Burlesque dancers from all over Lancashire came together for an all-night 'burlesque-athon' - in their pyjamas!
Around 30 chair burlesque dancers gathered in the Freckleton Memorial Hall for six hours of non-stop dancing, between 10pm and 4am on Saturday night - all to raise money for Mind UK.
Watch the video.
Around 30 chair burlesque dancers gathered in the Freckleton Memorial Hall for six hours of non-stop dancing, between 10pm and 4am on Saturday night - all to raise money for Mind UK.
Watch the video.
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00:00Tonight we're doing a burlesque-a-thon, so it's six hours of non-stop burlesque chair dance
00:04in our pyjamas with the pugs and we're going live on social media throughout the night to
00:09try and get people to donate towards the cause.
00:16We're just doing several routines, other than taking quick breaks for drink, it's just
00:24continuous dancing for six hours in aid of Mind UK, so we have a Just Giving page for that.
00:37Why are we in pyjamas? Because it's night time, so we wanted to make it fun. Obviously we should
00:44be sleeping at this point, so it was like, oh what a really good theme, let's dance through the night.
00:54Well, I just thought if I needed to buy some pyjamas it needed to be kitsch, so yeah.
01:02I wouldn't normally wear anything like this, but a bit of fun. I would imagine we're not going to
01:06get in till gone five, so yeah I think it will be a bit of a go to bed and just recover and actually
01:12just let our legs sort of ache, because they will ache tomorrow after all this hard work.
01:16There isn't anyone in the UK who hasn't been affected and needs support from Mind UK at some
01:22point, and it's an amazingly fun way to raise money, so I can lose a night's sleep to raise
01:27some money. It's such an empowering activity, especially for females, it's about building
01:35body confidence, it's about making friends, it's all about really empowering females to be
01:41themselves. I just really enjoy dancing with the girls, it's a great group, we have a good laugh
01:46together and it's good exercise as well. So Bella's Chair Dance is a fitness class, we are fitness
01:55instructors first and foremost. It's a sexy ladies only workout, where you can burn up to 500
02:02calories per class, but it's all about getting fit, losing weight, but most of all building confidence
02:07and having fun.