International burlesque sensation, Miss Dirty Martini, is one of the most recognized names in new burlesque. In 1997, she traveled
to Sarajevo, to perform her show-stopping fan dance to a shell shocked public shortly after the peace accord was signed and the
Serbian siege had ended. Since that time, she has declared herself the first fan dancer to perform in post-war Bosnia. In her
native Manhattan, Miss Martini has delighted audiences with her Fan Dance, Balloon Striptease, Dance of the Several Veils, Shadow
Strip and other classic burlesque revivals in such venues as The Slipper Room, Bombshell, LeScandal, The Red Vixen Burlesque, The Supper Club,
Joe's Pub, Spa, and infamous gay leather bar The Lure. She has performed for Tristan Taoramino’s True Lust book release party and
The Hoboken Historical Society’s first annual Masked Ball. She is a featured performer at The VaVaVoom Room in its successful run
at The Fez on Lafayette Street and she proudly performs every summer in Coney Island at "Burlesque by the Beach".
Miss Martini has performed at the out door, day long marathon of drag performance, Wigstock, in 1999 and 2000. In September 2001,
she performed an astounding and exhausting five different numbers in the show, appearing as a Wigstock Dancer, with the girl group
trio “The Fortunettes”, and with Miss Shasta Cola's huge production number that was slated to end the evening's festivities.
In May 2001, Dirty Martini appeared at the first new burlesque convention, "Tease-o-rama", in New Orleans, and won 1st Runner up
and the Sally Rand Award for Fan Dance at Dixie Evans' Exotic World burlesque museum in California. She has performed twice with
The Velvet Hammer Burlesque at the historic El Ray Theater in Hollywood, CA and returned to the West Coast last September for
Tease-o-rama in San Francisco.
Dirty Martini has been photographed and interviewed for articles in Esquire, The NY Post, New York Magazine, Backstage, Hustler,
The Village Voice, Max, Flaunt and Time Out NY. She has completed two interviews that will be shown on German television, an
interview for the Velvet Hammer Movie and she has been seen on The Metro Channel and Oxygen TV. Miss Martini will appear in several
independent films and book projects including Katharina Bosse’s recent release “New Burlesque” and others regarding the history of
women in burlesque and its current revival in nightclubs and theaters across the nation.
For more info visit www.missdirtymartini.com
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