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Ahoy and welcome to Candy Trips.
I'm Melissa and today
we're at the first Berlin Burlesque Festival.
So pack your fascinators and pasties
and come along!
Lucky us, we get to go backstage.
DRESSING ROOM - GENTS
We won't take this seriously.
It's all blurred today,
man, woman, ***, ***...
It smells of make-up and hair spray here.
And glitter.
Old acquaintances.
I'm Mama Ulita.
Today I'm responsible for tidying
and entering the stage. It's called stage kitten.
My name is Reuben Kaye.
And I'm the conferencier tonight.
I need someone to put my dress on.
But can you check the bra?
Everyone wants you to do up their dress. Me too.
Can you pull this tighter, can you do it up?
It's more complicated for women.
I think I met the only performer from Berlin.
You are...
My stage name is Little Miss Pissed.
That sounds very promising.
I always wonder how you start.
So you started by doing go-go.
That's right. As a child I did ballet.
When you were little.
Yes.
Ballet, go-go, and burlesque
just started to happen. Freestyle, so to speak.
Did you ever feel awkward changing on stage?
You have to be a natural...
About it.
You almost want to get undressed
and stick those on. But you can't on YouTube.
How come they have those tassels on them?
Well, something is moving,
you can use them for teasing,
you can make them rotate in all directions,
if you know how.
I'm with the delightful Marlene von Steenvag.
You're the organiser of the event.
Yes, with Else Edelstein
who also does Bohème Sauvage.
We're thrilled to do this.
During preparations, we were so happy.
The ribbons arrived, and the prosecco cans,
and we thought it's going to be lovely.
People will be happy.
There is so much love in all the details.
We want the performers to feel good
and the guests, too.
We hope everyone feels at home here.
We're actually filming.
Should all security look like this?
I also think women should wear
more attractive outfits.
Always. At the office, too.
That would be great.
Even the police.
Well, then.
Please go in.
Let's take our seat.
It's not always easy sitting with a corset.
You're very upright and not hungry.
I'm all hoarse from cheering so much
coz it was just so cool.
If they were newcomers,
I don't know what's next.
I hope you had fun watching, too.
You can watch my other clips here.
I'll see you next week. Thanks for watching. Bye.
Subtitles by Stephanie Geiges