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Vancouver has been receiving a dose of sexy over the last two weekends, with dance troupe Army Of Sass taking over the stage at Celebrities Nightclub.
On Saturday, Dec. 7 and Saturday, Dec. 14, the Nuvo Burlesque training and performing group presented "High Heel Revolution": a high energy, high spectacle dance show featuring burlesque, singing, pole dancing, and more.
Women of all ages, shapes, and ethnicities took to the stage, performing an array of choreographed dances to songs like Beyoncé's "Run The World (Girls)."
Check out photos from the "High Heel Revolution":
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Vancouver's Army Of Sass dance troupe took over Celebrities Nightclub on Saturday, Dec. 7 and Saturday, Dec. 14. (credit:Jake Solomon/Celebrities Nightclub)
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Vancouver's Army Of Sass dance troupe took over Celebrities Nightclub on Saturday, Dec. 7 and Saturday, Dec. 14. (credit:Jake Solomon/Celebrities Nightclub)
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Vancouver's Army Of Sass dance troupe took over Celebrities Nightclub on Saturday, Dec. 7 and Saturday, Dec. 14. (credit:Jake Solomon/Celebrities Nightclub)
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Vancouver's Army Of Sass dance troupe took over Celebrities Nightclub on Saturday, Dec. 7 and Saturday, Dec. 14. (credit:Jake Solomon/Celebrities Nightclub)
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Vancouver's Army Of Sass dance troupe took over Celebrities Nightclub on Saturday, Dec. 7 and Saturday, Dec. 14. (credit:Jake Solomon/Celebrities Nightclub)
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Vancouver's Army Of Sass dance troupe took over Celebrities Nightclub on Saturday, Dec. 7 and Saturday, Dec. 14. (credit:Jake Solomon/Celebrities Nightclub)
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Vancouver's Army Of Sass dance troupe took over Celebrities Nightclub on Saturday, Dec. 7 and Saturday, Dec. 14. (credit:Jake Solomon/Celebrities Nightclub)
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Vancouver's Army Of Sass dance troupe took over Celebrities Nightclub on Saturday, Dec. 7 and Saturday, Dec. 14. (credit:Jake Solomon/Celebrities Nightclub)
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Vancouver's Army Of Sass dance troupe took over Celebrities Nightclub on Saturday, Dec. 7 and Saturday, Dec. 14. (credit:Jake Solomon/Celebrities Nightclub)
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Vancouver's Army Of Sass dance troupe took over Celebrities Nightclub on Saturday, Dec. 7 and Saturday, Dec. 14. (credit:Jake Solomon/Celebrities Nightclub)
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Vancouver's Army Of Sass dance troupe took over Celebrities Nightclub on Saturday, Dec. 7 and Saturday, Dec. 14. (credit:Jake Solomon/Celebrities Nightclub)
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Vancouver's Army Of Sass dance troupe took over Celebrities Nightclub on Saturday, Dec. 7 and Saturday, Dec. 14. (credit:Jake Solomon/Celebrities Nightclub)
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Vancouver's Army Of Sass dance troupe took over Celebrities Nightclub on Saturday, Dec. 7 and Saturday, Dec. 14. (credit:Jake Solomon/Celebrities Nightclub)
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Vancouver's Army Of Sass dance troupe took over Celebrities Nightclub on Saturday, Dec. 7 and Saturday, Dec. 14. (credit:Jake Solomon/Celebrities Nightclub)
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Vancouver's Army Of Sass dance troupe took over Celebrities Nightclub on Saturday, Dec. 7 and Saturday, Dec. 14. (credit:Jake Solomon/Celebrities Nightclub)
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Vancouver's Army Of Sass dance troupe took over Celebrities Nightclub on Saturday, Dec. 7 and Saturday, Dec. 14. (credit:Jake Solomon/Celebrities Nightclub)
