Boylesque: Lord Dashwood

I was trawling about Youtube and found myself looking at male strip show videos. And while I’m quite partial to a good male strip show, they can also be a bit cliched and sometimes the attitude of the dancer can be a bit too agressive or cocky.

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And then I found this video. Lord Dashwood is a male burlesque dancer whose routine is a mix of drag and more masculine dancing. He’s quite softly spoken and seems to be an all-round nice guy. His Myspace page says he’s married… and Jewish, in case you’re curious. He won Best Newcomer at the Ministry of Burlesque awards in 2007.

Alas, he’s now retired, if the comment on this news item is to be believed. “I organised a stag do at a burlesque night a few years back, but only because the groom-to-be fancied a go at being one of the acts. He then set up a successful part time stint as burlesque act Lord Dashwood, stripping down to stockings and corsets and what not. He’s retired now because he and his wife have a son.”

I went looking for more male burlesque videos but there’s very few of them and most seem to be performed for gay audiences.

I occasionally have this mad idea that it would be cool to open a male strip bar and host upmarket events for straight women. Sure, I’d feature the Manpower type acts but I’d also love to encourage guys to do something a little different. Cross a few boundaries, wear suspenders, do a Frank N Furter, do acrobatics or pole dance (I think guys who pole dance are sexy). And of course, I’d want to see a range of body shapes, not just the buff muscle bound types, nice as they are.