Like the name implies, nerdlesque — a portmanteau of “nerd” and “burlesque” — combines fandom with the art of striptease. I compare it to fanfiction because we are doing more than stripping out of a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The world of burlesque has changed immensely since Dita hit the scene, but the self-described “unlikely sex symbol” and ...

I dreaded turning 30, worrying that, at the stroke of midnight, I would go from rich in youth to aesthetically broke. Those who had hit the milestone before me offered predictions of what was to come.

We're always on the lookout for life-proof makeup, and nobody knows the importance of budge-proof makeup quite like a burlesque dancer. Calamity Chang is an in-demand performer and producer in New ...

I could feel sweat dripping down every crevice. For my burlesque show, Nice Jewish Girls Gone Bad, I was cloaked in a Hasidic costume, a man’s full itchy wool suit, fake payot, and a fur hat — all ...

LAS VEGAS (KABC) -- Dita Von Teese is known as the Queen of Burlesque. And now she's taking her talent to Las Vegas to star in her very first residency. Her new show ...

As we continue our #BringTheLove campaign, this month Relationships Editor Charreah K. Jackson explores burlesque dancing to help embrace her body—and how all women can do the same Breathe into your p ...

Burlesque performance is not striptease. Neither is it a drag show. In the case of "Wild Encounters," a burlesque show on stage Oct. 6 at The Meteor in Bentonville, it's "a fresh take on a ...

CHICAGO -- Ann Weinert has been a performer since she was 15. But the Chicagoan became enamored with the art of American burlesque as an adult in 2007, and her perception of performing in front of ...

Not since Gypsy Rose Lee has there been as big a name in burlesque since Dita Von Teese, who starting in 1992 almost singlehandedly revived the old-fashioned art form of striptease with her elaborate ...