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A SLIGHT young woman wearing high heels and a corset mixes shots of flaming absinthe for her audience in a packed Brisbane theatre.
The audience has no idea that Meghann Montgomery is working on a PhD thesis on the art of burlesque dance.
She strips down to a skimpy tutu and starts to dance to the 1960s hit J'taime, by French movie icon Brigitte Bardot.
She moves across the stage in a feline strut called the "burlesque walk"...