Scandalous Exotic Dancers

[Lady Cop]

of the 1890s.

lots of photos at link:

http://www.retronaut.co/2012/01/exotic-dancers-1890s/

[Duchess]

I haven't got time now but I'll be back to talk about that first costume.

[SIXFOOTERsez]

Thick Bitches, I like the kind I can bench press

[FAHQTOO]

Is there such a thing as death by corset? Thank God we don't have to wear that shit in the 21^st century.

[Lady Cop]

i would have loved to see the heyday of Harlem and the Cotton Club!

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daily mail
One of the original dancers at a world famous jazz club in which some of the biggest names in music have performed has died.

Juanita Boisseau, who starred at the legendary Cotton Club in New York, died last week at the age of 100.

She began performing at the notorious Harlem club - which was a white-only establishment - in the early 1930s.

It saw her work with some of the Jazz world's most famous musicians including Lena Horne, Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong.

The Cotton Club - which was run by the gangster Dutch Schultz, was her base until she moved to France and became famous during Paris' Jazz Age.

However, she eventually returned to Harlem where she lived in an apartment a few streets from the corner where the Cotton Club stood.

The club was open from 1923 to 1940 - notably through the Prohibition Era.

Despite many of the greatest African-American entertainers ever to have performed at the club, it was a white-only establishment.

Among those who performed at the Cotton Club are Cab Calloway, Ella Fitzgerald, Fats Waller, Dizzy Gillespie and Billie Holiday.

Chorus girls at the club wore skimpy outfits and were expected to be at least feet 6 inches tall, light-skinned and under the age of 21.

She wrote: 'I wanted to be rare, I wanted to be noticed, I wanted to be exotic as a Cotton Club chorus girl, and I wanted to be obvious as the most flamboyant hooker on the street. I just wanted to be.'

Ms Boisseau was the subject of a documentary which was released in 2002 called Cotton Club Girl.









The club was open from 1923 to 1940. This picture was taken in 1937 and shows American bandleader and singer Cab Calloway leading an orchestra during a New Year's Ball

[Disciple]

LC, where do you FIND this shit?

Starting to worry about you ....

[Jimbone]

LC is an old soul from another age. I can totally relate.

[pspence]

Extremely cool pics LC...blows my mind to look at those windows into the past like that....

[Lady Cop]

FABULOUS!!

Feathers galore are up for sale in Paris this weekend, as the extravagant headdresses, boas, and sparkling scanty costumes of the Folies Bergère music hall find a new home with the highest bidder.

The symbol of Parisian 'joie de vivre' at the turn of the century, the Folies Bergère was a palace of taboo-busting sensuality, replete with nearly-nude showgirls performing erotic striptease.

Shows also played up the 'exoticness' of people and objects from other cultures, satisfying the Parisian fascination with the négritude of the Twenties.

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Former Folies Bergères director Hélène Martini











Josephine Baker, who became on overnight sensation at the club with her Danse sauvage

[Lady Cop]

well this sounds interesting!!

Lesbian love affairs with a politician's wife, a landmark libel lawsuit and a play that intertwined Biblical passages with sexual innuendo added up to a salacious drama that gripped the British public in the early 1900s.

Now, with a new play detailing the drama of a scandal brings the life and loves of dancer Maud Allan back into the spotlight nearly a century after her initial fame.

Well before she was known for her sensual dances, Allan was already fleeing controversy.

Born Beulah Maude Durrant in Toronto, Canada, she spent her childhood in San Francisco before leaving for Germany in 1895 at age 22 to study music.

While abroad, her brother Theodore killed two girls inside a California church and instantly became notorious throughout the United States. He was found guilty and sentenced to death by hanging.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...z1yAZk2rfS