Now available at Project MUSE - Canadian Theatre Review 158, "Burlesque" issue

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Canadian Theatre Review
Volume 158, Spring 2014
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Burlesque
Edited by Shelley Scott and Reid Gilbert

CTR#158 offers an extended conversation about burlesque in Canada, from archival photos and historical contextualization to the most current interpretations of what neo-burlesque can be and what it can do. The audacious urban experience of Montreal lives beside the off-the-grid exuberance of Lasqueti Island. The details of costume construction in ancouver are considered alongside legal definitions that dictatecostumes in Calgary.
The issue offers an in-depth exploration of Toronto's Operation Snatch, formerly The Scandelles, with two articles that chart the company's trajectory from burlesque to political cabaret, a Scandelles script, and an interview with founder Alexandra Tigchelaar. Also exclusively online, Adriana Disman has curated a dialogue among socially conscious performers using neo-burlesque for social change. Whether conveying the experience of a male burlesque performer or drawing parallels with the community-building appeal of roller derby, the authors in this issue dissect, interrogate, and expand the definitions of burlesque.
This issue contains:
Teasing, Transgressing, Defining-Broadening the Spectrum of Sexy
Shelley Scott, Reid Gilbert
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Burlesque is the term used throughout this issue, although the word meant something very different before and after the year 1868, when Lydia Thompson and her British Blondes made their New York debut. Read more<http://bit.ly/PMctr158a>
In Search of a Different History: The Remains of Burlesque in Montreal
Joanna Mansbridge
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Taking Elin Diamond's and Rebecca Schneider's recent work in drama and performance studies as a starting point, this essay looks at two eras of burlesque in Montreal-the 1940s-50s and 2012-tracing a shifting landscape of popular entertainment, politics, religion, and social attitudes toward female sexuality. Read more<http://bit.ly/PMctr158b>
"Well, Melody, what is your skirt gonna turn into now?": An Interview with Melody Mangler
Ines Ortner
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Melody Mangler is a highly acclaimed burlesque performer, teacher, costumer, and writer from Vancouver. In 2009, the Burlesque Hall of Fame recognized her talents with the "Best Debut" Award for her outstanding performance piece Venus in Spring. Read more<http://bit.ly/PMctr158c>
Backwoods Burlesque: Off-the-Grid Tsk Tsk
Bronwyn Preece
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The Tsk Tsk Revue has become an annual one-night event-perhaps now more accurately described as a phenomenon- in the 350-peopled, entirely off-the-grid island of Lasqueti, BC, developing into a Gulf islands' touring show. Teeming with brazen backwoods humour and localized, alternatively-powered erotics, the Tsk Tsk Revue has rightfully earned a unique place on the national burlesque scene. Read more<http://bit.ly/PMctr158d>
Stuck to the Pole: Raven Virginia and the Redefinition of Burlesque in Calgary
Jamie Dunsdon
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Raven Virginia thinks of burlesque and exotic dance as "sisters who come from the same rich and beautiful history" but cautions against confusion between the two forms. Read more<http://bit.ly/PMctr158e>
Are You Staring at the Size of My Gimmick? Applying Burlesque Conventions to a Different Anatomy <http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/canadian_theatre_review/v158/158.whitehead.html>
Jay Whitehead
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A former "boylesque" performer explores his personal experiences within the Toronto-based male burlesque company Boylesque TO, examining the presentation of male bodies in traditional and contemporary burlesque. Read more<http://bit.ly/PMctr158f>
Neo-Burlesque and the Resurgence of Roller Derby: Empowerment, Play, and Community
David Owen
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In both neo-burlesque and roller derby, there is a two-way communication between the audience (both male and female) and the performers/athletes that celebrates what the women (and sometimes men) on stage and on the track are doing. Read more<http://bit.ly/PMctr158g>
Extinguishing the "Temptation of Monetary Inducements": The State Regulation and Stigmatization of Adult Entertainment Recruiters on Post-secondary Campuses in British Columbia
Becki Ross, Oralia Gómez-Ramírez
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In this article, we explore the directive issued in August 2012 by the Minister of Advanced Education in British Columbia to ban "aggressive" adult entertainment recruiters from campus job fairs. Read more<http://bit.ly/PMctr158h>
Re-Vamping History: Neo-Burlesque and Historical Tradition
Alexis Butler
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Considering two performance trajectories that have emerged from the varied dramaturgical history of the burlesque genre, epitomized by superstar Dita Von Teese and by the Toronto collective The Scandelles, this article demonstrates how neo-burlesque can usefully be divided into that which approaches burlesque as a noun and that which deploys it as a verb. Read more<http://bit.ly/PMctr158i>
An Interview with Alex Tigchelaar, Formerly Sasha Van Bon Bon of The Scandelles
Alexis Butler
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Alex Tigchelaar, formerly Sasha Van Bon Bon of the Toronto neo-burlesque collective The Scandelles, discusses the early days of Toronto neo-burlesque, her classy vagina, social renegades & queering history, sobriety, and other stops on her journey towards artistic confidence. Read more<http://bit.ly/PMctr158j>
"You're Just a Stripper that Came Out of a Time Machine": Operation Snatch's Queer World-Making and Sex-Working Class Politics
Sarah Mann
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This essay explores the queer world of Toronto's Operation Snatch (formerly known as The Scandelles), focusing in particular on two of their productions related to sex work, Les Demimondes and Neon Nightz. Read more<http://bit.ly/PMctr158k>
Script
Neon Nightz <http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/canadian_theatre_review/v158/158.tigchelaar.html>
Alexandra Tigchelaar
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Neon Nightz examines paradoxical notions of worship and intimacy in the sacred yet profane places in which we explore the ideologically linked emotions of desire and shame. It asks the question, is the strip club so different from the holy confession? When oppression, rather than necessity, is viewed as the mother of invention, what do people invent to subvert its tyranny? Read more<http://bit.ly/PMctr158l>
Views and Reviews
Editorial
Jenn Stephenson
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Miss Toronto Acts Back: Observing and Thinking in Montage
Heather Fitzsimmons Frey<http://muse.jhu.edu/results?section1=author&search1=Heather%20Fitzsimmons%20Frey>
http://bit.ly/PMctr158n
Chika Modum. identity: borrowed, enlarged, projected, traced and modified
Richard Smolinski<http://muse.jhu.edu/results?section1=author&search1=Richard%20Smolinski>
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(Dis)Embodied Authority in White Rabbit, Red Rabbit
Kelsey Jacobson<http://muse.jhu.edu/results?section1=author&search1=Kelsey%20Jacobson>
http://bit.ly/PMctr158p
Online Feature
The Politics of Burlesque: A Dialogue Among Dancers
Adriana Disman<http://muse.jhu.edu/results?section1=author&search1=Adriana%20Disman>
http://bit.ly/PMctr158q
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