Thread: Length

Hi I'm new on here and new to burlesque although I worked as striptease artist and pole dancer for a number of years in London. I just want to know how long your set should be. Do you dance for one or two songs, or should you be on stage for longer?
All advice much appreciated:help:
Ruby Reveale aka Sara Lee

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My routines vary - the shortest is less than 3 mins, the longest is about 6mins. It depends on your act. Personally I prefer shorter routines as I think when something's too long, it gets boring - I saw a routine once where the performer used about 3 or 4 songs and only actually did a striptease during the last song and I know I was bored, I thinka few people in the audience were, especially since there wasn't a "storyline" with it - my routines all have a character or a story to them.
It's personal preference I suppose

Thanks for such a quick reply, I thought it would be good to get the benefit of those with experience, as I said earlier we used to do one song for each performance but sometimes stretch it out to two though that was a struggle towards the end lol. Many thanks Dani,
Ruby x.

You may find these previous threads on this topic useful:

http://www.ministryofburlesque.com/b...-too-much.html
http://www.ministryofburlesque.com/b...c-dilemma.html
http://www.ministryofburlesque.com/b...ck-length.html

My thoughts, summed up:

For a storyline routine, as long as it needs to be to tell the story in a clear way, get across everything to the audience etc., without having too much unnecessary length which might make it boring

For a non-storyline routine (fan dance, balloon pop, straight strip, etc.) long enough to tease but not long enough that it bores the audience with too much repetition - in my mind this is about four minutes max ...

i hadnt thought about much of how long a routine but very helpful