Kittie's post just reminded me... I watched this week's America's Got Talent on ITV's Catch-Up service the other day.
Did anyone else see the Hot Pink Feathers?
One of the women said something which sounded a bit weird. I've had a look on YouTube for the footage, but it doesn't appear to have been uploaded... and I'm not about to try and scan through the episode on catch-up because ITV catch-up is full of errors at the best of times...
She begun by outlining that the term 'burlesque' originates from roots meaning 'to parody', and then went on to say something along the lines of 'in modern times, burlesque is generally understood as a type of striptease...' and didn't elaborate. She clearly felt the need to include the 'in modern times' disclaimer and the historical introduction, but didn't really say whether she thought this modern association with striptease was good/bad/indifferent.
Perhaps she'd been nervous in front of the cameras, or perhaps she'd been edited and her statements moved around... but it just sat a bit funny with me... as though her description of burlesque is precisely the cause of the modern (mis-)understandings of burlesque she referred to - or the understanding that ' burlesque is classy stripping' (as so many people often try to tell me before they see my acts).
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