feature dancers? what's the draw?
LeeH
Georgia
Tuesday, July 27, 2010 4:15 AM
The only club that I've been to that has "feature dancers" is the Pink Pony. I think I've been there on 4 nights when they had one (out of the 15-20 times that I've been there). Shit, that's $200 just in covers. ;-)
Anyway, there wasn't a one of them that could dance her way out of a wet paper bag. They all looked like they watched the club dancers for 5 minutes and thought "I can do that".
What's really annoying is that the club dancers can't dance when the feature is on. The last time a feature was there, I was with a great dancer who *really* knew how to dance -- very sexy and seductive. I don't do VIPs at PP (my one VIP there sucked and it was the club's fault, so I'm not gonna try with another dancer), but I was ready to drop almost as much on LDs from this girl as if we had gone to VIP.
Then the feature came out, and everything ground to a halt. Fortunately, the dancer I was with was very fun just to hang with, so it wasn't a total loss. She was actually more interested in watching the feature than I was. And the feature couldn't dance worth shit. The sexiest out-of-the-ordinary thing she did was to mock-fellate a rolled-up poster of herself, that she eventually gave to someone. I think she might have been a porn star, which might explain her having freakin' posters of herself.
I kept talking down the boring-ass feature (trying to back-hand compliment the dancer I was with) and she walked the line between agreeing with the customer and making sure I wasn't a spy for club mgmt. ;-)
But I just don't get it. You have 25 dancers sitting on their asses doing nothing, not earning any tip-outs for the club. If they weren't already with someone when the feature came out, they can't be "cultivating" the next customer either. And the DJ is busting his ass trying to get the crowd revved up (if it wasn't for alcohol, he would've had no shot at all).
I realize that some club owners are business idiots (witness the Tiffany's/Clydesdale's/Diamond Club debacle here in Atlanta), but what is the idea behind feature dancers other than to suck money from the club?
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