Performers for HBF ´12 ( alphabetical order)
Bettie Bottomdollar: ( UK, Switzerland)
Burlesque Bombshell Bettie Bottom Dollar burst onto the scene in 2009 with her troupe the Knickerbocker Glories. Bettie performed all over the UK, including top London Cabaret haunts such as Volupte and Cafe de Paris, before being whisked away to snowy Switzerland. Bettie continues to tease and enchant audiences across the continent with her cheeky, theatrical shows.
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Bettie Blackheart:
Big Bad Bettie Blackheart, Hellsinki hellcat; The founder and president of Helsinki burlesque since 2007. Performer and Queen of the firetassels, sanctioned by Satan´s Angel, the Devil´s own mistress. Ripped out from a cartoon this woman can bring you energy and exitement or a tragic lovestory filled with slavic passion. She will take to hell and whisk you back to a nordic viking saga.So beware of those eyes she is a devil in discuise.
She is also headmistress of Suomen Burleskinstituutti.
QUMMA ART
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Blackbird Burlesque Cabaret: (Sweden)
The blackbirds are: Lola van Dyke, Miss Diamond, Contessa Blackbird, Pepper Potemkin, and Granma.
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The Buxotics – Irrepressible bump n grind! ( UK / FIN)
LouLou D’vil and Luna Rosa are exquisitely presented to you as The Buxotics. A burlesque duo made up of two of the most respected and admired performers in the world of burlesque and striptease in the present day. As solo performers they are dangerously enchanting, bringing their own take on classic burlesque and glamorous exotica to stages across the world. Together, they are immeasurably tantalizing, as they prove that you can NEVER have too much of a good thing.
Photo Juha Laine
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Cleo Viper & Christopher Wonder: ( US / ITALY)
Christopher Wonder lives and works as a fulltime magician, designing elegant, controlled, chaotic disasters that unfold beauty before disbelieving eyes. Tattooed and victorian, grotesque and silly, cruel and naive, sinister and funny, disturbing yet beautiful, Christopher Wonder is a mess.
Wonder’s audiences have teetered between a shutter and a giggle since his first departures from reality at the age of six, when young Christopher dazzled them, armed with nothing more than his grandfather’s magic kit. Graduate from the Chavez School Of Magic, Christopher Wonder toured the United States for years, with his psychic pig and his old truck full of confettis and tricks…incredibly stunning for both kids and adults. He stopped in Los Angeles, just in time to be part of the 90’s revival of Vaudeville and Burlesque, performing with the most famous neo-burlesque troupe in the world, The Velvet Hammer.
Cleo Viper: A genuine dreamer, chocolate lover, sparkling charleston dancer.
Accidentally born in Milan (Italy) the 6th of November 1986, her heart and soul are lost between the lavishness of the late 19th century and the crazy flappery elegance of the early 20′s. Fancy, hypnotic, eccentric and bizarre. Rare.She went to the University, she started to collect vintage foulards and antique jewelry, she decided to live her life as her greatest show.That’s when she brought burlesque to Italy: co-creator and choreographer of the first Italian Burlesque troupe Voodoo Deluxe back in 2007, she now keeps performing and shaking her ass independently by her own ever since.
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Thee Dizzy Daisies: They are Sandy Jungle, Gigi Praline and Pepper Sparkle
Thee Dizzy Daisies is a burlesque trio that was born when the members, Sandy Jungle, Gigi Praline and Pepper Sparkles, realised they all shared the same ideas about burlesque and had the desire to create bigger and more extravagant, ravishing numbers. The Daisies offer a fresh and entertaining combination of classic and neo-burlesque, full of twists and humor but always mysterious and seductive!
Photo Saara Salmi
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“Erochica Bamboo” ( Japan): The hotter than Wasabi, long time Caberet and Burlesque dancer from the land of the rising sun! Performing around the world! Winner of Miss exotic world 2003! Dixie Evans called her “The Tokyo Tornado”
Producer of TOKYO TEASE! The new sensational Burlesque show in Japan! Teacher and founder of the ” Tokyo Burlesque Academy”.
