Dita Von Teese

By Ginger Valentine(noreply@blogger.com) New York City's Pinchbottom Burlesque hosted Lurid Pulp, an event promoting the new pulp novel, The Corpse Worse Pasties written by Jonathan Van Gieson, aka, Johnny Porkpie. The Dallas Burlesque Festival announced that applications are now being accepted for the second annual festiv...

By Kelly DiNardo(noreply@blogger.com) “You see a lot of burlesque-themed nightclubs opening, where there are girls dancing with boas, then the curtains close and that’s it. Burlesque was about striptease, and especially in America, a lot of the mainstream burlesque acts are taking all of the important elements about the his...

By Ginger Valentine(noreply@blogger.com) Christina Aguilera is reportedly turning to Dita Von Teese for some tips and advice on burlesque moves. It is not about g-strings and pasties. It's about female empowerment. No one is ever in lingerie. The film is sexy, but there's no stripping."

By Ginger Valentine(noreply@blogger.com) After a two-year absence, Dita Von Teese finally returns to L.A. with a sold-out show at the Avalon last week. Blackbookmag.com reports: Dr. Lucky, professor at both New York University and the New York School of Burlesque, breaks down the fundamental differences between burlesque and conv...

By Kelly DiNardo(noreply@blogger.com) Dita Von Teese is glad the Pussycat Dolls turned to music. She told Inked that "I think it's really great they decided to become a pop group and they've left the pseudo-burlesque alone. It drives me crazy when the media or groups like the Pussycat Dolls try to sanitize and take away the sexual a...

By Kelly DiNardo(noreply@blogger.com) Dita Von Teese singing a new note. The burlesque dancer plans to release a pop album. Rumor has it her first release will be a cover of Irving Berlin's Lazy. Burly fans have no need to worry. Dita promises she'll keep dancing as well. A burlesque theater opens in Denver.

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By Kelly DiNardo(noreply@blogger.com) Dita Von Teese isn't afraid to take it off. The burlesque queen, who has been teasing Paris, commented on the burlesque-style pop acts and Hollywood stars who make guest appearances in burlesque acts without taking their clothes off.

By Kelly DiNardo(noreply@blogger.com) Dita Von Teese shimmies into the Crazy Horse tonight. Can't make it to Paris? BlackBook offers up a virtual tease with a fantastic gallery of the burlesque queen and more. Minskys, the New York burlesque powerhouse, is open for business again. A musical inspired by its history, is at the Ahma...

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By Kelly DiNardo(noreply@blogger.com) Dita Von Teese teases Paris once again. Two years ago she emerged from a rhinestone-encrusted bubble bath as the first guest star at the Crazy Horse and now the burlesque queen plans to return for a two-week run. The new show will have more specially designed numbers, including two songs she...

By Kelly DiNardo(noreply@blogger.com) The tributes to Bettie Page continue. MTV points out all of the celebrities who were influenced by Page's style. Dita Von Teese shares a story about her encounter with Page. PopMatters calls Page "the new frontier." And the New York Times offers up an appraisal of Page's place in our sexualize...

By Kelly DiNardo(noreply@blogger.com) Dita Von Teese has sued Macmillan Publishers for using her image on Patti O'Shea's In Twilight's Shadow novel. The paranormal romance novel about demon hunting features her face in close up shot. Her attorney said the burlesque queen had "built her name and her career on her unique appeara...

By Kelly DiNardo(noreply@blogger.com) I usually describe burlesque as a form of live entertainment that was popularized in the 1930s and '40s in America. It was a bit like Vaudeville, which was a variety show, but in Burlesque, the comedy sketches were more sexual in nature, and in burlesque, the headliners were striptease art...

By Kelly DiNardo(noreply@blogger.com) Dita Von Teese twirls through several news stories as the burlesque queen continues to promoter her new line of lingerie for Wonderbra. She tells Monsters & Critics that even she has "unattractive" days. "Like any woman, I have days where I look in the mirror and think, 'How can anyone f...