Boylesque 101: Inside The World Of Boys Who Shake And Shimmy

There are whoops and whistles, catcalls and applause mingled in with nervous laughter and Hole’s “Celebrity Skin,” all coming from the small studio above Brooklyn performance space The House of Yes.

Inside, six skinny white guys are watching one of their classmates strip for (what I assume) is the very first time.

Everyone has to do it. That’s what we’re all here for: to learn how to strip.

It’s the first exercise in the first week of Go-Go Harder’s monthlong “Intro to Boylesk” class—all the students have to give an impromptu, three-minute striptease to get us acclimated to taking off or clothes in front of people, and to make us aware of just how long three minutes—the length of your average burlesque number, according to Harder—can feel onstage.  Read More