Photo Don Spiro
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Exotic Luna Rosa: (UK)
Exotic, melodic, and oh so hypnotic…..Distinctive in her style, Exotic Luna Rosa is the epitome of classic exotica, a reincarnation of performers of yester-year, a supreme embodiment of the old school: of wild jazz, of classic bump n grind, of instinctive rhythm and sensuality. Exotic Luna Rosa is an international performer with an international sense of creativity, known as the “undisputed queen of exotica”, one of the best burlesque performers in Europe, and who has worked with some of the best performers in the world. Powerful, statuesque and oh so feminine, she takes the audience to another world with exotic, melodic mystery.
Photo Neil Kendall
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Frank Doggenstein: Hellsinki Hotdog, Godfather of Manlesque. Strong yet sensitive, Frank shows you the soft side of the Malboro Man.
Photo Kerttu Malinen
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Hedoluxe (GER):
Hedoluxe-makes life more beautiful!
Olivia Rouge:
“Real Lady with a Rock’n’Roll twist! Olivia Rouge, Finland’s own hot curvy red head has been melting audienceshearts since 2008 all over Finland and other countries like USA, Italy and UK, and is notplanning on stopping yet. Known for her very versatile acts, you can be sure that surprises are on the way! Get ready for the heatwave!”
“Delicious” – Seattle Weekly , “Fierce diva” – Village Voice, “Obscenely comedic” – Heeb Magazine
It could be the elephant trunk attached to her crotch, or the dozens of blown up latex gloves surrounding her torso, but you just know that sultry bombshell on stage isn’t your uncle’s burlesque dancer. She’s Miss Indigo Blue — and get ready, because she’s one comely coquette that will leave you panting for more.
For the last fifteen years, this “neo-burlesque” entertainer has titillated crowds across the world with her wild tassel-twirling techniques and smart, sexy, and funny skits. With a strong dance and theater background and extensive experience as a stripper, Miss Indigo Blue brings sensuality, musicality, eroticism, and humor to her carefully crafted routines. Miss Indigo is known for her creative and hilarious surprises, erotic dance skills, detailed and authentic retro 1930’s-1960’s costuming, and naughty reduxes of popular characters like Holly Golightly, Carmen Miranda and Wonder Woman.
Miss Indigo has performed across the globe, most recently Toronto, Helsinki, Stockholm, Shanghai, Lisbon, Dublin, London, and Amsterdam. She has a national following, having taught and performed in New York, Chicago, Denver, Las Vegas, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Miss Indigo is a four-time award winner at the annual Miss Exotic World competition, and the current Reigning Queen of Burlesque, Miss Exotic World 2011.
With many other accolades to her name, in 2008 she was selected by Heeb Magazine for the “Heeb 100”, won “Sexiest Eyes” at the New York Burlesque Festival, and starred in the documentary film “A Wink And A Smile” about her Seattle-based Academy of Burlesque. Seattle’s burlesque stalwart, Miss Indigo is one of the most sought after performers in the nation and currently performs as a soloist, as well as in Swedish Housewife Productions, with Lily Verlaine and Jasper McCann Presents, and with the Atomic Bombshells.
Photo Paule Saviano
Among the first to start teasing and delighting audiences in Finland; The Itty-Bitty Tease Cabaret has been performing regularly – and a lot – since the start in 2008.
The girls have been shaking it all around the country, form Helsinki to Lapland and all the way to the hall of fame in Las Vegas. The Itty-Bitty Tease Cabaret’s burlesque is everything from feathered sirens, 50ft women, giant hummingbirds to voodoo skeletons.
