"The girl who puts the 'oh!' in Colorado"
"Her Mile High-ness"
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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. Known for her "Timeless Tease" style, this classic coquette has performed around the country and the world, including Miss Exotic World, Tease-O-Rama, New York Burlesque Fest, the Helsinki Burlesque Fest and Miss Burlesque New Zealand. Vivienne is dedicated to increasing the population of burlesque queens in Denver with her monthly "School of Burlesque" lessons. In 2013 she celebrates 15 years on the burlesque stage. Her alter ego, Michelle Baldwin, wrote THE book on the neo-burlesque scene, Burlesque and the The New Bump & Grind. Great video interview about my roots and what I love about burlesque!
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Vivienne wrote the book Burlesque and the New Bump and Grind and is featured in several burlesque books:
- Katharina Bosse's New Burlesque
- Kelly DiNardo's Guilded Lili
- Jackie Wilson's The Happy Stripper
- Chaz Royal's Burlesque Poster Design
- Jo "Boobs" Weldon's The Burlesque Handbook
Press:
I was named one of Westword's 100
Colorado Creatives!
Vivienne
Vavoom: Spreading the Gospel of Glitter- June 4, 2013
Absolutely honored to have a peice on the Burlesque Hall of Fame site
written by my very talented student Jill Rothenberg
There’s
No Pussy-Footing in Burlesque-Aug 10, 2012
by Stephanie Richards
"There was something incredibly liberating about seeing a
grown woman dancing almost naked in a very public museum...Her body was
so luscious, so perfectly feminine and beautiful...Vavoom was radiant,
and her movements were natural. Her dance reminded me of the way it feels
to swim nude in the ocean: a bit naughty, but oh-so-right—preternatural
beauty at its finest."
New
York Burlesque Festival Friday Premiere Party
"Vivienne Vavoom demonstrates the right way to use a half-and-half
costume, turning her puppet upstage and making Drac’s mauling of
her totally convincing, and keeping us engaged without losing more than
gloves."
BurlesqueBeat.com
My favorite review ever, 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."
JD Oxblood
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
- Three
Martini Lunch Radio Show
Delightfully boozy hosts! We talked about burlesque and rum. Two of my favorite subjects! I'm on at about 32:00
- Helsinki Radio They call me 'Vivica', but they're so adorable I don't mind!
- Also in Helsinki I was asked to teach the lovely Hanna a burlesque lesson on a reality show.