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Vancouver's Army Of Sass dance troupe took over Celebrities Nightclub on Saturday, Dec. 7 and Saturday, Dec. 14. (credit:Jake Solomon/Celebrities Nightclub)
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Vancouver's Army Of Sass dance troupe took over Celebrities Nightclub on Saturday, Dec. 7 and Saturday, Dec. 14. (credit:Jake Solomon/Celebrities Nightclub)
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Vancouver's Army Of Sass dance troupe took over Celebrities Nightclub on Saturday, Dec. 7 and Saturday, Dec. 14. (credit:Jake Solomon/Celebrities Nightclub)
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Vancouver's Army Of Sass dance troupe took over Celebrities Nightclub on Saturday, Dec. 7 and Saturday, Dec. 14. (credit:Jake Solomon/Celebrities Nightclub)
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Vancouver's Army Of Sass dance troupe took over Celebrities Nightclub on Saturday, Dec. 7 and Saturday, Dec. 14. (credit:Jake Solomon/Celebrities Nightclub)
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Vancouver's Army Of Sass dance troupe took over Celebrities Nightclub on Saturday, Dec. 7 and Saturday, Dec. 14. (credit:Jake Solomon/Celebrities Nightclub)
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Vancouver's Army Of Sass dance troupe took over Celebrities Nightclub on Saturday, Dec. 7 and Saturday, Dec. 14. (credit:Jake Solomon/Celebrities Nightclub)
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Vancouver's Army Of Sass dance troupe took over Celebrities Nightclub on Saturday, Dec. 7 and Saturday, Dec. 14. (credit:Jake Solomon/Celebrities Nightclub)
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Vancouver's Army Of Sass dance troupe took over Celebrities Nightclub on Saturday, Dec. 7 and Saturday, Dec. 14. (credit:Jake Solomon/Celebrities Nightclub)
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Vancouver's Army Of Sass dance troupe took over Celebrities Nightclub on Saturday, Dec. 7 and Saturday, Dec. 14. (credit:Jake Solomon/Celebrities Nightclub)
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Vancouver's Army Of Sass dance troupe took over Celebrities Nightclub on Saturday, Dec. 7 and Saturday, Dec. 14. (credit:Jake Solomon/Celebrities Nightclub)
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Vancouver's Army Of Sass dance troupe took over Celebrities Nightclub on Saturday, Dec. 7 and Saturday, Dec. 14. (credit:Jake Solomon/Celebrities Nightclub)
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Vancouver's Army Of Sass dance troupe took over Celebrities Nightclub on Saturday, Dec. 7 and Saturday, Dec. 14. (credit:Jake Solomon/Celebrities Nightclub)
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Vancouver's Army Of Sass dance troupe took over Celebrities Nightclub on Saturday, Dec. 7 and Saturday, Dec. 14. (credit:Jake Solomon/Celebrities Nightclub)
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Vancouver's Army Of Sass dance troupe took over Celebrities Nightclub on Saturday, Dec. 7 and Saturday, Dec. 14. (credit:Jake Solomon/Celebrities Nightclub)
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Vancouver's Army Of Sass dance troupe took over Celebrities Nightclub on Saturday, Dec. 7 and Saturday, Dec. 14. (credit:Jake Solomon/Celebrities Nightclub)
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Vancouver's Army Of Sass dance troupe took over Celebrities Nightclub on Saturday, Dec. 7 and Saturday, Dec. 14. (credit:Jake Solomon/Celebrities Nightclub)
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Vancouver's Army Of Sass dance troupe took over Celebrities Nightclub on Saturday, Dec. 7 and Saturday, Dec. 14. (credit:Jake Solomon/Celebrities Nightclub)
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Vancouver's Army Of Sass dance troupe took over Celebrities Nightclub on Saturday, Dec. 7 and Saturday, Dec. 14. (credit:Jake Solomon/Celebrities Nightclub)
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Vancouver's Army Of Sass dance troupe took over Celebrities Nightclub on Saturday, Dec. 7 and Saturday, Dec. 14. (credit:Jake Solomon/Celebrities Nightclub)