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Kiki Hawaiji
Photo Tiina Salminen
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Koko La Douce (GER)
Koko La Douce is one of the big burlesque performers of germany. Born in Switzerland, she made Hamburg her home. Married and two kids, she is also an actress and singer. 4 years ago she touched and went for Burlesque. Koko participated at burlesque festivals such as London, Amsterdam, Italy … She created her own revue in Switzerland and in april 2011 she stared in the movie “Burlesque Assassins”. This will be seen about in the end of this year. In summer 2011 she worked USA with her tournée. Know she just started “Kokos school of burlesque” in Hamburg and this will hopefully be the beginning of a new era of burlesque in Hamburg.
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Lola Vanilla
“Lola Vanilla is a Finnish drag queen stretching borders between drag and burlesque, classic and grotesque, soothing and disturbing. Lola’s acts vary from Marilyn Monroe tributes to conceptual art performances about flesh, gender and sexuality. You never quite know what you will see, except that it will be beautiful and weird.”
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LouLou D’vil – Untamed glamour from the arctic
She was born in to a country of thousand lakes and spellbinding emerald forests. Her exotic beauty, blazeing eyes and passionate charisma has made her to become one of the brightest performance artists in Europe. Notorious for her fierce reincarnation of seductive vintage glamour, and bump’n’grind burlesque, she tantalizes audiences all over the world from Milan to Las Vegas, always delivering the finest for them. With her statuesque 37-22-37 figure she excites her audience in to booming howling and vibrant stomp.
This versatile artist is best known for her luxurious, voluptuous and creative acts inspired by ravishing showgirls of 30’s-50’s, innovative fashion, fantasy and surrealist fairytails. She mixes skillfully classic striptease with breath taking stories, dash of magic and a lot of professionalism. LouLou D’vil is always sensual, provocative and even fatal, but never plain.
* Winner of Best Debut 2011 / Burlesque Hall of Fame weekend, Las Vegas.
* 1st runner up in Queen of Burlesque 2011 competition / New Orleans Burlesque Festival
Photo Kaylin Idora
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Lucie Goodness & Rudie Ruthless
Zap! Woosh! Bang! Lucie Goodness as Lucky Lucie and Rudie Ruthless as Boris the Lion Tamer! This family duo brings you top hats, mustache and moments of three-penny circus extravaganza while tidying up the stage like proper maids.
Photo Jari B. Miettinen
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Miss Anne Thropy (FR)
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Miss Botero ( FRA)
Probably one of the first french burlesque performer still active today after 25 years on stage. A lot of plump glamour and tons of BBW attitude!
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Satan´s Angel, The Devil´s own Mistress
Satan´s Angel visited Helsinki Burlesque Festival in 2010 and set the finnish audience on Fire leaving them wanting more! Since then many things have happened on her career, on top of everything “Satan´s Angel -The Movie” , a full lenght documentary made of her life by Tony Marsico and Joshua Dragotta. She is also putting out her autobiography at the beginning of 2012. So, this Burlesque legend is on Fire and we are honoured to have her as our guests for our 5th anniversary festival! Shortly a little bio for those of you who do not yet know her;
-In 1961 a nice little Catholic School Girl from San Francisco started Dancing, and a Star was Born!. A Legend of Burlesque Satan’s Angel set the World of Burlesque aflame – Literally – with her signature Fire Tassel-Twirling Act, in which she twirled Five Flaming Tassels Simultaneously! Satans Angel billed as the Exotic Dancer Straight out of the Mouth of Hell! Legend and still Queen of the Fire Tassels, and the Devils own Mistress! Has performed at renowned Burlesque Night Clubs,Theaters, Cabarets, etc. Including Minsky’s, Barry Aston, and Ann Corio in Las Vegas for over Ten years! As well as across Europe and the Far East, South America, Canada. She has been featured in dozens of Pinup Magazines today and yesterday, as well as Time and Bizzare. Radio, Newspapers, featured in Movies, Gypsy Rose Lee’s Television show, Documentaries, Music Video’s, HD with Dan Rathers, Current, Oxygen, and Logo TV. She also appeared on Johnny Carson, the Maury Povich Show 4 times, traveled with the USO tours in Vietnam, sang in an all-Girl Topless band and has performed her stage act over 25,000 times! She still performs for many Pageants today, such as, Miss Exotic World, Boston Burlesque Expo, The Burlesque Hall of Fame, Teaseorama, Feathers and Lace! Angel now lives and is semi Retired in Palm Springs, California.
