WEBVTT 00:00:00.386 --> 00:00:07.409 - Learn, Monroe County. If you don't learn, then you're gonna die. Hello and welcome back to another episode 00:00:07.409 --> 00:00:14.169 - of Learn, Monroe County. Today I am joined by a good friend of mine. This is Clementine Delight, who's 00:00:14.169 --> 00:00:20.863 - gonna teach me all about burlesque. But first, I don't know anything about burlesque. Can you tell me 00:00:20.863 --> 00:00:24.670 - a little bit about the history of dancing and being sexy? 00:00:25.346 --> 00:00:32.315 - can so I don't know too much about the deep so the history burlesque is very long and rich a lot of 00:00:32.315 --> 00:00:39.632 - people when you look into it they'll say that it goes all the way back to like the ancient Greeks really 00:00:39.632 --> 00:00:46.810 - yeah that I can't verify I'm not a historian I do know that in America the history burlesque goes back 00:00:46.810 --> 00:00:54.127 - at least to like the 18 well in England it goes back to like the 1840s okay and America it goes at least 00:00:54.127 --> 00:00:55.312 - back to like the 00:00:55.312 --> 00:01:02.517 - late 1800s but it became really popular in the turn of the century so like 1910 so like Edwardian era 00:01:02.517 --> 00:01:09.582 - to the 1920s with vaudeville. People loved getting naked and dancing back. They did. Now is it true 00:01:09.582 --> 00:01:16.858 - that burlesque was invented because porn hadn't been invented yet and people needed to see women dance 00:01:16.858 --> 00:01:24.134 - all sexy like on stage is that true? Porn had been invented by that point actually. I thought porn was 00:01:24.134 --> 00:01:25.264 - invented in the 00:01:25.264 --> 00:01:32.432 - 50s along with fluoride toothpaste. Is that when fluoride toothpaste was invented? I don't know. Every 00:01:32.432 --> 00:01:39.740 - fact I say on this show is not true. That's fair. Check your facts, folks. Fact check, Ethan. I am doing 00:01:39.740 --> 00:01:46.978 - this for you so you can become more media literate. Now porn was invented in the 50s. Continue, please. 00:01:46.978 --> 00:01:52.894 - Sure, sure, sure, sure. So yeah, so burlesque. Burlesque became popular primarily in 00:01:53.026 --> 00:02:00.321 - early 20th century so that the 1920s you had a lot of vaudeville performers you had people who were 00:02:00.321 --> 00:02:07.762 - traveling around some of which could kind of you almost all like in a circus shows which were kind of 00:02:07.762 --> 00:02:15.276 - considered more like seedier shows like you had like full nudity which wasn't necessarily kosher we'll 00:02:15.276 --> 00:02:17.246 - say yeah but then you have 00:02:17.474 --> 00:02:24.838 - more bottle shows that had more like the extravagant costuming where like people would did like strip 00:02:24.838 --> 00:02:32.203 - down but not strip down all the way. So there are types of burlesque out there. There's more like you 00:02:32.203 --> 00:02:39.423 - know like the you-hoo sort of one and there's more of the artistic bada bing sort of one. Right yes 00:02:39.423 --> 00:02:41.950 - and burlesque today obviously like 00:02:42.050 --> 00:02:49.188 - is more akin to, I like to say that it's like stripping meets theater has a baby. I love that. Yeah. 00:02:49.188 --> 00:02:56.609 - Okay, so we're gonna learn how to strip for the theater audience. Yeah. Okay, and off camera, Clementine 00:02:56.609 --> 00:03:03.818 - was telling me that we are gonna have to, there's set rules, and what was the word you used? Routine. 00:03:03.818 --> 00:03:10.885 - Yes, there's a routine. There's a routine that we must make. Sorry folks, it's early, it's six a.m. 00:03:10.885 --> 00:03:12.016 - So we're gonna, 00:03:12.016 --> 00:03:19.181 - We're gonna drop that off. How long you been doing burlesque though? I started doing burlesque in August 00:03:19.181 --> 00:03:26.073 - of 2022, so I'm three years into it. Now do you, is it like, what's the drive there, you know? Yeah, 00:03:26.073 --> 00:03:33.102 - so it started out, I had always been interested in burlesque. I'd always been drawn to it, but I never 00:03:33.102 --> 00:03:40.062 - really thought that I could do it. And then a friend of mine, Lucid Dream, looked them up on socials. 