Mondays are generally pretty shit, right? Tuesdays are hardly better. Well they certainly weren’t this week with the grand opening of the Berlin Burlesque Week 2017.
We sent Chloe with her quill to the Ballhaus, confident that the Big Tickle would deliver on its label. 24h later Jem showed up at Bassy Cowboy Club with his camera for Bana Banana‘s Grüne Engel. All pictures by Jem Bosatta from Der Grüne Engel.
The Big Tickle, seen by Chloe Gale
- Va Va Voom Sirens© Jem Bosatta
- Martini Cherry © Jem Bosatta
- © Jem Bosatta
- Rosie Riot © Jem Bosatta
- Martini Cherry © Jem Bosatta
- Va Va Voom Sirens © Jem Bosatta
- © Jem Bosatta
Der Grüne Engel, seen by Jem Bosatta
“I’ll keep this quick. It’s not so difficult to explain. In the words of the utterly flamboyant, utterly fabulous Martini Cherry, ‘The more you see dentelle, the more you scream’. You know what you’re getting with a Bana Banana burlesque night. Or do you?
You you can expect more than just dentelle – wonderful, wonderful diversity. Diversity of costume: thanks to Magenta Lust I’ll never see R2-D2 the same way. Diversity of style: I’m sure Hotti de Paris and Rosie Riot spent half their set upside down. Even better, diversity of bodies – darker, paler, bigger, shapelier, older, wiser.
This is what burlesque is all about. It’s a beautiful contrast. They pour all their love and energy into something beautiful and unique, and they throw it on the floor. And we end up screaming and shouting about the most basic, ordinary thing in the whole room – the thing Mother Nature gave all of us, with absolutely no say in its appearance – a (nearly) naked human body.”