Photo C. Hutcheson
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Scarlett Martini (IT)
Classic Bloody Sparkling Burlesque. As Art Director of the Burlesque Garden, (the most important Burelsque Festival in Italy) she brought the best of the international Burlesque to Viareggio, turning the City of the Carnival into a pyrotechnic fellinian circus. She has been performing around Europe and blossomed in Japan and Canada her sparkling talent had enthusiastic reviews either by the critics and the audience. Her sensual irony will spice you up. She also featured together with Kitten De Ville, Roxy Armitage Shanks, and other important performers in Jonathan Joffe’s movie “Burlesque Assassins” that will be out in 2011. After a Spring European Tour, her next step was a 21 day tour that will spread her sensuality in the United States along the California Coast and Seattle. She has worked with the best Burlesque Performers and Miss Exotic World…and the best is yet to come!
Photo Stephano Pedretti
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Scotty The Blue Bunny (US)
Since 1996 Scotty the Blue Bunny has performed his special brand of spandex-clad spectacles from Nashville, Tennessee (Panty Raid Burlesque) to Helsinki Finland (Helsinki Burlesque Festival). He sings, speils, offends, cajoles, fiddles, twirls baton, and busts really big balloons with his butt. Basically, he’s gotten a lot farther in a bunny suit than anyone should.
Hosted major events (Yard Dogs Roadshow at the Filmore, SF, Dresden Dolls at Webster Hall, NYC, 9 years of the New York Burlesque Festival NYC, Hootchie Kootchie Club Stockholm Sweden, and Pride of the Greater Lehigh Valley, PA) as well as been a featured performer in the world’s finest Cabaret presentations (La Clique in the World Famous Speigeltent at NYC and the Sydney Festival, Supperlcub SF, Amsterdam, and London, 3 national tours with the Bindlestiff Family Cirkus and Teatro Zinzanni’s Mezzo Lunatico, Seattle WA).
Photographed by Terry Richardson, featured in Ad campaigns, perhaps Scotty’s biggest acheivement so far might be appearing as a hallmark greeting card. In any case – Scotty has been there done that in a bunny suit and can’t wait to continue. Look for new productions of his solo cabaret “The Rabbit of your Dreams” on tour in 2012″.
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Sir Willy Waterlily
Strong slavic blood runs through his veins. He is a man, an entertainer and a hedonist. The dramatic dandy of your dreams. He is Sir Willy Waterlily.
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Sydni Deveraux
Burlesque entertainer Sydni Deveraux hails from Seattle, Washington. She has performed internationally and in such acclaimed shows such as The New Orleans Burlesque Festival, Amsterdam Burlesque Festival, The Slipper Room, Moisture Festival, Seattle Erotic Arts Festival, Seattle International Film Festival, Tease-o-Rama and of course-the “superbowl of burlesque”-Exotic World (also known as) The Burlesque Hall of Fame.
With beautiful exotic features, at a statuesque and very leggy 6’2″, she is one of the tallest established performers in the business.
Sydni’s charming performance style is an entertaining mix of wit, finesse and sophisticated musicality.
“The Golden Glamazon” is a trained jazz singer, host, teacher of performance and burlesque privately and through Miss Indigo Blue’s Academy Of Burlesque. As a producer of over 100 successful shows over the last few years- including Seattle’s longest running weekly review with a rotating cast “Burlesque Behind the Pink Door” (in The historic Pike Place Market)-Sydni Deveraux has been a fixture in the burlesque community for over 6 years.
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Welma Jackpot
Hysterical hostess Welma Jackpot will be pairing up with Scotty the Blue Bunny.
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