Immodesty Blaize
May. 12th, 2005 01:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bethlakshmiMusing back on one of my many, many favorite moments, I remembered to go check out this site:
Immodesty Blaize's Website
This is one of the performers we saw in the show, Burlesque that we saw in London. We agreed - 65% of the show was FABOULOUS. Walter - a cross-dressing Burlesque stripper (male gone female) - we could have done without. He had sort of one "tone" - comedic by way of inability to pretend to be female - that got pretty old, pretty fast. But let me not harp on the bad stuff.
This show was AWESOME, otherwise. Immodesty Blaize is my favorite part.
She's close to my size and frame - maybe she's shorter, but she has real, true, overwhelming, totally enthralling presence. That thing that you look for, she has it, possibly more than anyone else I've ever seen. Facial expressions - perfect, choreography - dynamic, execution - spot on, right in time, appropos to music, with fabulous costumes that accentuated the super-girly, super-sexy nature of her dancing. Every detail just right. I can't stop gushing.
And, most important, when I say my size, I mean - my size. She's not a Gap-model thin, perfect size 2. She's got good hips, good boobs. She doens't have flat abs, and she's got serious thighs and thick upper arms, that wiggle slightly with something I'm pretty sure isn't muscle. She's not fat, but she's not skinny either. When she danced, I was 100% sure she was Just Right. But she didn't have that elusive "perfect body". She was toned, she was *on* - she never panted, and never looked tired - her body was up to the job.
And what made it, what made her the sexiest dancer I've seen in a long, long time - maybe ever - is that she was phenomenal. Her abilty to dance, and to look good and to have fun while doing it was spot on. She exuded such charisma, that no way can having a perfect body and NOT having that certain charisma come close. Given a perfect Rockette shape, and Miss Blaize, I'll take Miss Blaize hands down any time.
It make me really realize, how much mass media does so many of us in. This was really inspiring for me. To realize that being dead sexy and fabulous as all hell has so much more to do with how good a dancer you are, and not with what your body shape is. Well... it's something most of the dancers I know do lip service to - that we can all be faboulous - but I think we all have our moments of doubt. It's a hard concept to grasp, deep down in your gut - that no REALLY you don't have to be perfectly shaped. We all have those days when we cannot, no matter how hard we try, convince ourselves that we are sexy beasts.
I'm gonna use my program as a touch stone. When I believe that I can't be a fabulously sexy because I weigh 15 pounds more than I wish I did, I'm taking out my program and staring at how dead sexy she is. If she can do it, I can do it. I just need to practice, practice, practice. Must remember to bring program to dance class (not tonight, can't go home between now and then) to inflict it and my rant on the dancing ladies.
Not to say the other stuff in the show wasn't good too, I just don't have time to right about it now.
Immodesty Blaize's Website
This is one of the performers we saw in the show, Burlesque that we saw in London. We agreed - 65% of the show was FABOULOUS. Walter - a cross-dressing Burlesque stripper (male gone female) - we could have done without. He had sort of one "tone" - comedic by way of inability to pretend to be female - that got pretty old, pretty fast. But let me not harp on the bad stuff.
This show was AWESOME, otherwise. Immodesty Blaize is my favorite part.
She's close to my size and frame - maybe she's shorter, but she has real, true, overwhelming, totally enthralling presence. That thing that you look for, she has it, possibly more than anyone else I've ever seen. Facial expressions - perfect, choreography - dynamic, execution - spot on, right in time, appropos to music, with fabulous costumes that accentuated the super-girly, super-sexy nature of her dancing. Every detail just right. I can't stop gushing.
And, most important, when I say my size, I mean - my size. She's not a Gap-model thin, perfect size 2. She's got good hips, good boobs. She doens't have flat abs, and she's got serious thighs and thick upper arms, that wiggle slightly with something I'm pretty sure isn't muscle. She's not fat, but she's not skinny either. When she danced, I was 100% sure she was Just Right. But she didn't have that elusive "perfect body". She was toned, she was *on* - she never panted, and never looked tired - her body was up to the job.
And what made it, what made her the sexiest dancer I've seen in a long, long time - maybe ever - is that she was phenomenal. Her abilty to dance, and to look good and to have fun while doing it was spot on. She exuded such charisma, that no way can having a perfect body and NOT having that certain charisma come close. Given a perfect Rockette shape, and Miss Blaize, I'll take Miss Blaize hands down any time.
It make me really realize, how much mass media does so many of us in. This was really inspiring for me. To realize that being dead sexy and fabulous as all hell has so much more to do with how good a dancer you are, and not with what your body shape is. Well... it's something most of the dancers I know do lip service to - that we can all be faboulous - but I think we all have our moments of doubt. It's a hard concept to grasp, deep down in your gut - that no REALLY you don't have to be perfectly shaped. We all have those days when we cannot, no matter how hard we try, convince ourselves that we are sexy beasts.
I'm gonna use my program as a touch stone. When I believe that I can't be a fabulously sexy because I weigh 15 pounds more than I wish I did, I'm taking out my program and staring at how dead sexy she is. If she can do it, I can do it. I just need to practice, practice, practice. Must remember to bring program to dance class (not tonight, can't go home between now and then) to inflict it and my rant on the dancing ladies.
Not to say the other stuff in the show wasn't good too, I just don't have time to right about it now.