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Originally Posted by lolilolita
Burlesque dancers represent cofidence and are a classic provocative, but is there a way one should dress during a performance and outsie of the performance? Do dancers always have to keep up their charm?
And what would be an "ideal" BMI for a dancer to have? I know being voluptuous is sexy in the art, but I have been seeing a lot of skinny dancers lately.
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Hi Lolilolita
Basically the answer to these questions is NO!!!
There isn't a way one SHOULD dress during a performance and outside of the performance.
Performers do NOT have to keep up their charm (actually not totally sure what you mean by charm, so I'm interpreting this as do you have to do glamour 24/7)
And there absolutely absolutely absolutely IS NOT an ideal BMI (I hate that blooming abbreviation) for performers to have.
Burlesque is for everyone and anyone, short, tall, fat (and no this isn't a taboo word, it's just a descriptive word, I am fat and there is nothing wrong with that word, it's just what I am), slim, middling, young (provided you're over 18 if you want to perform), old, female, male, cd, transgendered, black, white EVERYONE.
What you are does not matter - it's what you do with what you've got and who you are.
You totally got it right with your first statement - if you can be confident about who you are, and what you're doing on stage - then you can do burlesque.
And you can dress however you want - a voluptuous, hollywood glamourpuss to an octopus, to all the gorlesque performers, virtually every animal going, to an angle-grinding smurf, oh there are too many different ways you can dress to list - just type burlesque into youtube, sit back and enjoy (and be amazed)
There are various threads on the forums discussing whether we should live glamour 24/7, and the answer to this is no we don't HAVE to and some people here on the forums do manage it, some don't, and some don't want to - they like having the difference, so it feels extra special when they do dress up.
But here's a thread AliX started a while back where loads of people suggested ways to put a little glamour or burlesque into everyday life:
Putting a little glamour or burlesque into everyday life
Hopes this helps.
Just chill - there isn't a way anything has to be done - be yourself, or the way you want to be and have lots of fun with it!
