num_pages: 216
description: What is burlesque? Who better to ask than burlesque performers themselves? With this question in mind the author traveled over 14000 miles across the United States visiting todays burlesque performers photographing them in their homes and asking What does burlesque mean to you? Their answers and 104 accompanying portraits may surprise you. For these performers burlesque is so many things including fun and empowerment on stage an escape from lifes doldrums a fantasy a career. This book also presents a study in contrasts between the public persona of each performer and that performers private life.
language: English
title: It's All That Glitters: Portraits of Burlesque Performers in Their Homes
publisher: Schiffer Publishing, Ltd.