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Burlesque

Burlesque. What is Burlesque?. According to old timer Low comedy parody. A show which is spiced with female anatomy. Burlesque’s tow faces Low comedy(satire).

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Burlesque

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  1. Burlesque

  2. What is Burlesque? • According to old timer • Low comedy parody. • A show which is spiced with female anatomy. • Burlesque’s tow faces • Low comedy(satire). • Female anatomy, which features a lot of provocative dances, like hootchie-kootchie acts, Salome dancers, shimmy shakers, tassel dancers, strippers.

  3. Salome dance • Salome(Opera) • http://ppt.cc/7D9l • Tassel dance • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGwQ1si_wq8#t=2m11s • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTbWFb3clo8#t=0m15s

  4. How did Burlesque born? • English burlesque • puns and couplets • American producer’s version • No verbal wits but retained satire. • Comfortable and casual. • 19th’s Burlesque vs. contemporary Extravaganza and Spectacle • Spectacle and extravaganza focus on visual effect. • Burlesque referred to sex-and-comedy-travesty entertainment.

  5. Became “NGA” • In 1868, Michael Bennett Leavitt induced “candy butcher”. http://www.flickr.com/photos/funinthegym/531929609/ • Eastern wheel and Western wheel. • Wheel controls shows’ rotation. • Good organization => standardization, quality control, and the stability of performer’s employment. • Block burlesque’s growth.

  6. What is the most contribution of burlesque? • Answer: Comedians. • Weber and Fields • Successful example of burlesque humor: the heavy and the foil. • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFhcoRl796Q • The musical slapstick formula • Good comedy involve hurting people without causing harm. • “The greatest laughter, the greatest comedy is divided by a hair from the greatest tragedy.”

  7. Idea’s Perishment • Musical slapstick lack of proper place for practice, performance, and evaluation.

  8. Women’s role in burlesque • Notorious women. • Burlesque stars would pay the price of personal scandal to increase her fame. • Hula-hula dance • Applied audience participants. • Soubrettes vs. erotic dancers • More respectable, functional. • Do comedy routine.

  9. The decline of Burlesque • Today, burlesque is a dirty word representing coarse, and vulgar performance. • The cause: western wheel began to adopt dirty play=>abandoned comedy rudiment. • Stag: a guest or a costumer without female companion. • The good striptease routine • Parade • Peel: accompanied with the bump, and the grind. • Humor: tease. • Soon, the tease degraded into “show and tell”.

  10. The decline of Burlesque • The burlesque comics transformed into the star of Broadway revue. • Broadway revue also display naked body, but in respectable and artistic tableaus. • Survived burlesque theater linger out their life in the decaying estate of town. • Lesson: Never leave comedy behind.

  11. Thanks for your listening!

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