City Paper
Philadelphia, September 12, 2002

Performance Pick of the Week
By Juliet Fletcher

Where over acheiving burlesque and sultry cabaret collide, there you will find the Pontani Sisters. These three New York bred girls, born in a time out of step with their love of flapper girls outfits and fishnets, have been bringing realtime glamour to the dance floorshow ever since they first donned point shoes and hula hoops and realized they could rock them both at the same time. In recent months, their star has risen, as part of the revival of New York Burlesque, now in between teaching monthly go go classes in their hometown and fresh from a trip to the Smokey Mountains to work on a Cherokee inspired dance piece, Angie, Tara and Helen will hit the road making it to Philadelphia in time for this Sunday's Burlesque Review, presented at SIlk City with help from New Hopes' high counter culture emporium, Tin Man Alley. With a repertoire that incorporates a ballet en pointe wrapped around Celine Dion's ode to doomed love and sinking vessels,"My Heart will go on", the troupe comes hither sequins, boas and Elvis inspired jumpsuits may belie their forked tongue humor. Still, call us magpies: when their talent comes dressed with all the glittery gems that twinkle on the hems of their costumes, we're hypnotized.