Chippendales

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The Chippendales in Las Vegas with three female guests

The Chippendales , or Chipps for short , were founded in Los Angeles in 1979 by Somen "Steve" Banerjee and Bruce Nahin as a show dance group that is specifically dedicated to the entertainment of female audiences. The founders Banerjee and Nahin owned a nightclub called Destiny II. After several attempts to conduct this profitably, Paul Snider presented the two operators with a striptease dance show, which consisted exclusively of male members. This idea became the characteristic and name of the club. It was chosen by Nahin because the club had Chippendale- style furniture .

With a professionally choreographed show - a mixture of dance, singing and striptease - the young men of the Chippendales perform worldwide. Her trademark are white collars with black bow ties and white cuffs on the wrists. A show lasts - plus a break of around 20 minutes - around an hour and a half. Then the viewers can have their photos taken with their favorites.

The Chippendales are based in New York City and also have offices in other countries, including London . There were five groups in the mid-noughties. Four of them occurred in the United States : on the west coast , on the east coast , in Boston and in Las Vegas . The fifth troupe toured every year in Europe and was also in 2005 South Africa .

criticism

A book by former East Coast show announcer David Henry Sterry reports on steroid and drug abuse and alcoholism among members of the East Coast Chippendales.

Carmen Böker ironizes the choreographies as a box of chocolates of stereotypical masculinity, accompanied by self-reinforcing screeches of applause. Which collapses again and again in view of "the more sporty than animating deposits". She basically asks whether it doesn't also serve sexism mindlessly when dancing men undress in front of women, and vice versa.

Web links

Commons : Chippendales  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Chippendales - The history of the Chippendales. Retrieved June 12, 2019 .
  2. ^ Revealing the Chippendales , Daily Telegraph , Sep. 20, 2007
  3. ↑ 60 SECONDS: David Henry Sterry , Metro, September 11, 2007
  4. ↑ "Take off, take off!" , Die Zeit , December 3, 2018