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Vancouver's Army Of Sass dance troupe took over Celebrities Nightclub on Saturday, Dec. 7 and Saturday, Dec. 14. (credit:Jake Solomon/Celebrities Nightclub)
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Vancouver's Army Of Sass dance troupe took over Celebrities Nightclub on Saturday, Dec. 7 and Saturday, Dec. 14. (credit:Jake Solomon/Celebrities Nightclub)
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Vancouver's Army Of Sass dance troupe took over Celebrities Nightclub on Saturday, Dec. 7 and Saturday, Dec. 14. (credit:Jake Solomon/Celebrities Nightclub)
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Vancouver's Army Of Sass dance troupe took over Celebrities Nightclub on Saturday, Dec. 7 and Saturday, Dec. 14. (credit:Jake Solomon/Celebrities Nightclub)
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Vancouver's Army Of Sass dance troupe took over Celebrities Nightclub on Saturday, Dec. 7 and Saturday, Dec. 14. (credit:Jake Solomon/Celebrities Nightclub)
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Vancouver's Army Of Sass dance troupe took over Celebrities Nightclub on Saturday, Dec. 7 and Saturday, Dec. 14. (credit:Jake Solomon/Celebrities Nightclub)
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Vancouver's Army Of Sass dance troupe took over Celebrities Nightclub on Saturday, Dec. 7 and Saturday, Dec. 14. (credit:Jake Solomon/Celebrities Nightclub)
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Vancouver's Army Of Sass dance troupe took over Celebrities Nightclub on Saturday, Dec. 7 and Saturday, Dec. 14. (credit:Jake Solomon/Celebrities Nightclub)
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Vancouver's Army Of Sass dance troupe took over Celebrities Nightclub on Saturday, Dec. 7 and Saturday, Dec. 14. (credit:Jake Solomon/Celebrities Nightclub)
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Vancouver's Army Of Sass dance troupe took over Celebrities Nightclub on Saturday, Dec. 7 and Saturday, Dec. 14. (credit:Jake Solomon/Celebrities Nightclub)
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Vancouver's Army Of Sass dance troupe took over Celebrities Nightclub on Saturday, Dec. 7 and Saturday, Dec. 14. (credit:Jake Solomon/Celebrities Nightclub)
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Vancouver's Army Of Sass dance troupe took over Celebrities Nightclub on Saturday, Dec. 7 and Saturday, Dec. 14. (credit:Jake Solomon/Celebrities Nightclub)
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Vancouver's Army Of Sass dance troupe took over Celebrities Nightclub on Saturday, Dec. 7 and Saturday, Dec. 14. (credit:Jake Solomon/Celebrities Nightclub)
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Vancouver's Army Of Sass dance troupe took over Celebrities Nightclub on Saturday, Dec. 7 and Saturday, Dec. 14. (credit:Jake Solomon/Celebrities Nightclub)
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Vancouver's Army Of Sass dance troupe took over Celebrities Nightclub on Saturday, Dec. 7 and Saturday, Dec. 14. (credit:Jake Solomon/Celebrities Nightclub)
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Vancouver's Army Of Sass dance troupe took over Celebrities Nightclub on Saturday, Dec. 7 and Saturday, Dec. 14. (credit:Jake Solomon/Celebrities Nightclub)
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Vancouver's Army Of Sass dance troupe took over Celebrities Nightclub on Saturday, Dec. 7 and Saturday, Dec. 14. (credit:Jake Solomon/Celebrities Nightclub)
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Vancouver's Army Of Sass dance troupe took over Celebrities Nightclub on Saturday, Dec. 7 and Saturday, Dec. 14. (credit:Jake Solomon/Celebrities Nightclub)
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Vancouver's Army Of Sass dance troupe took over Celebrities Nightclub on Saturday, Dec. 7 and Saturday, Dec. 14. (credit:Jake Solomon/Celebrities Nightclub)
