Tucson Adult Entertainment: Tucson’s Black Cherry Burlesque revives a lost sensual and empowering art
Despite the fact that interest in burlesque began to decline in the 1960s the style seems to be regaining momentum. There may be many reasons for this, and it changes depending on whom you ask, but the easiest answer just might be that it’s different and refreshing.
“It’s just a really fun alternative style of entertainment that our culture has been missing for the last 50 years,” says Miners. “When it disappeared in the ‘60s, I think it became such a sensory overload with pornography and strip clubs and in-your-face sexuality. And burlesque is intelligent, it’s subtle, it’s comedic, it’s an entertainment that we don’t get to see on reality TV. It’s a lost art, and I think the value of that never went away, it’s just being revisited, and it’s a kind of art that is just so magnetic that people are starting to catch on.”