I need to learn how to hoop dance!

I need to learn how to hoop dance because:

1. It’s an amazing workout
2. It’s fun
3. I want to eventually do fire hoop.
4. When I saw the Suicide Girls burlesque show there was this really cute girl doing burlesque piece to Elvis while hooping. It was damn good and the only really good thing about that show.

Good thing there’s a group here in Albuquerque that specializes in hooping. Yay! They meet every Sunday at 11a.m. at Bataan Park, Lomas and Amherst - next to Walgreens.  I know what I’m doing next Sunday morning. Join me!!

Now, some hoopers!

 

LOOK AT HOW FRAKKING TONED SHE IS!!!!!!!!!!!!

Excuse me while I mop up the drool from my keyboard. Gah!

 

I really want to get the Hoopnotica dvd when I get the moneys. For the time being, I will gladly enjoy my Sundays in the park hopefully getting some one on one instruction for free.

Bonus : How to make your own hoop.

Christina Aguilera to star in ‘Burlesque’

It’s official. Christina Aguilera has confirmed to play a burlesque dancer in the film “Burlesque”. The film is written by Steven Antin, brother to Robin Antin of Pussycat Doll fame.  Yeah.

My gut reaction to this project is to automatically dismiss it. I don’t like Christina or the Pussycat Dolls. I don’t really think of the Pussycat Dolls as a burlesque act. They just sing in their underwear. I don’t get it. The plot sounds like every stripper/hooker with a heart of gold movie out there:

“Aguilera will play an ambitious small-town girl with a big voice who finds love, family and success in a Los Angeles neo-burlesque club that appears to be right out of Bob Fosse's "Cabaret."”

Hmmm.  Sounds a lot like Flashdance and Showgirls. Nomi was from a small town too. All she wanted to do was be a dancer. And look at all the shenanigans she got into!!

Let me guess, she falls in love with her manager, but SURPRISE, he turns out to be a scumbag.  After some shaming, fall from grace, she receives help and redemption from her “family of dancers” played by the Pussycat Dolls. She falls in love with the only man to ever believe in her ,an audience member who frequents her shows, and live happily ever after. Awwww.

I can’t wait to snark this. Please, pay me to see this.  I can only hope it is as LOL worthy as Showgirls and somebody gets pushed down the stairs. 

I know. I know. I’m prejudging something that could be great. Who knows?  But I have a tendency to roll my eyes at any  watered–down project Hollywood lays it’s hands on these days.

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• Need some extra steam in your routine? Get some Steampunk pasties. I do agree, if they could be mechanized, that would be AH-MA-ZING!


• Folies Bergere had it's final performance Saturday night.


• An interesting article on the burlesque comminity : The Burlesque World: Ya-Ya Sisterhood or Mean Girls? by Sahara Dunes


• Which makes me think of this post by Gala Darling : Jealousy Is the Killer of Girl Love