Bootstraps Making Waves on the Airwaves...

[Bootstraps Burlesque]

Cherry Oh! and Corky Bordeaux made an appearance on the local news to help promote the Moulin Rouge Gala and, well, seems it was a bit scandalous. Read on to see what Cherry has to say about the art of the tease on local tv...

Woman Reveals Hands on Morning News
Today I learned that I am not allowed to remove my gloves on the morning news. The problem is that some middle schooler, between the crunch of cheerios, might have witnessed my strip from elbow to index finger and gotten the idea that such lurid behavior is acceptable.
Hands laid bare from the beginning do not hold the same mystery as hands swathed in inky satin, revealed at a slow pace. Although at first I was disappointed that my planned glove peel was deemed inappropriate when they had originally requested some high kicks can can style (bare hands compared to baring my most intimate article of clothing?), after some thought I found that they actually had a great deal of wisdom on the matter. They understood the power of suggestion, this slow reveal of velvet hands, red dipped, warm moisture of anticipation in sponge tips. On the map of the body, if one were to mark the distance of each extremity to the most sexual points of the body, hands would seem the furthest. Yet, their appeal is more in their quality's of action. Hands are not passive lovers. They are the verbs of the bodies erotic essays.

So often I hear "can you teach this burlesque class or do this burlesque show...but not strip?"

What if I strip out of my carhartt but keep on my bibs and snow boots? What if I make it more suggestive than an Andrew Blake film (Corkster that was for you)? What then?

-Cherry Oh!