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Vancouver's Army Of Sass dance troupe took over Celebrities Nightclub on Saturday, Dec. 7 and Saturday, Dec. 14. (credit:Jake Solomon/Celebrities Nightclub)
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Vancouver's Army Of Sass dance troupe took over Celebrities Nightclub on Saturday, Dec. 7 and Saturday, Dec. 14. (credit:Jake Solomon/Celebrities Nightclub)
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Vancouver's Army Of Sass dance troupe took over Celebrities Nightclub on Saturday, Dec. 7 and Saturday, Dec. 14. (credit:Jake Solomon/Celebrities Nightclub)
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Vancouver's Army Of Sass dance troupe took over Celebrities Nightclub on Saturday, Dec. 7 and Saturday, Dec. 14. (credit:Jake Solomon/Celebrities Nightclub)
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Vancouver's Army Of Sass dance troupe took over Celebrities Nightclub on Saturday, Dec. 7 and Saturday, Dec. 14. (credit:Jake Solomon/Celebrities Nightclub)
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Vancouver's Army Of Sass dance troupe took over Celebrities Nightclub on Saturday, Dec. 7 and Saturday, Dec. 14. (credit:Jake Solomon/Celebrities Nightclub)
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Vancouver's Army Of Sass dance troupe took over Celebrities Nightclub on Saturday, Dec. 7 and Saturday, Dec. 14. (credit:Jake Solomon/Celebrities Nightclub)
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Vancouver's Army Of Sass dance troupe took over Celebrities Nightclub on Saturday, Dec. 7 and Saturday, Dec. 14. (credit:Jake Solomon/Celebrities Nightclub)
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Vancouver's Army Of Sass dance troupe took over Celebrities Nightclub on Saturday, Dec. 7 and Saturday, Dec. 14. (credit:Jake Solomon/Celebrities Nightclub)
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Vancouver's Army Of Sass dance troupe took over Celebrities Nightclub on Saturday, Dec. 7 and Saturday, Dec. 14. (credit:Jake Solomon/Celebrities Nightclub)
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Vancouver's Army Of Sass dance troupe took over Celebrities Nightclub on Saturday, Dec. 7 and Saturday, Dec. 14. (credit:Jake Solomon/Celebrities Nightclub)
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Vancouver's Army Of Sass dance troupe took over Celebrities Nightclub on Saturday, Dec. 7 and Saturday, Dec. 14. (credit:Jake Solomon/Celebrities Nightclub)
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Vancouver's Army Of Sass dance troupe took over Celebrities Nightclub on Saturday, Dec. 7 and Saturday, Dec. 14. (credit:Jake Solomon/Celebrities Nightclub)
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Vancouver's Army Of Sass dance troupe took over Celebrities Nightclub on Saturday, Dec. 7 and Saturday, Dec. 14. (credit:Jake Solomon/Celebrities Nightclub)
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Event organizers Vanessa Young and Geneen Georgiev. (credit:Portia Favro)
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Winner Saskia Wedding. (credit:Tiffany Tran)
GiGi La Femme(97 of114)
Known for: Producing and occasionally performing in "Revealed," a fully nude show in Manhattan's East Village. The risque creation became such a hit, the New York Times bid La Femme a pointed farewell when the slower rhythms of Nashville, and a nice man, came calling. Signature act: Performing as her sci-fi doppleganger Princess Leia.Based in: Nashville (credit:La Photographie Nashville)
The World Famous *BOB*(98 of114)
Known for: Playing with gender. From her Robert Smith-inspired stage name to her self-billing as a "female-female impersonator", WFB has a genius for avoiding pigeon holes. She even made a living as a drag queen at one point, despite not needing any drag to be a woman. That's what we call a can-do spirit!Signature act: Mixing a martini in her cleavage. Based in: New York City (credit:Wendell Teodoro, WireImage / Getty Images)
Calamity Chang(99 of114)
