LEGEND: Joan Arline

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Joan Arline: Featured legend of Red Hots Burlesque.

Joan Arline: Featured legend of Red Hots Burlesque.

This broad is beyond missed in the burlesque scene. This week Red Hots Burlesque honors our legend of the week

JOAN ARLINE
d. October 16, 2011

“My father once said I went into show business so I could bleach my hair and not have people talk about me,” Joan Arline, known as the Sexquire Girl, once said. Arline danced all through her youth, beginning classic Russian ballet dance lessons at the age of three, and taking tap, jazz, ballroom dance and more, so it was no wonder that she continued into her adulthood. She auditioned as a New York City Rockette and was accepted, but chose to move to Buffalo, New York to work at McVan’s nightclub due to a waiting period with the Rockettes. She married her first husband, bandleader Don Roth, who was the first to encourage her to begin performing burlesque outright. Her husband would write a little “ripple” in the music in order to cue this energetic dancer to shed her clothing, considering her biggest hesitation with performing as an exotic dancer would be getting caught up in the steps she had trained all of her life to do. Known for performing on a pink furred chaise lounge as well as with a pair of trained Russian wolfhounds, Arline headlined on the burlesque circuit from 1953 to 1958. She retired to have a family. She moved to Detroit, Michigan and opened a dance studio in her basement, which gained popularity to over 100 dancers studying with her. Arline rejoined the burlesque scene 35 years after retiring to join the Palm Spring Follies and after that the Branson Follies. She last performed in 2011 at the Burlesque Hall of Fame as a living legend. Arline passed away from leukemia October 16, 2011.

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