Atlanta Strip Clubs: Southern Fried Burlesque Festival has curve appeal
Posted on March 9th, 2011 in Atlanta strip clubs
… By age 10, I decided I wanted to be a stripper when I grew up. I thought it would be glamorous — I didn’t know it was just boring men’s clubs.” She says that as a “tragically bored” professional stripper, “On stage, I’d be in my happy place, playing as close to old music as they would let me get away with, daydreaming that I was Gypsy Rose Lee.”
When she performed a classic-style burlesque show at a Bettie Page look-alike contest for Dragon*Con, complete with a matador costume and the mariachi-style music of Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass, she was inspired to pursue new stagings of traditional striptease. She began putting on shows locally in 1995, frequently at the Star Bar, but had trouble finding performers to join her on stage.
“Strippers didn’t like to do the shows then, because I couldn’t guarantee them even a fifth of what they’d make on a Friday night. I’d pay them in high-end costumes,” she says. Professional dancers, on the other hand, balked at the idea. “Convincing girls that they needed to look like drag queens and strip — they’d say, ‘You’re nuts!’”
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