CLUB REVIEW : Be Prepared to Sweat It Out at Pump

At Pump, a new Sunday night dance club at the recently refurbished El Rey Theatre, hosts Mannie X and Eddy X offer a variety of ways to stay in shape. There’s the dance floor: If you can keep up with the mo’- beats- per- minute- than- you- can- shake- a- bootie- to house and Latin house music Eddy X flips all night, you’re sure to work off any excess calories.

Then there’s the main-stage burlesque show, where drag divas sample innovative workout ideas on actual treadmills and stationary bikes and inside a shower stall. A big-flex highlight is the “neck crane”--the exercise most often employed by the predominantly gay patrons attempting to get a good view of the on-stage antics.

The erotically charged night is enhanced by the double-entendre of its “Pump” motif--not only is exercise aplenty encouraged by the hosts, but many party guys and gals also traipse around in the shoes du jour--wickedly high pumps. This presents an even greater dance-floor challenge. Spinning amped-up mixes of such adrenaline-pumping club hits as Lil’ Mo’ Yin Yang’s “Reach,” Gloria Estefan’s “Abriendo Puertas” and Raw Stylus’ “Believe in Me,” deejay Eddy X challenges the spike-heeled audience to keep up with him. Illuminated by a giant disco ball at the base of the main stage and a trio of decadent chandeliers, the dancers rise to the challenge, but by evening’s end an enterprising foot masseuse could make a killing here.

* Pump, on Sundays at the El Rey Theatre, 5515 Wilshire Blvd. 21 and over, $7 cover before 11:30 p.m., $10 after. Hot line: (213) 243-5221.

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The Buzz: The Century Club presents Brazilian-born singer-choreographer Christiane and “The Girls From Ipanema” on Friday. Christiane and the Girls are scheduled to perform a special Thanksgiving revue titled “From Rio to Hollywood,” which promises an audience participation conga line and a giveaway featuring a pair of round-trip tickets to Brazil. . . . Club With No Name reopens next Thursday at the Probe in Hollywood and will once again be open to all ages. The underground live music club’s previous two sites required guests to be 21 and over.

* Century Club, (310) 553-6000. Club With No Name, (818) 985-2231.