Bare Elegance and Back to Deja Vu

Bare Elegance and Back to Deja Vu.

There's a simple pattern forming. Morley and I go out to a club other than Deja Vu (North Hollywood), get bored, and end at Deja Vu. We'll admit our review process is a bit biased because we're visiting the unreviewed clubs before peak times. However, we feel that we're still able to get a sense of the ambience and quality of the place.

For example, this week we went to Bare Elegance (formerly Valley Ball Cabaret) on Sepulveda in the Valley. We got there about 7 and we made up half the audience. OK. We counted five girls working.

It'd be too easy to immediately trash review the place but instead I'm going to give the girls some props. Sure, they sported a variety of tattoos but bless them they didn't zombie their way through songs and worse for them they were competing with the NCAA tournament on the telly. When they came around they were polite, cute even, but not conversationalists. At least, not with us. With such a small audience they should have tried.

The DJ was somewhat clueless with the music and stage directions, calling out specials when really why bother? There were only four of us. The music was a bit too loud. The stage lighting was a tad too dark

We left and likely won't return anytime soon.

Back to our favorite haunt, to our...OK, my favorite dancer Never Tame. Morley found himself fixated on one of the waitresses and rightly so. The waitresses at DJV are something else. They are easily as sexy and, when cleaning the stage, entertaining as most of the dancers. They're soooo nice.

Watching Never Tame again (and again) I realized that part of her magic, in addition to her tremendous personality, is that she's one hell of a dancer. She dances to and interprets the music. I've yet see her repeat a dance. Each one has been different.

Morley and I both found ourselves intrigued by Hennessy, a rather exotic-looking Indian (?) dancer with a fantastic body. However, we never saw her on the floor asking about dances.

Another week and DJV continues to reign.