ナショナルジオグラフィックさんのインスタグラム写真 - (ナショナルジオグラフィックInstagram)「Photos by @iantehphotography Back when I traveled across the world to document workers in the industrial coal pits of China, I returned to my home in East London to encounter a city caught up in a love affair with the jazz age. The contrast in experience was a palpable delight, a relief to the gritty reality I had just come back from. The play "What the Butler Saw" was my escape into something frivolous and lighthearted. It's midnight as we arrive at Die Freche Muse, a burlesque club night describing itself as “irreverent, decadent, sexually ambivalent, and dissolute.” The venue was kept secret until the day of the party. A young female clown greets us with a wink and a flower as we duck under the arches of a slightly run-down Victorian building. Stepping into the lounge is an intimate space, with no more than a hundred guests. Somehow we've pulled back a magical velvet curtain to reveal a scene of swinging skirt hems and wizard-puffs of smoke. Besuited, shiny-shoed characters—their attires influenced by pre-war, post-war, and even Mardi Gras styles, the smell of old-school cigarettes and the sounds of softening Dixieland jazz envelop us. A young woman in front of the crowd dedicates her next performance to the Baron Von Sanderson, our host for the evening, and softly croons a Billie Holiday number. Another woman sashays her way toward the singer and begins a striptease; it doesn't feel choreographed—more like an act of spontaneity. And so commences the soirée of romantic, sensuous, and on occasion, rather amusing burlesque shows. #burlesque #jazzage #london #noir」7月1日 1時38分