Vivienne is featured in several books, including Katharina Bosse's New Burlesque, Kelly DiNardo's Guilded Lili, Jackie Wilson's The Happy Stripper, Chaz Royal's Burlesque Poster Design and Jo "Boobs" Weldon's upcoming book, The Burlesque Handbook

Press:

Very funny/cute review from a young fellow at the Hot IQ's final show:
Hot IQs Farewell Show - June 19, 2009
"The lights go down and Journey's universally beloved/abhorred superhit "Don't Stop Believin'" begins as Pinstripe introduces "Vivienne VaVoom."
A pair of fishnet-clad gams strolls across the stage, their owner hidden behind two oversided blue feather fans.
She has an enormous, lovely smile on her face.
We are offered teasing glances of Miss VaVoom's figure for a while but when she turns tail we are staggered by the force of one seriously inimitable ass.
It is worth noting that almost every single person in the venue is singing along to the song.
Alex almost faints."

Bill Husted's Bar & Grilled
Burlesque star lives for bump, grind, mind
"As Denver's preeminent burlesque queen, she perfects the art of strip tease."
By Bill Husted
The Denver Post
June 04, 2009

"Leadville or Bust" and "The Black Box Burlesque" ***
"a touch of class, a touch of sass and a touch of . . ."
By John Moore
Denver Post Theater Critic
March 20, 2009

Taking it Off Takes Off
Westword
March 13, 2009

Burlesque as It Is
Author and performer reflects on the movement today
By Marisa Demarco
February 12 - 18, 2009

Taking a Page from pinup's book
Modern-day burlesque, punk and rockabilly fans inspired by '50s icon
Denver Post
December 16, 2008

The Candy Gram: Vivienne VaVoom
thecandypitch.blogspot.com
Friday, August 22, 2008

New York Burlesque Festival: Premiere Party at the Bell House
"Colorado’s Vivienne Vavoom is the kind of girl R. Crumb would love. Blond, cute, compact upstairs and Rubenesque downstairs; white sparkly dress, classic...Surprisingly, wicked hot disrobed. A straight-up Greek goddess with legs one aches to climb."
Cultural Capitol
September 25, 2008

Red Hot White and Blue
Catch Stars and Striptease at this USO Burlesque Show
Westword
July 02, 2008

THE BUZZ
Dave Flomberg, Rocky Mountain News
May 1, 2008
"In fact, the only thing that could tear me away was the graduation performance of Miss Vivienne VaVoom's newest batch of burlesque beauties, a uniquely lovely group of babes bookended by performances by Vivienne herself and Fannie Spankings, two seasoned starlets that make any stage beautiful."

Picts of the late, great Pink Elephant club

Club hoppin', March 16
By Alex Neth, Rocky Mountain News
March 16, 2007
"Baldwin, founder of the Burlesque as It Was troupe, might be Denver's busiest human - when she's not performing, writing books (Burlesque and the New Bump-N-Grind), appearing on television (Trading Spaces) or teaching newbies the art of the tassel flip, she's increasing Denver's ambient level of cool simply by leaving the house."

Art of Seduction
Pauline Diamond for The Scotsman
March 11, 2007
Michelle Baldwin, aka Vivienne VaVoom, a burlesque performer herself and the founder of Burlesque As It Was, one of the most respected burlesque troupes in the US, agrees. "I think the nostalgia comes from a basic longing for glamour. There's so little glamour in our modern culture that it makes sense that people on the scene would reach back into the past to a time when full make-up, hats, gloves, corsets and the like were everyday wear."

Saddle up for Wild West Burlesque
Grizzly Rose books boot-scootin' biggies | Champagne dinner
Denver Post
January 05, 2007

10 girls, 9 costumes: now that's what I call burlesque
Twirling nipple tassels, comic eroticism, vulgar fun, burlesque is booming here and in America.Times2 discovers its proud British roots
London Times Online
June 22, 2006

No-Hassle Tassels
September 28, 2006

Burlesquer Bares Brains
Michelle Baldwin and her troupe have peel appeal
By Kity Ironton
June 17, 2004

"The girl who puts the 'oh!' in Colorado" "Her Mile High-ness" "The Timeless Tease" "The Classic Coquette" A versatile vixen of the classic ecdysiasts art, Vivienne VaVoom can generally be found bumping and grinding a mile high in her hometown of Denver. She has performed at various venues around the country and at the Big Three: Miss Exotic World, Tease-O-Rama and the New York Burlesque Fest. She was named "Most Classic" at the Boston Burlesque Expo 2008. That same year she celebrated 10 years of shimmying with the troupe she founded, Burlesque As It Was and in 2009 she helped to open the Black Box Burlesque Cabaret and launched her new troupe V Burlesque. Her alter ego, Michelle Baldwin, wrote THE book on the neo-burlesque scene, Burlesque and the The New Bump & Grind. This gorgeous goddess is sure to charm, with her classically classy brand of tease.

GO-GO Magazine
Burlesque: Babes and Booze? - 12/12/2002