Is it breaking news? Well, no. Is it Dita Von Teese dancing around naked on YouTube? Why, yes it is. In a recently posted YouTube clip, the Queen of Burlesque swims about nearly nude in an enormous absinthe glass. The Woman Who Dared to Marry Marilyn Manson has been in the news a lot lately, what with the publication of her new book, Burlesque and the Art of the Teese/Fetish and the Art of the Teese, and related public appearances. "Polaroid27" was thoughtful enough to upload a two-minute, sixteen-second clip of Von Teese doing her now infamous absinthe glass dance in her diamond thong.

Dita's career in burlesque began in 1993 as she made a hobby of collecting men's magazines from the 1930s and 40s. In these magazines, there were not only cheesecake photographs of her favorite sex goddesses, but also pages and pages of the burlesque dancers from the era. Dita first began performing her tribute to Sally Rand's feather fan dance at one of the biggest fetish events in the US in 1993, and in 1996, she tipped her hat to striptease icon Lili St Cyr by taking a champagne bath in a crystal-clear glass bathtub. Her unsurpassed showmanship earned her the spotlight as the headlining performer at all three years of Teaseorama, the most highly publicized and attended showcase of the burlesque revival and she has since toured the United States and Europe as a solo performer. In 2002, Dita was singled out with rave reviews from Variety and The Los Angeles Times for her "girl in the glass" solo performances with Carmen Electra's Pussycat Dolls, and the film Charlie's Angels II features a nightclub scene that pays tribute and gives acknowledgment to Dita's trademark act. During a run of performances in Hollywood, Dita caught Hugh Hefner's eye and put her on the cover of Playboy's coveted Holiday Gala issue showing off her astonishing sixteen and half inch corseted wasp-waist and a featuring a fabulously luxurious ten page pictorial of her signature 40's style.

Vaille

Farmington, NM

December 2005

APR 07, 2006 09:53 AM

Arrrggghhh...

/flop

My heart. Help.

Margot_Dent

Los Angeles, CA

February 2004

APR 07, 2006 10:04 AM

flaaaawless

so....pretty.....gah

Poison

SUICIDEGIRL

Kentucky, USA

APR 07, 2006 10:18 AM

my goddess.

I met her once and think that I actually spoke in tongues.

i___zombie

USA

June 2003

APR 07, 2006 10:18 AM

I like it, ... isn't it supposed to be an Absynthe glass, with a sugar cube?

Quirky

Birmingham, AL

October 2005

APR 07, 2006 10:26 AM

I need a new keyboard. This one has a hole in it.

dingoes8

Milwaukee, WI

March 2004

APR 07, 2006 10:30 AM

What crazy alternate MTV station aired that?

Kundalini

Kalamazoo, MI

June 2004

APR 07, 2006 10:53 AM

Easily the best video clip I've seen in ages...

FreakPirate

Canada

November 2002

APR 07, 2006 10:57 AM

Dear Santa...

Farhaad

Arcadia, CA

February 2005

APR 07, 2006 11:08 AM

Whoa.

Someguysteve

USA

September 2005

APR 07, 2006 11:12 AM

There is a god.

jrave

Italy

January 2004

APR 07, 2006 11:20 AM

holy cow, there ARE still decent things on MTV! well, MTV somewhere....

ZPO

Roy, WA

July 2004

APR 07, 2006 11:22 AM

Yowza....

That absinthe is some powerful stuff.