00:03:40.162 --> 00:03:47.304 - L-O-U-S-I-D, dream, was doing an open stage at the back door here in Bloomington and was like, hey, 00:03:47.304 --> 00:03:54.445 - do you want to do this open stage with me? And I said, sure. So I threw an act together in like two 00:03:54.445 --> 00:03:58.302 - weeks and jumped in, did an open stage, fell in love. 00:03:58.658 --> 00:04:04.798 - And then a producer friend of mine saw me at that show and asked me to be on another show like that. 00:04:04.798 --> 00:04:10.938 - That's cool. Shortly after and was like, oh, I want to book like this act to be in a different show. 00:04:10.938 --> 00:04:17.078 - And it just kind of like steamrolled from there. I love that. Yeah. I love that. I feel like finding 00:04:17.078 --> 00:04:23.400 - new artistic outlets is always something someone could use. Yeah. You never know what you're into until 00:04:23.400 --> 00:04:27.230 - you do it, folks. That's what my grandpa always would tell me. 00:04:27.394 --> 00:04:35.031 - anyway we're gonna we're gonna we're going to learn how to do burlesque I'm gonna come up with a routine 00:04:35.031 --> 00:04:42.595 - and then at home everyone can come with their own routine send them in along with your sketches in your 00:04:42.595 --> 00:04:50.159 - fan mail please we have we have bags full of mail and we want more are you reading the mail I'm reading 00:04:50.159 --> 00:04:57.360 - every single one most of its Unabomber similar like Unabomber vibes you know and occasionally it's 00:04:57.360 --> 00:05:04.573 - It's a man from Eastern Europe who's telling me how beautiful I am. I've got some love letters. I'm 00:05:04.573 --> 00:05:11.859 - big in the prison system out there. Anyway, we're going to figure out this whole thing. We'll cut to 00:05:11.859 --> 00:05:19.216 - the dancing. Burlesque, as we stated previously, you need a routine. And I don't have an imagination. 00:05:19.216 --> 00:05:26.718 - I've never been sexy for others. So Clementine's going to show us a classic Clementine delight routine. 00:05:27.042 --> 00:05:36.559 - and we're gonna get hot. Let's do it, take it away. Perfect, okay. And we're dancing to an Arctic Monkeys 00:05:36.559 --> 00:05:45.628 - song, which will be probably blocked out due to copyright, so just pretend. Okay, and, all right. It 00:05:45.628 --> 00:05:52.990 - starts with hands on the head. You're gonna bring your hands down. Down the neck. 00:05:56.994 --> 00:06:20.149 - We're going to get out of the chair. Walk around the chair. Cross the chair. Back to the side of the 00:06:20.149 --> 00:06:26.110 - chair. Little leg action. 00:06:28.290 --> 00:06:35.811 - Move to the front. Do you want to show off your butt a little bit? Of course I do. And then, this is, 00:06:35.811 --> 00:06:43.628 - I would usually straddle the chair, but these chairs are not great for that, so we're going to pantomime. 00:06:43.628 --> 00:06:50.707 - Gosh. And then, I don't know, I have a corset, so this is where I start to take the corset off. 00:06:50.707 --> 00:06:53.214 - I can pretend. You can pantomime. 00:06:57.186 --> 00:07:08.266 - Move to the front. So with burlesque, you always want to make sure that if you are going to want to, 00:07:08.266 --> 00:07:19.236 - even if you're pantomiming, you want to make sure that if you want to touch your body, you actually 00:07:19.236 --> 00:07:27.134 - touch your body. Sure, deliberate, sure. Deliberate, sensual movements. 