The human body is able to speak through the sensuality of its gestures, it also speaks and the art of strip-tease has since its beginnings evolved both in private and in public.
Summary
- First striptease in history
- Strip schools
- Striptease and staging
- Striptease and History
- The strip-tease wants to suggest
- Readings on striptease
First striptease in history
The first strip-tease in history is performed by Blanche Cavelli. The show was then called “Le Coucher d’Yvette”.
The scene represents a young woman at bedtime, slowly undressing in a suggestive manner and to background music ending up totally naked in front of an audience for whom the present situation was unknown until then.
The show was such a success that it experienced in its extension its cure of scandal.
Since 1894, strip-tease has evolved. Clubs specializing in this art of undressing were born in America before proliferating in Europe. The subject then becomes a real scandal.
It will leave dancers and cabarets of international renown.
Later, the strip-tease will finally become an art which, in its evolution, will develop according to different styles, different tendencies which will bring variable provocations.
The nude and sensuality have now come out of bars and gentlemen’s clubs to flood daily life to the point of inviting themselves into the intimacy of the couple.
strip schools
There are now schools that specialize in teaching striptease and its variations.
strip-tease: stripping
It also gives advice on make-up, hairstyle and look suggestions, seduction lessons and sensual choreography.
striptease: shade in vogue
During shade in vog’, we learn to dance by combining arm, head and abdominal movements. An undulating work of the torso which allows the sensuality of each part of the body to flourish.
striptease: pole dance
Pole dancing classes require more training, long reserved for striptease club dancers, the pole mixes dance and exercise with the vertical bar.
Pole dancing is quite a difficult sport and the first inversions can be scary.
For pole teachers there is no age limit and no conditions are required, it is practice and rigor that softens and strengthens the body.
Strip-tease and staging
For many, the striptease suggests a certain sexual liberation of women. For others, it is a demonstration of loneliness and sexual misery that is reflected in our current societies…
For the past few years, striptease has been seducing, beyond the clichés!
Striptease and History
The striptease has its ancient history, which could be traced back to the mythical Salomé and her “dance of the seven veils”. Immodest, lascivious and cruel dancer, who by her charms obtained from King Herod, the head of Saint John the Baptist.
The appearance of this art in performance halls dates back to the end of the 19th century, with in particular the liberation of morals.
In England first of all then in the United States, the burlesque mixing erotism and comedy knows a real success.
In France, it will be the emblematic place of the Moulin-Rouge which will drive Paris crazy with its “weighted indecency” dancers and the very popular French CanCan, a dance invented in London!
The strip-tease wants to suggest
From the 1980s, striptease preferred suggestion to exhibition. A parody or diversion, that even men will adopt with the Chippendales or in the cult English comedy The Full Monty.
Yes, striptease is more enthusiastic and artistic than ever!
After designing, among other things, the Olympic Games ceremony in Albertville, the brilliant Philipe Decouflé took over the torch of artistic creation at Crazy Horse Paris.
Alain Platel, Wim Vandekeybus and so many other choreographers from the world of dance put on shows that include professional strippers and strippers.
Erotic dance is placed in a new light, far from the usual snapshot.
Since Nijinsky’s beginnings in 1912, striptease has never ceased to liberate the body and break down the barriers of modesty and its taboos.
Vaslav Nijinski star dancer of the Russian ballets and of Polish origin. He invents for his personal use, his own dance notation system. We owe him in particular the interpretations of Scheherazade, the Specter of the rose or in Petrushka.
Readings on striptease
Strip-tease, l’art de l’agacement by Laurent de Sutter
Le corps et la danse by Philippe Noisette
La muse de mauvaise réputation : danse et érotisme by Philippe Verrière