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9 Sep

Intimate portraits of NYC’s underground burlesque community

“The allure of burlesque is its message of acceptance,” explains Latest York-based photographer Natalia Neuhaus. “It’s a judgment-free zone, it provides a protected space where you might be capable of explore your sensuality through dance and teaches you that sensuality can't be defined by age, a selected variety of body, or gender. Every thing we learned growing up about sex appeal and who it should belong to is challenged by every act. The media and the promoting industry proceed to idealise a selected variety of body and glamorise white cis straight people but burlesque is the counterculture to this dominant fallacy.”Having been brought up in what she describes as a “conservative Latin household” with a devoutly religious mother and a...
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