The basics of Striptease and its origin.

Regardless of whether performed erotic dances for the sake of the gods, was used in the Comedy "to heighten laughter" or was a front for espionage activities, they always made men's hearts beat faster.
In this art a long history. In ancient Babylon and Assyria in the dance schools, with the temples of the priestesses taught beautiful undress to the music. The name of one of the first performers of erotic dance appears in the Bible. The young Salome danced before Herod, has fascinated the king so much that he received a "fee" that is not dream girls bending at the pole today. A tyrant and a despot promised the daughter to fulfill her every wish and kept his word (that wished Jewish Princess, you can learn from other sources).
It is believed that it was the "Dance of the seven veils" that fall from the dancers one after the other so that in the end she is left almost naked.
In the 19th century in Europe feminine charms were displayed at a fast pace in the paced quadrille, or rather the variety that is called "French cancan". It can call the prototype of the modern Striptease.
The most famous place, which is still enchanting dance the can-can, opened in Paris в1889 year. Thanks to the dance in which the feet were raised above his head, just for one night "Moulin Rouge" has become incredibly popular. Newspapers criticized the dancers did not hesitate in expressions (which cost, for example, the comparison with the dog, lift up the presser foot near the tree), but the number of those wishing to admire the slender female legs grew.
Erotic cocktail of 8 minutes of crazy legs, incredible drive, sensuality and elements of acrobatics dizzy men allowed to consider much more of the female body than was then customary to show. Even pseudonyms for the girls stirred men's imagination. On the posters were the names of Nini –Pat-EN-l'air (Nini – legs up), Rayon d'or (Golden ray), Melena (Dynamite)
The famous singer Kankan Louise Weber, nicknamed La goulue (which translated from French means "glutton", the girl liked to sit down at the tables to visitors and densely to have supper at their expense) have come up with their own interpretation of the dance. During rotation she took the leg, covered by black silk stocking, to the side, so all 60 meters of her petticoats rose up and fell again, then were taken for the foot and raised it above his head, and then fell – literally fell, screaming, on the twine. Say that she shot down his leg the hat from his head to His Highness Prince Gal, who, being on business in Paris, booked a table in "Moulin Rouge" out of curiosity.
At the same time, in America (or rather, a little earlier in 1868-m) shone, "the British blondes" under the leadership of Lydia Thompson, their very revealing outfits shocked the audience – because girls razygryvaetsya humorous skits, dared to ignore the long skirts and appear in the finest stockings and the dresses-shirts, knee-length, showing, Oh, the horror (!) – legs!
Here, in "Moulin Rouge", in February 1893, was shown the first strip (from the English. strip— to undress and tease— tease) – a fact around which legends and conjectures, probably more than lace and frills at the bottom of the skirts of the dancers. But, by the way, I undressed that night not singer Kankan.
There are two versions of events. Version one: the party that gave students of art colleges, artist's model Manon Laville and Sarah brown decided to dance on the tables. Girls used to show their body, because dance was exposed to until left in professional costumes – costumes eve. In the second version, the school held an impromptu beauty contest, in which the model alias Mona was so fascinated that threw off all my clothes, for which he was arrested and fined. They say that her fans besieged the station as long as Mona was not released.
In 1905, on the Paris stage by a dazzling Mata Hari – that whose self-esteem and the ability to write, you can just envy. Leaving aside spies – a simple Dutch girl who had never attended school dances, runs away from her husband in Paris and... creates a legend. Now her father – a Japanese Prince, the mother, the Baroness, she studied dance at the Buddhist monks, her name is not Margaret Gertrude Zelle, Mata Hari "Eye of the dawn". Mata Hari is compared with the Isadora Duncan, however, hardly anyone can imagine Isadora in a suit, which by the end of the speech consists of beads and bracelets... do You still think that "Metropol" and "La Scala" is a "decent" places that only give boring classics? Early last century everything was differently – after all, "exotic" dancer, whose rooms are like on the strip, much stronger than cancan, performed there.

Erotica with elements of the absurd
In 20-e years of the last century in Berlin on the horizon rose the flamboyant star Anita Berber, a dancer and silent film actress. Anita married the homosexual Sebastian Droste, her dance partner, and presented him with a joint program called "Dances of Vice, horror and ecstasy", which featured rooms "the Corpse on the dissection table", "Morphine", "the Night the Borgias". This infamous show was dominated by "equality" – and Berber and Droste were dancing naked.
At the same time, the Paris audience was captivated Josephine Baker a black woman hard to "save" on clothes, for she danced and sang Topless, barefoot, and wearing only had the famous banana skirt.
In prudish England of burlesque, which started as a humorous theatre "mutated" in the erotic theater of the absurd. The laws in the UK entirely was on the side of morality – dance without clothes here were banned, but the ban to stand without clothes did not exist. So the girls went on stage naked, covering his naughty place fans and beads, and... stood still.
Up to 20 years in burlesque was dominated by the Comedy, not erotica. To 20 years female burlesque has finally turned into a Striptease, these words have become synonymous.
In the 60 years of the sexual revolution and the porn industry flourished in full bloom, influenced the interest in the strip, it began to seem pathetic, absurd and ridiculous. Then the owners decided to take the quantity rather than quality. The girls began to dance naked for 35 people at one stage in the "non-stop". Long before the appearance on stage of Michael Jackson, strippers demonstrated in full motion, imitating a sexual act. Burlesque has become an erotic pipeline that was supposed to stop.
However, the patient was more alive than dead. In the 90s there were "new genre", but for erotic "performances" were hiding good old burlesque comic, game strip.
Today "Queen of burlesque" - a bright, charismatic Dita von Teese uses in his speeches to the classical methods. If Lily St Cyr — star of the 50's "swam" in the tub of bubbles, in the case of wee bubbles replaced with a Martini glass. It seems that, thanks Babe Striptease ceased to be something base and vulgar and turned into new fashionable fetish-art. It loves not only the "old playboy" Hugh Hefner, giving 5 turns in the journal. Dita arranged a strip show for Victoria's Secret, Agent Provocateur a nd Trashy Lingerie, she was invited to model for John Galliano, Roland Mouret, Marc Jacobs and Moschino.
In the 21st century, Striptease had become much closer to most ordinary girls and sports — in any self-respecting fitness club, be sure to find a lesson with elements of erotic dance, which not only increases the level of your body and plasticity, gives a cardio-load, but also develops such important quality as your confidence and its appeal. Some elements can be learned at home, alone.
Source: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BF%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%B7