Skin Tight Outta Sight burlesque babes and boys shake and shimmy their way into hearts this past Valentine’s Eve
It’s 15 minutes before the door opens at the Gladstone Hotel and there is a lineup around the entire side of the building. Shit it looks like it’s over a hundred people, so much for snagging that choice seat tonight.
This February 14th it’s the 8th Annual Bump N’ Grind Valentine by Skin Tight Outta Sight Rebel Burlesque (STOS) aptly entitled “Voluptous Panic.” In a panic I look for a seat while the hordes of people enter and scramble for a seat. I am left standing in front of the DJ booth staking out a few spots for my friends coming to join me.
A full 15 minutes later and they arrive and have to cross the busy floor in the quest to bring this girl a glass of champagne since I had to hold down the fort for a view of the show.
This is my second year in attendance for the STOS show on Valentine’s night. Last year I attended with my girlfriend while researching for a native burlesque dancing article for Spirit Magazine (Spring 2008 Issue) that featured a cover with Veronika Swartz of the Shameless Dames troupe here in Toronto. That was my first entrée into burlesque dancing and that is when I fell in love with the act(s).
Tonight’s acts fell a little short of my expectations though. I had anticipated a fantastic show full of fun and folly and what I saw where lackluster performances that felt like they could have used some finessing. Perhaps my mood was affected by the panic that I was thwarted into upon arrival and then my subsequent panic of being left without a cocktail to soothe my rattled nerves.
What did rattle me was a newcomer to the scene, Dew Lily of Boylesque T.O. who did a German equestrian number on top of a toy horse and proceeded to finish the act by eating the horse. He was left with faux blood on his mouth and torn fishnet stockings. Hot mess!
I left the show with a desire to inspire my own inner showgirl and ramp it up a notch. Honey B. Hind who opened the show this year teaches burlesque classes at Boom Chika Boom in Toronto along with burlesque bombshell Coco Framboise. While the classes have just ended for the Valentines Day ramp-up I am sure they will be back in motion soon. I will dust off my patent leather stilettos and get some pasties ready for the next wave. Who knows, maybe I will be on stage at the next burlesque event I attend . . .
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