Vicky Butterfly

The daughter of an Irish showgirl and an eccentric Viennese aristocrat, her work reflects her unusual background: fusing classic glamour with strangeness, innovation and an up-to-date sense of fun and professional versatility, her performance technique incorporates her background in ballet, lyrical, modern and flamenco dance as well as elements of the aerial arts, acting and even opera as well as an insatiable desire for literature, history and travel.

Always in demand internationally from Paris to Bali, she has an enviable roster of clients (including Beefeater Gin, Roberto Cavalli, the Sugababes and the Paris Ritz), sparkling reviews and can frequently be seen gracing the pages of the worlds most exclusive magazines, dancing her way through music videos and stadium projections by top bands (including The Verve, Kings of Leon and Paul Weller) and adding her unique style to film-sets as far away as Bollywood!

"Part Burlesque starlet, part innovative performance artiste, part music hall Vaudevillian, and all dreamer...

Whether it’s clouds of butterflies that fly out from her clothes as she hovers en Pointe, a Kinetic glittering crescent moon or a Lynchian slant on Weimar era erotic dance, Vicky Butterfly’s elegant, classic style comes with a twist.

True to the original spirit of Burlesque and Vaudeville, her beautifully choreographed routines take in everything from the ethereal, the breath-taking and the beautiful to the macabre and the comic: with influences including Anita Berber, Loie Fuller, Rita Hayworth and Maya Deren, her performances evoke influences from the Pre-Raphaelites and French literature to Surrealism and more...

A true performance artist with a style all her own, She can be a Carnival Queen with a show-stopping 17” corseted waist, a doll, a butterfly, a peacock, a swan, a silver-screen siren, a living Klimt painting, a sorcerer - and anything her imagination can create!

Not only is Vicky a classic beauty with a true vintage look and an all natural 34-22-34 figure, but her skills as a trained theatre designer (honed during a degree at Central Saint Martins) ensure a range of spectacular and unique costumes, corsetry and eye-catching, unique props (she can even perform floating on the surface of water). As an avid collector, her wardrobe is a museum of eclecticism and contains over 1,000 pieces of original vintage and antique theatre costumes as well as an ever-expanding collection of ephemera.

With her magical repertoire, elaborate wardrobe, 8ft crescent moon, revolving flame illusion platform, giant snow-globe, mirrored carillion with rotating mechanical key, floating bubble and her own traveling Victorian Vaudeville Theatre, Vicky adds the essential flair of mischief and mystery to any show.

Catch her if you can..."

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Vicky can frequently be seen at the well-known variety night she helped found and curates: The Boom Boom Club.