“When you do the shimmy,” explains Lola Van Ella, St. Louis burlesque dancer and owner of Van Ella Studios, “think of it as you have two elevator buttons right in front of your shoulders and you’re ...

Jun. 14—Anna Smith Higgs was just 24 years old when she suffered from a stroke on Christmas Day in 2004, just a month after the birth of her son, Henry. Devastated, she would spend the next five ...

Video shot and produced by Jordan Vesey and Matt Ehrichs. “This is where it all happens,” says Chicava HoneyChild as she opens the door of her dressing room and ushers us inside. She removes her floor ...

MANHATTAN (CN) - A model and burlesque performer claims The Learning Annex hired her to teach a burlesque class and defamed her by posting a video of one of her lessons on the Internet, under the ...

Learning to Be Naked reveals the healing, transformative power of burlesque. It’s hard to imagine a more vulnerable experience than getting naked on stage–and for some it is precisely this experience ...

FAIRBANKS — A Fairbanks production company is shaking up higher education with a sassy back to school burlesque show. The performance, Burly Q 101, is at 10 p.m. Friday at The Blue Loon, 2999 Parks ...

A New York City burlesque performer has filed a lawsuit against the Learning Annex saying it misrepresented her in advertising as a porn actress. Tara Lee Heffner, of Brooklyn, says that after she ...