Great night out: for the open minded; loved-up couples; girly nights out.

Morning after effect: Trying to get "Ooobie-doobie-doo, baby I love you-oooo" out of my head

Recommend to friends: Absolument! Although perhaps not the prudish ones...

See again: Hell, I want to be in it!

Best bit: There were three: Jungle Fever, Scanner and Up & Over It

Walking into the lush underlit Belgian circus tent behind Royal Festival Hall, you're instantly enveloped in warm, gooey decadence. Waitresses in black peplum dresses pad about quietly with drinks trays, whilst guests languidly pose for photographs on the cowskin chaise lounges dotted around. Pink chandeliers twinkle above your head, and there's a tangible excitement in the air.

This famed cabaret was founded in 1951 by Alain Bernardin, who was fascinated by American culture, and created the show with a view to focus on creative art and the female form.

For anybody dismissing this as glorified striptease, they would be hard-pressed to find strippers who could perform en pointe in ballet shoes and sky-high Louboutin heels.These are dancers, first and foremost.

Introduced by a hectic black and white video sequence of the girls in their dressing room, the troupe of 10 dancers appear on-stage, clad in a very unorthodox version of the Buckingham Palace guard uniform, complete with bearskin (I didn't hear of any grannies fainting, but I doubt the Queen will be introducing this new dress code any time soon).

The scenes form  no overall narrative, and last a little over four minutes each, as not to cause "nudity fatigue". This also makes the vignettes more memorable. These vary from a bored secretary, (in my opinion, too contrived), a dancer artfully removing her clothes whilst balancing on a lip-shaped couch, to one with a near-full cast, dancing in time with horizontal beams of light at times protecting or highlighting parts of their bodies. My favourite was to be the caged leopard scene -alternately enticing and menacing throughout.

As with any cabaret worth its salt, a comedy piece is a must-have. Enter Irish duo Up and Over It of Youtube and Riverdance notoriety with a very entertaining hand-drumming sketch involving a large table, lots of (fake) cocaine, swigging from champagne bottles - and a mean right hook.

We were enraptured throughout the whole evening - at two hours it is shorter than your  West End musical - but all the more alluring for it. These ladies bring sexy to the Southbank.