Behind Burlesque explores the real people behind the glitzy stage personae. It features forty contemporary burlesque performers in around 150 exclusive photographs, created in the studio, at live shows and on fantasy location shoots. The photographs are accompanied by the performers explaining their motivations, influences and aspirations in their own, often very revealing words. Beautiful and inspiring, insightful and surprising, this takes you not just 'behind the scenes', but right inside the minds of these underrated and misunderstood performance artistes as never before.