Known for: Conjuring an evocative and campy WWII-era atmosphere. The Taipei born, Texas bred performer calls herself "the Asian Sexsation."Signature act: Dancing with black fan in hand to a Japanese cover of "St Louis Blues," a combination Chang calls "sad" and "glamorous."Based in: New York City (credit:Astrid Stawiarz, Getty Images)
Dita Von Teese(100 of114)
Known for: Being the "queen of burlesque," briefly marrying Marilyn Manson, and courting a high-flying audience (especially the fashion elite), by which she's managed to jettison burlesque sensibilities into the mainstream.Signature act: Anything and everything old school -- from corsetting her waist down to 16 inches (oof) to posing in Japanese bondage. Based in: Hollywood and Paris (credit:Evan Agostini, Getty Images)
Julie Atlas Muz(101 of114)
Known for: Mixing sweetness and horror. Jeffrey Deitch, whose gallery hosted one of Muz's exhibits in 2007, compares the sculptural quality and gender play of her work to "the early work of Duchamp and Man Ray. There's a conceptual comedy to it." Aside from looking like living art, the muscular girly girl fulfilled a long-held dream of many 8-year-old selves when she became Head Mermaid at the now defunct Coral Room. Signature act: Taking a (staged) beating as Italian opera plays in the background, and emerging nude and covered in fake blood.Based in: Manhattan (credit:Miguel Medina, AFP / Getty Images)
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Known for: Irreverence, "high camp," being a pioneering male star in a heavily female world. Tigger! (pictured to the right) often gets the Dita-esque moniker of the "King of Boylesque," the term for burlesque as performed by boys.Signature act: Becoming Father McTigger, an altar boy-loving priest who pulls a communion wafer from his shimmering purple thong to the strains of Olivia Newton John's "I Honestly Love You."Based in: New York City (credit:Amy Sussman, Getty Images)
Jo Boobs(103 of114)
Known for: Being to burlesque what William Strunk and E.B. White are to novelists, by writing the definitive guide to her subject of choice, "The Burlesque Handbook." Jo Boobs also presides as the fantastical-sounding Headmistress of the New York School of Burlesque, and rooms with another star on this list, Julie Atlas Muz (who she canoodled with on an episode of "Gossip Girl").Signature act: Wearing a Godzilla mask that hides that pretty face.Based in: New York City (credit:Amy Sussman, Getty Images)
Tempest Storm(104 of114)
Known for: Being one of the longest performing burlesque stars, with a career that began in the 1950s and continues today. The octogenarian known as "The Tempest in a D-Cup" says she was one of Elvis Presley's lovers in her Hollywood days, but even in her 70s, she managed to charm Robert Ebert.Signature act: The "time capsule," as the AP coined it: "She knows nothing of poles. She would never put her derriere in some man's face. Her prop of choice is a boa, perhaps the occasional divan."Based in: Las Vegas (credit:Marcel Thomas, FilmMagic / Getty Images)
Angie Pontani(105 of114)
Known for: Being one-third of the "world famous Pontani sisters," and the closest thing to a household name to come out of New York's scrappy scene. As the host of the traveling variety show Burlesque-A-Pades, she's introducing the country to some of burlesque's biggest stars.Signature act: The "Gold Digger," a crowd-pleaser styled after traditional 1940s acts.Based in: New York City (credit:Cindy Ord, Getty Images)
Little Brooklyn(106 of114)
Known for: Raunchy and comic high-concept acts that usually involve pulling something (or many things) out of her orifices. She's considered as much a comedienne as she is a burlesque star.Signature act: The "Pee-Wee Herman," in which she dresses up like the "Playhouse" host and pulls platonic joke props (rubber chicken, whoopee cushion) out from where they're lodged around her body. Because: "How can you receive a Pee Wee Herman suit and notfind a way to turn it into an act?" Based in: New York City (credit:Wendell Teodoro, WireImage)
Lady Scoutington(107 of114)
