failed and ended up with egg on their face and bad press in their hands. Google Hebden Bridge Burlesque Ban if you don't believe me.