00:07:27.810 --> 00:07:42.307 - Okay, and then we're going to do a little sneak peek, a little reveal. Always cheat back to the audience, 00:07:42.307 --> 00:07:55.710 - give them a little cheeky smile. Turn sexy. And then this is the floor work routine. Let's do it. 00:07:55.938 --> 00:08:04.892 - and I'm trying to remember how exactly it goes. I think we already need to be on the floor by this point. 00:08:04.892 --> 00:08:13.423 - Let me refer back. I haven't done this routine in a minute. It's going to... This is why I videotape 00:08:13.423 --> 00:08:20.350 - everything so I can remember what my routine is. Sure. Yeah, I think that's fine. 00:08:26.850 --> 00:08:34.783 - Okay, so we're down on the ground. So what we're gonna do, we're gonna take our hands, we're gonna feel 00:08:34.783 --> 00:08:42.792 - our way down, we're gonna lower, and then we're gonna move to the ground, and then we're going to swoop, 00:08:42.792 --> 00:08:50.725 - slide, and then press back up. Oh yeah, bend and snap. Yeah, the bend and snap, classic. And then we're 00:08:50.725 --> 00:08:55.454 - gonna move over here, this way, a little leg action up there, 00:08:58.402 --> 00:09:04.138 - It seems like slow, deliberate movement. It's all, yeah, yeah, yeah. If you have a slow routine, you 00:09:04.138 --> 00:09:10.385 - definitely wanna make sure that you're really taking your time to really feel the slow, deliberate movements, 00:09:10.385 --> 00:09:16.178 - really tease the audience. Sure, this should be titillating. Titillating, exactly. You're getting it. 00:09:16.178 --> 00:09:22.028 - So, let me slide. We're gonna do a little bit of like, fun little leg work. Okay. So you put your legs 00:09:22.028 --> 00:09:26.174 - up, you do a little swirly down this way, a little swirly over this way. 00:09:26.498 --> 00:09:39.698 - Little fan kick this way and then back up and then this is the really fun part where you have to like 00:09:39.698 --> 00:09:52.510 - figure out how to Sensuously get back up to your feet That's a way to do it And then okay and then 00:09:53.602 --> 00:10:00.530 - your you know your your your costume. Thank you. Impeccable, beautiful. Thank you. Yeah, it's great. 00:10:00.530 --> 00:10:07.595 - I would say pro tip for when picking out costumes for burlesque. You want to pick out clothes that are 00:10:07.595 --> 00:10:09.310 - interesting to take off. 00:10:09.730 --> 00:10:16.307 - Okay, sure. No one likes a sock being taken off. No, people love socks being taken off. People love 00:10:16.307 --> 00:10:22.950 - socks being taken off. Better if it's like a thigh-high sock. Sure. Get a nice stocking peel. Pop it 00:10:22.950 --> 00:10:27.422 - up on a leg. Pop the leg up there, there, slowly peel it off. Okay. 00:10:27.522 --> 00:10:35.040 - and then like pull it. I can bring my stockings out and show you how to do that. We can try that. Did 00:10:35.040 --> 00:10:42.558 - you get a good old fashioned stocking feel? But yeah, so like when it comes to like shirts, t-shirts. 00:10:42.690 --> 00:10:50.707 - are fine but it's not like the easiest and most visually appealing to like pull a t-shirt off unless 00:10:50.707 --> 00:10:58.723 - you do it right in the right way. What if you had seven t-shirts on and each one of them was maybe a 00:10:58.723 --> 00:11:07.454 - little bit more transparent than the last? Does that work better? If that's what you're going for. Okay cool. 00:11:08.290 --> 00:11:24.254 - I want my nipples to be 00:11:25.026 --> 00:11:31.873 - Protect protect people from nipples, nipples and genitalia. Yeah, so biggest killers in this country 00:11:31.873 --> 00:11:38.924 - that you can. You can strip down, but you have to strip down to like panties in a pasty or what or like 00:11:38.924 --> 00:11:45.839 - a Merkin in a pasty Merkin. Yes, so like a Birkin. No, it's well. So traditionally the word Merkin is 00:11:45.839 --> 00:11:52.687 - like a term for a vagina. OK, we can cut that. We don't know. Maybe we'll leave it in. I didn't know 00:11:52.687 --> 00:11:54.992 - there was such thing as a vagina. 