San Antonio Strip Clubs: Dance troupes revive Burlesque
May 6, 2010… We had a Dr. Sketchy’s up in Austin that I modeled for a few times, and then coming down here, the more that I got entrenched in the performing arts scene — not just with burlesque, but also traditional theater — the more I saw that the same people that I was seeing at gallery tours for First Friday or in Tobin Hill were the same people I was seeing in my audiences,” says Stone-Robb, 31, known to audiences as Blue Valentine. “I think there’s more of a relationship between visual art and performing arts here in San Antonio than in almost any other city that I’ve lived in, so it just seemed like the perfect place to do it.”
Neo-burlesque, which began in New York and Los Angeles in the ’90s, has added other forms of dance into the mix, but striptease remains an integral part of the revival. Though performers often get down to panties and pasties, that is where the similarity with strip club-style entertainment ends.