The Anatomy of Burlesque DVD

While striptease is burlesque’s most modern stick in the eye, the tradition is ancient and subversive. Fine art has always belonged to the rich, but burlesque is the revenge of the poor – a thumb to the nose, a fist to the fates, an expression of doubt that proves that hope exists. Of all the arts, burlesque may offer the truest likeness of ourselves, the real picture in Oscar Wilde’s ‘Picture of Dorian Grey’ – grotesque, libidinous, fleshy, irreverent, and immensely watchable.