00:11:54.992 --> 00:12:03.442 - a lot of people are learning right now but now it's it's a type of like cover all that doesn't have 00:12:03.442 --> 00:12:12.061 - any like it just like adheres to the body and so it doesn't have any like straps to hold it up so you 00:12:12.061 --> 00:12:19.582 - kind of just like just exists tape it to yourself on your on your your private yeah okay 00:12:20.002 --> 00:12:28.720 - And that's called a workin? A merkin? Merkin. Yeah. Not a berkin bag, a vagina wig. Yeah, merkins were 00:12:28.720 --> 00:12:37.439 - used in Hollywood as a wig for pubic hair. I like that. Well, I don't know if I like that. I like that 00:12:37.439 --> 00:12:46.073 - I know the facts now. I can drop that and people think I'm freaking weird. We're talking about vagina 00:12:46.073 --> 00:12:49.374 - wigs, Ethan. I learned it, that's why. 00:12:49.538 --> 00:12:57.169 - Um, OK, cool. Yeah, so no nipples, no nipples, no genitals, no genitals. Yeah, I'm keeping it in my 00:12:57.169 --> 00:13:05.182 - pants in my shirt. Yeah, so unless you have pasties, right? Which I did not bring you. It's OK, I should 00:13:05.182 --> 00:13:12.965 - have brought my own. Yeah, it's OK. They're like $10 at Cerrillas, so Cerrillas. Yeah, yeah, where is 00:13:12.965 --> 00:13:18.078 - Cerrillas? So this is on the West Side. OK, it's by Hoppy Wobbles. 00:13:18.338 --> 00:13:25.888 - It is by Once Upon a Child, which is a weird place for a TV show. That is a weird one. I've been there 00:13:25.888 --> 00:13:33.438 - when I was a child. I haven't been there in many years. Yeah, you haven't been a child in a long time. 00:13:33.438 --> 00:13:37.470 - I'm 30 and doing burlesque. Perfect. Where are we now? 00:13:38.466 --> 00:13:46.417 - So you want to wear interesting clothes that are like our clothes that are interesting to take off. 00:13:46.417 --> 00:13:54.687 - So like button down shirts perfect because you can like slowly unbutton them. I did bring a button down 00:13:54.687 --> 00:14:02.877 - if you want to play with a button down shirt. Sure, why not? Let me put it on. OK, it's a men's button 00:14:02.877 --> 00:14:07.966 - down so it'll fit. I love this. Oh yeah. I feel sexier already. 00:14:08.418 --> 00:14:19.068 - I feel like I, I'm sure there's more song to show, but I wanna also, I wanna just try it on my own and 00:14:19.068 --> 00:14:29.925 - see how close I get. And I can use this and unbutton. I wish, I love having cameras around. You buttoned 00:14:29.925 --> 00:14:36.542 - it wrong. You buttoned it wrong. I'm sorry, I didn't mean that. 00:14:40.130 --> 00:14:47.232 - This button goes nowhere. This button. Those are the extras. Yeah, those are the extras that I don't 00:14:47.232 --> 00:14:54.616 - take off the shirt. In case I lose one. Of course. I feel like I'm in a lab. A sexy lab. I'm not talking 00:14:54.616 --> 00:15:01.929 - about AirBud either. Alright, we're having fun. We're having so much fun. Okay. Alright. Teach me more. 00:15:01.929 --> 00:15:06.078 - Okay. So, um, what would be like a good, okay, let me see. 00:15:06.562 --> 00:15:14.315 - We're going to cut the music, so it doesn't really matter what song we do. And we just got up after 00:15:14.315 --> 00:15:22.301 - we did our floor thing. Yes, so we just got up after we did our floor thing. So... We'll move this one 00:15:22.301 --> 00:15:30.210 - back a little bit. So you just really just want to feel the music. Yeah, there you go. You're getting 00:15:30.210 --> 00:15:31.838 - it. Oh, that's good. 00:15:37.250 --> 00:15:44.261 - You turned on Monroe County. And I would almost like I would almost like the last button I would. I 00:15:44.261 --> 00:15:51.272 - would do behind the camera and then so you could do like a little like flash and like shimmy it off 00:15:51.272 --> 00:15:58.564 - your shoulders very like slowly. Maybe a little too fast and then like look back on them. Give a little 00:15:58.564 --> 00:16:04.734 - cheekiness, you know. Yeah, that's maybe too cheeky. I guess extra spicy for them, but. 00:16:05.058 --> 00:16:13.274 - them too hot and heavy there Ethan. I don't want to do that. You're supposed to learn not be turned 00:16:13.274 --> 00:16:21.490 - on. Get your morals correct, Monroe County. And then do you freestyle after that? So ordinarily, so 00:16:21.490 --> 00:16:29.870 - the routine, once you're kind of done and the song ends, usually the stage cuts to black and then you 00:16:29.870 --> 00:16:31.678 - exit the stage. Okay. 00:16:31.970 --> 00:16:39.011 - Typically speaking. Okay. Yeah. I like that. I would like. At that point you're usually completely 00:16:39.011 --> 00:16:46.479 - de-clothed. Okay sure. Yeah. Minus your merkin and pasties. Yeah or like panties and pasties. Or panties 00:16:46.479 --> 00:16:53.804 - and pasties. I ate pizza this morning. Anyway, I want to try this one on my own. Can I do that? Here's 00:16:53.804 --> 00:16:55.582 - the deal, Monroe County. 00:16:56.354 --> 00:17:03.257 - Clementine Delight taught me so much that I'm ready to do my own burlesque. Little Ethan style, 00:17:03.257 --> 00:17:05.918 - you know? Cue the music! Benny Hill! 00:19:19.586 --> 00:19:26.334 - shoes off. I could have taken my shoes off. Play it again. From the start that you stopped. 00:20:07.042 --> 00:20:14.750 - And then it cuts to black, and I leave. So one more thing we have to go over. Yes. You need a burlesque 00:20:14.750 --> 00:20:22.458 - name. Okay. All right. Now, is there a specific, like, parameters? Get in frame. Let's talk about this. 00:20:22.458 --> 00:20:30.017 - Okay. I've learned burlesque, but, and listen, no counting, you need to get in shape and want to feel 00:20:30.017 --> 00:20:31.870 - hot, dance it out, okay? 00:20:32.962 --> 00:20:39.070 - Clementine has let me know that I need to come up with a burlesque name. Is there something that inspires 00:20:39.070 --> 00:20:45.062 - those usually or is it just like whatever you're fucking with? It's pretty much whatever you're fucking 00:20:45.062 --> 00:20:51.170 - with. So like for example, I think I told you earlier, so my name comes from the inspiration as a bearded 00:20:51.170 --> 00:20:56.989 - lady because I have an affinity for bearded ladies. And so mine was named after Clementine Delay who 00:20:56.989 --> 00:20:59.582 - was a bearded lady from the 1890s in France. 00:20:59.682 --> 00:21:07.173 - And then some people, you know, they like to be punny with it. Some people just like to be, like, sensual 00:21:07.173 --> 00:21:14.524 - with it. It really, I feel like you put maybe kind of a punny name because it's you. Sure, sure. I also 00:21:14.524 --> 00:21:21.662 - am thinking, I usually, my alias often is Gucci Warhol. It's named after two of my favorite artists, 00:21:21.662 --> 00:21:29.648 - Gucci Mane and Andy Warhol. So I was thinking, what if we kind of switch it up? My burlesque name could be Andy. 00:21:29.648 --> 00:21:30.974 - Andy Mayne. 00:21:31.458 --> 00:21:37.740 - Andy Warhol, Gucci Mane. I like that. Andy Mane is here to dance. Eat your heart out Monroe County. 00:21:37.740 --> 00:21:43.897 - I think that's great. You know what though? We couldn't get this done without the library, right? 00:21:43.897 --> 00:21:50.430 - That's true. So important. Yeah, support your local library. Your local library. Get your library card. 00:21:50.430 --> 00:21:57.152 - I want to thank everyone for letting us do this. Clementine Delight for being such a fantastic instructor. 00:21:57.152 --> 00:22:01.424 - Twin Lakes Recreation Center for letting me be almost nude in here. 00:22:01.424 --> 00:22:23.742 - talent everyone else back to the studio have a wonderful night thank you everybody thank you I felt sexy