Known for: A studied "wide-eyed innocence" coupled with an academic bent (she graduated summa cum laude from Amherst College) that makes for exuberantly self-aware silliness. Case in point: her full stage name is Doctor Princess Lady Scoutington. She's also one of a few out-and-proud female burlesque stars.Signature act: Anything musical, whether its a Broadway medley, or a "glorious ukulele solo."Based in: Los Angeles (credit:Allison Rose de Temple)
Murray Hill(108 of114)
Known for: A 1950s variety show host's showman sensibilities, which has endeared him to Hollywood and TV executives alike as boylesque's answer to Dita Von Teese (whom he emcees for regularly on stage). Signature act: "Have Yourselves A Murray Little Christmas," a retrofitted holiday song that Hill pulls out every December for his annual Christmas show.Based in: New York City (credit:Amy Sussman, Getty Images)
Bambi The Mermaid(109 of114)
Known for: Being the Queen of Coney Island, where she's performed in the annual mermaid parade for more than a decade. Her pantyless, psychosexual hijinks made her a longtime muse of fetish photographer Doris Kloster.Signature act: Eating crickets and goldfish in her "Geek Act," holding Burmese pythons for the "Snake Charmer," dressing as fantastical half-human creatures (not just a mermaid) in "Sideshow." Really, take your pick.Based in: New York City (credit:Andrew Brusso)
Stormy Leather(110 of114)
Known for: Her androgynous good looks and rocker sensibility. We trembled at her perfect bone structure and profile shots in the Magnetic Fields' video for "Andrew In Drag." (She's the dapper gent).Signature act: A Cylon strip routine that involves dressing like a Battlestar Galactica robot and stripping down to the skin.Based in: New York City(Photograph Courtesy Alex Colby.) (credit:Alex Colby)
Legs Malone(111 of114)
Known for: Being "the girl with the 34 and a half inch inseam." A co-producer of New York's Sugar Shack Burlesque, Malone blurs the line between defining herself by her body and transforming it. Signature act: She does a mean Bettie Page.Based in: New York City (credit:Don Spiro)
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Known for: Channeling the 20s with a carefully referential name and skill -- tap dancing, not striptease. Their canniness at transforming into ladies of another era makes them perfect subjects for escapist imagery. Signature act: If Tempest Storm does the "time capsule," the Minskys are operating a time machine. For tapping, swinging and beauty marks, they're your gals.Based in: New York City(Photograph courtesy Jason Goodman.) (credit:Jason Goodman)
Nasty Canasta(113 of114)
Known for: Being one half of a burlesque power couple along with husband Johnny Porkpie, until they called it quits. Luckily the two were together long enough to found Pinchbottom Burlesque, one of the city's most ingenious burlesque spots.Signature acts: Performing as her alter-ego Kobayashi Maru, an android creature.Based in: New York City (credit:Courtesy of Nasty Canasta)
Dirty Martini(114 of114)
Known for: Being a key player in the "new burlesque" movement in New York along with Julie Atlas Muz, The World Famous Bob and other burlesque royalty. In the process, becoming a plus-size poster girl to whom even the bone-obsessed Karl Lagerfield bowed down. Signature act: The "balloon strip," in which she slowly pops a constellation of balloons surrounding her body, closing with a pair in an obvious spot. Winky face!Based in: New York City (credit:Miguel Medina, AFP / Getty Images)
"Sexy dance happens to be a really accessible platform that people of a lot of different ages and backgrounds can tap into and put their own spin on," Portia Favro, a Sergeant of Sass with the Army Of Sass, previously told The Huffington Post B.C. "I like to say in my classes that you can't do anything wrong."
This isn't the first time Vancouver has recently been involved in the sexy dance scene—last month, a competition to crown Vancouver's Next Bombshell also took place at Celebrities.
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