In a burlesque mood on K road

Last Friday night we were invited to join Liz & IJ to what we thought was a burlesque salsa show at a bar up K road. One of Liz’ classmates was responsible for the choreography, and as she is a pretty skilled dancer I pictured this would be a smooth latin-cultural-experience with professional dancers moving their hips in all directions to warm beats from South America.

All dressed up and good-lookin'(?), ready for the ultimate salsa experience

With this rather classy image in our minds, we dressed up in suits and skirts and dresses – I even put on glasses to look more serious and adult. After arriving, we had a few drinks and waited in excitement for what we though was going to take us to the next level of cultural understanding.

Christian building up his "burlesqueity"

As the show started, it did not take long to figure out that the emphasis was on burlesque, not salsa. There were only female dancers and, as the salsa music played along, they kept taking off their clothes until they wore nothing but their underwear.

Luckily, this guy kept his suit on all night

To all male (and some of the female) readers of our blog: Really sorry that I am not providing you with photos from the show – photographing was strictly prohibited. Besides, since I was watching the show with 5 female friends + girlfriend, I really did not have the right incentives to borrow my girlfriends camera and start running around to take pictures. So instead, I bring you some pics from before and after the show.

Liz and IJ also kept their clothes on all night, as far as I know.