The difference between Burlesque & Lap dancing apart from everything, is how they get paid.
Lap dancers earn money by being nice to creeps, Burlesque dancers don't.
So when a lecherous perv hiding behind the title of "photographer" is told to fuck off by Burlesque girls, the lap dancers will politely smile.
(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 12:41, Share, Reply)
but... but...
only the creepiest guys are into burlesque... so aren't burlesque acts... oh, they aren't nice to the creeps, I see
(, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 15:32, Share, Reply)
Haha!
I was shooting a behind the scenes (with a set of portraits) of a Burlesque group for their publications so it didn't involve them getting their clothes off, basically just them getting worked on by make up artists. I specialise in portrait and event work so it just means me photographing things as natural as possible. I'm just commenting on what they spoke about and how they treated the make-up artists, which was appallingly.
It was a similar deal with the Lapdancers. I work with the same duo of make up artists and they were treated with nothing but respect and unlike the Burlesque troupe, we're utter professionals in front if the camera.
Just telling it how I saw it and they may possibly be the exception to the rule but the make-up artists said they get it all the time from the burlesque girls they've worked with.
As being called a lecherous perv, I was paid £600 for the burlesque job (not including the make up artists fees) and £900 for the lap dancing job. Not bad for a couple of hours work 'perving' as you put it.
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Hardfarter Following through since 1978, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 16:13,
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