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The Peach Tartes @ Don Hills
By The Geek on the Street on Thursday, March 1st, 2007
It was a Wednesday night, and I spent a lousy day yapping to idiot tourists on an open-top bus. I made some pretty good tips though and figured it was worth $10 at the door to see some titties.
WAIT, NO! That’s not what Burlesque is about! It’s supposed to be a clever and ironic throwback to the 1920’s and 30’s where sexual performance was still new and scandalous! Neo-Burlesque is, of course, a self-counscious modern interpretation on a distinct early 20th century art-form, a fusion of costuming, dance, seduction and humor all while weaving a narrative through music and pantomime, topping it all off with. . . well, yes, Titties! With pasties! And tassles that swirl!!
But, as my first paragraph illustrated, sometimes a fella can dilude himself into believing that he’s attending a subtle, layered, performance piece when in truth, it’s a lot more like a glorified strip-tease.
Which is what my experience seeing The Peach Tartes at Don Hills was like last night. Don Hills, which can be found at Greenwich and Spring sts, in the above Canal st part of TriBeCa (wait a second. . .) and The audience seemed to be mostly made up of the Wall st. types, (both guys and girls) looking to get their jollies off at the sight of pert young female flesh shaking their goodies for the whole crowd to enjoy.
The show was well composed, the ladies very, very sexy all of them with very clever burlesque names and sexy outfits. The loose plot of the show was that these six young ladies were all guests at the Heartbreak Hotel, acting out the five stages of grief (Denial, Bargaining, Anger, Depression, Acceptance) through burlesque acts some (Denial, Depression) more inspired than others (the rest) along with the most fun, often forgotten stage of overcoming grief: REVENGE!
Though in most of the cases, when not sure of how to take the flimsy story-line of each of their acts further, just displayed some spinning kicks and splits, opting for some easy applause from the audience.
The most enjoyable part of the evening had to be the first act, the Tartes signature piece, all six ladies, in three sets of Dom/Sub duets, tight bodies in slinky lingere performing a very, very naughty dance piece set to Chriss Isaac’s “Baby did a Bad Bad Thing”
Sure, it got my jolly-jim all nice and pointy, but I’m the type to call a spade a spade and if it looks like a strip show, it acts like a strip show, and the skanky bar it’s in smells like a strip show, well then
Don’t call it “Burlesque”
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March 2nd, 2007 at 12:11 am
Geek, I spent a large portion of my early twenties in titty bars and loved every minute of it. Go go dancing is like the burly q in that even though there’s titties a flapoin’ if it’s boring, it just taint fun! Anyway I love your review and your honesty.
ps- I saw jello wrestling at Don HIlls and the joint DOES smell like a strip show.
-A
March 2nd, 2007 at 7:18 pm
I had a strip steak the other night, and it kinda smelled like jello. Also, I heard that the best steak house in NYC is at the Penthouse strip club. Rachel Ray goes there for the steak. She’d make a good burlesque dancer (if she could SHUT UP). There I said it. See how it all comes full circle?
Tim
March 3rd, 2007 at 2:41 pm
I took stripper lessons at the Penthouse Gentleman’s Club. Didn’t have the steak though. Maybe one of these days I’ll write a review of it.
March 7th, 2007 at 7:23 pm
WOW! I really disagree with you. I was at that show last week and I am a big fan of the Tartes and I must say that what I saw was the complete opposite.
Those girls are clever, classy, fun, inventive and obviously sexy. I don’t know what strip clubs you are going to but I haven’t been to another BURLESQUE performance that comes close to this let alone a strip club. For those of you who weren’t there…
There was no actual nudity in the first number. The musical choices were completely different then other burlesque and the ideas were unique charming and different. And I didn’t see a single wall street type in that crowd. I guess to each their own. I would really love to know of both a strip club and another burlesque show that you think blows them out of the water. Have you been to other burlesque shows in NY?
March 12th, 2007 at 2:24 pm
I LOVE burlesque outfits!
March 5th, 2008 at 8:15 pm
Geek on the Street.
You need to do your research before you critique any other burlesque shows, because you don’t know what you are talking about! I’ve seen these girls at Don Hills, The Slipper Room, and at Coney Island and these girls are the real deal. Obviously trained dancers, athletic and their routines are pure genious! These ladies are both beautiful to look at, and hillarious. They put on a great show every time!