Guest Performers
Cruel Valentine, Chicago's Own Community Chest Photo by bcj
Cruel Valentine
Chicago’s Own Community Chest
Cruel Valentine has spent the last several years honing her burlesque skills on a plethora of stages throughout Chicago and the Midwest. You can find her performing not only as a regular Girlie-Q featured performer, but as a featured soloist with many other productions companies including High Voltage, Varietease, Arkham Noise Productions, Hot and Heavy Burlesque and many others. Fusing her training in jazz, tap, hip hop, swing and ballet, along with her flawless incorporation of an array of theatrical elements, Cruel Valentine continually surprises audiences with her own signature brand of captivating, fun and thought-provoking performance.
DeeDee & Irma
DeeDee Madison, Esq. & Irma Bumstead-Winterbottom
DeeDee & Irma
DeeDee Madison, Esq. and Irma Bumstead-Winterbottom are two salty broads sowing the seeds of delight in the Windy City–and then grabbin’ it by the balls! Combining a highly precise and technically disciplined style of music, dance, and improv, they bring to life such rollicking numbers as NWA’s Gangsta Gangsta and Marky Mark and his Funky Bunch’s classic, Good Vibrations. When not doing burlesque, DeeDee and Irma enjoy making homemade prison hooch, Bedazzling, and cocktails made from gin and ‘tussin. They implore you to support your local burlesque and come to one of our shows sometime. Or they’ll shank you. No lie.
Dizzy Lizzy Delicious, The Wonder from Down Under
Dizzy Lizzy Delicious
The Wonder from Down Under
Hailing from the remote corners of Western Australia, Dizzy Lizzy Delicious is Chicago’s premiere burlesque circus artist. Whether she’s spinning hoops or stamping on a bed of broken glass, with her super skills and sassy stage presence, she’ll charm her way into your heart, your wallet and your pants (if she thinks you’re cute). A graduate of Australia’s National Institute of Circus Arts, Dizzy works with Aloft, Big Dog Eat Child, and Arkham Noise Productions–and when she’s treading on Aussie soil, she’s proud to work with Sugar Blue Burlesque and Bizircus. When not practicing dangerous circus stunts or parading about in her underwear, Dizzy Lizzy spends her time in libraries and bookstores, quietly plotting world domination.
Elena, Elena is Elena
Elena
Elena is Elena
Elena is Elena. She is a performance artist and member of Antibody Dance, a company specializing in movement studies and occult research. She has also performed for Lucky Plush Productions’ Steal This Dance project, performing the fusion form “Cheer-toh” (cheerleading + butoh). When not dancing, she can be found conjuring spirits with her familiar (a chameleon) at your nearest cremation ground.
Tribal Bellydancer Jolie, Skirt Full of Fire
Jolie
Skirt Full of Fire
With a dance background spanning more than seventeen years, Jolie Roberson blends tribal belly dance with hip-hop, ballet, and everything in between. She teaches and performs nationwide and in the Chicago area with various dance and burlesque groups, such as Read My Hips, Varietease, and Hot-and-Heavy Burlesque, as well as with live bands and club acts such as Vicarious. You can find out more about her through her website.
Plucky Rosenthal, Star of Stage and String
Plucky Rosenthal
Star of Stage and String
Chicago native Plucky Rosenthal hails from Chicago. Quips Plucky, “I was born with a banjo in one hand – and a BANJO in the other!” With a unique blend of vaudevillian kitsch and Semitic charm, her enthusiastic array of banjo and ukulele stylings are sure to set your heart a-flutter. Not content to play just one genre of music, or even just one instrument, this lady is a sextuple threat (You will have to ask her what her other skills are) and she can be seen performing on her instruments in all genres. She can also be seen in the hit live LGTB soap opera The Ville and heard on the radio Thursdays 12pm-2pm on 88.7FM WLUW. “This one’s for Plucky!”
Salome Slaughter, Burlesque's Wild Child
Salome Slaughter
Burlesque’s Wild Child
Salome Slaughter has been bringing her eclectic style of high-energy, in-your-face dance to venues across the country and abroad since 2002. The producer of the high-energy, rock-based burlesque outfit High Voltage Burlesque, Salome’s rock n’ roll soul gives a unique edge to her training in jazz, belly dance, Latin, ballroom and swing dances, and aerial performance. She is an actress and alt-model as well as a dancer and incorporates character building, audience interaction and even multimedia elements into her acts. She has performed burlesque with Girlie-Q, Varietease, Suicide Girls, Hot and Heavy Burlesque and many others, and taught belly dance and salsa as far afield as Moscow and Taipei.
Sauda Namir, The Luscious Lady Lavender
Sauda Namir
The Luscious Lady Lavender
Ever versatile and caught between two worlds is Sauda Namir. By day she’s a suburbanite homemaker, and by night Girlie-Q’s resident MYLF. Powerfully provocative, she’s anything but typical. Her acts to Before He Cheats, White and Nerdy (Weird Al’s sendup of Ridin’ Dirty) and a medley from Grease (moving smoothly from “Good Sandy” to “Bad Sandy”) were extraordinarily memorable. The image of her in PBR can rollers is burned in our collective brains! Always daring and deliberate in her style, she’ll have you rolling in the aisles or simply bewitched by her charms. An aspiring alt model, Sauda is also the newest cast member of the World of the Weird Monster Show. Find this dark kitten in regular performances with Girlie-Q, High Voltage Burlesque and Hot and Heavy Burlesque.
Scarlett D'Evil Hot, Hot, Hot!
Scarlett D’Evil
Hot, Hot, Hot!
Scarlett D’Evil is a rockabilly vixen deluxe whose main interests in life are causing trouble, looking pretty and dancing. Her favorite styles of dance are just a few–ballet, jazz, modern, hula, swing (east coast and lindy hop), texas two step, flamenco, tango, rockabilly jive, bop and stroll. She is also a model with experience in the genres of fashion, runway, glamour and fetish with her most recent incarnation being a tattoed pinup dream, appearing recently in Hot Rod and Urban Ink magazines. In addition to her regular appearances with Girlie-Q, Scarlett can also be found performing as a member of Eve’s Parlor and also as one of the naughty performance art troupe SS-Triple X.
Sinre Jinx, The Triple Threat Girl
Siren Jinx
The Triple Threat Girl
Talk about your triple threats! This gal is nothing less than fabulous! Siren Jinx can act, dance and (of course) sing! She grew up with parents (also perfomers) who encouraged Jinx to explore her own creative interests; so she moved on to receive a BFA in acting. Since then Jinx has been performing around Chicago with all sorts of crowds such as: Girlie-Q, Beast Women, Read My Hips, Hot and Heavy Burlesque and Varietease, among others. When not onstage she teaches pilates and practices yoga. Be aware burlesque fans: once you see Siren Jinx, you’ll be hooked for life!
Viva La Muerte, Chicago's Heavy Metal Burlesque Queen
Viva La Muerte
Chicago’s Heavy Metal Burlesque Queen
Viva La Muerte is Chicago’s reigning heavy metal burlesque queen & producer of Hot and Heavy Burlesque. Also known as “the ass with the most sass” Viva is a performer who leaves no stone unturned when it comes to fully exploring the limits of burlesque and performance art. She has been performing in Chicago since 2007, and has also brought her special brand of mayhem to Los Angeles as a 2010 Fangoria Spooksmodel Finalist, and as a performer at the 2009 Texas Burlesque Festival. You can see her performing regularly with her hot & heavy burlesque group, and also with the fine ladies of Girlie-Q, Varietease & many others!
msbea | 
June 4, 2009 4:12 pm
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