title: The League of Exotic Dancers: Legends from American Burlesque
author: Kaitlyn Regehr
description: <br />"<em>The League of Exotic Dancers</em>--much like a dancer's performance--combines immaculate preparation with dazzling presentation. Kaitlyn Regehr's text and Matilda Temperley's images offer new perspectives on an under-researched area of performance and shine a light on the complex relationship between dance, eroticism, and the older women." -- Deborah Bull, Assistant Principal at King's College London and former Creative Director of the Royal Opera House <br />
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  Chapter One
  
  
  
  
  
  Rhiannon’s Law #27: When you’re working in a gentlemen’s club and one of your
  dancers takes off those heels, alert the big guns, an ass kicking is on the
  menu.
  
  
  Lacey finished her set and started working the room. The flashing lights from
  the stage mixed with the saturated cigarette and cigar smoke to create a fog
  effect that surrounded her shoulders in a swirling vortex. Her body was slim
  and tan inside a white rhinestone bikini, full hips rotating from side to side
  like a broken linebacker as she prowled to a table with men in expensive
  business suits. She bent low, full red lips whispering huskily and plastic
  breasts straining provocatively. Perfect legs flexed as her spine tilted back,
  three-inch clear, plastic heels with goldfish floating inside giving added
  height and muscle tone.
  
  
  Any good dancer knows how to work the clientele, and Lacey was a pro. She
  raked in a majority of the house take, and her regulars came from miles around
  just for a private. She wa