“Paris Burlesque brings together sixty portraits of women who welcomed me into their homes in and around Paris, giving themselves over to the game of metamorphosis, just long enough take a picture”.
The New Burlesque is the result of a renewed interest in American music hall from the 1920s and 1930s, a blend of social satire, smut and strip-tease. The modern version, which combines feminism, glamor and a rejection of conventions, is surprising for its energy and artistic potential. Sandrine Elberg seeks truth in the private spaces of these French representatives of burlesque, especially in Paris, a city legendary for its cabarets.