Dirty Martini performing at Exotic World.
Dirty Martini performing at Exotic World.
Miss Exotic World 2004 Dirty Martini performs tirelessly. She is one of the most glamourous, desirable, and recognizable performers in burlesque. She is a legend in New York City and around the world, wherever new burlesque has a fan base.
Dirty at Teaseorama.
Learn how to make your performances stand out, and how to mesmerize an audience. In this class you'll learn how to establish the groundwork for proper burlesque deportment. Lessons include the importance of warming up, establishing beginnings and endings, walking the walk of the fabulous, and presenting a powerful facade of confidence. This class will give you polish you've never had before! Bring heels you will dance in.
Dirty performing at the Va Va Voom Room.
Dirty on modern burlesque:
"Burlesque has taken off in the US. Women from all over the country in cities so small that they barely even have a stage to perform or host burlesque events weekly. Why has this form of entertainment resurfaced? Why are women who could easily be your sister or your girlfriend or even a mom taking it all off for screaming audiences filled with other women? This form has enabled women to voice their opinions without words, to show the world how sexy they are and at the same time start to believe it themselves, besides that, it's fun, that's why!
I started performing classic burlesque routines in New York City in 1997 after choreographing and performing my first fan dance with a touring theater company a few years before. Those fans sat on a shelf while my ideas for other acts simmered and Dirty Martini was born. Since then, the world of new burlesque grew up around me and my family of performers started to grow. I used to know everyone in the country who performed burlesque and now it's grown so large that new performers and troupes are so numerous that even in my own city I can't keep track of them all. Two summers ago when I performed with Cabaret New Burlesque at the Summer festival in Paris, I was a witness to the first new burlesque show there and in London the art form has been thriving with performers for more than three years.
Burlesque is the new punk rock. It offers a way for women to redefine themselves without the limits that society places. My fans often write to me about their own transformations. They don't want to hate their bodies anymore; they want to flaunt what they were born with like I do. Burlesque is akin to drag and I believe that drag defies gender. Some people are crazy about building airplanes and some people need to dress up and wear feathers. Isn't it a beautiful thing! Other things aside from burlesque that inspire me are as follows: Road trips, small and large theater and the humbling experience of ballet class in the morning. People who have harsh opinions and know how to use them. My family both genetic and chosen."
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