Miss Vicky Butterfly

"Part Burlesque starlet, part innovative performance artiste, part music hall Vaudevillian, and all dreamer. But don’t be fooled by her impish allure - Vicky Butterfly’s elegant, classic style comes with a twist.
The daughter of an Irish showgirl and an eccentric Viennese aristocrat, her shows reflect her unusual background, with clouds of butterflies that fly out from her clothes as she hovers en Pointe. 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.
She is a Carnival Queen with a show-stopping 17” corseted waist, a doll, a butterfly, a peacock, a swan, a silver-screen siren, a sorcerer - and anything her imagination can create! Fusing old-school glamour with even older-school strangeness as well as an up-to-date sense of humour and fun, her performance background includes ballet, tap, circus, acting and even opera.
As well as having all the style of Hollywood's Golden Age or a Victorian ingénue she is also clever with a mischievous sense of humour. As such, she is currently collaborating on a book - on Carnys, no less.
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 costumier (honed during a degree at Central Saint Martins) ensure a range of spectacular and unique costumes and corsetry. As an avid collector, her wardrobe is a museum of eclecticism and contains almost 1000 pieces of original vintage.
With her magical repertoire, elaborate wardrobe, 8ft cresent moon and her own travelling Victorian Vaudeville Theatre, Vicky adds the essential flair of mischief and mystery to any show.
Catch her if you can..."
Performing since 2002, Vicky Butterfly has appeared in:
Music videos for The Fratellis, The Kings of Leon, The Hoosiers, Elliot Minor, Girls Aloud, Fear of Music and Scott Matthews.
On TV in ‘A Waste of Shame’, 'Fear of Fanny’, 'WAGs Boutique' and 'Identity'.
On film in ‘I Want Candy’, ‘Wolf!’ and three other independent films. Adverts such as ’Imperial Leather Foamburst’.
Magazines such as Italian Vogue, Disorder, Tank, Stimulus, Tales, Bizarre, Alternative Magazine, Night, Metro, Kill Pop.
Theatre in ‘Victorian Values'.
She will be appearing in a forthcoming book featuring British Burlesque performers by Neil Kendall and an art book about The Midnight Society as well as collaborating on a book of her own on Carnys (she is also writing a novel).
She has danced on stage with numerous bands (including the Sohodolls, The Puppini Sisters and Cuckoo Savante), as well as being in a few of her own.
She is a model for Mint Siren lingerie (who have named a set of tassels after her), Vivien of Holloway, the face and body of both Tonia Bastyan and Deadly Nightshade, and was the cover girl for the 2008 'What Katie Did' retro lingerie calender.
She is also still a practising artist, with an exhibition of her work due later this year.
Acts include:
Peacock Lament, Victorian Butterfly, 'Where The Wild Roses Grow', The Swan Bride, a variety of 1930s Fandances, Dream A Little Dream (with 8ft rocking cresent moon that can also be suspended aerially), a Serpentine dance, Salome, Ziegfeld Showgirl, 'Let Them Eat Cake', Living Doll (with real revolving key - and soon with lifesize toy theatre!), 'Want To Buy Some Illusions?', Black Feathers, Jessica Rabbit, 'Never Was There a Woman Like Gilda' (Rita Hayworth), Womens' Liberation...and more!
*NEW:IN THE NEXT FEW WEEKS*: The Red Shoes, Gone With The Wind (The Garnet Gown of course!)
"Miss Vicky Butterfly is lush. She has the extraordinary curves, the bee-waist and ripe thighs of a Regency poule de luxe crossed with a Bettie Page vixen's face... all of us at the table, irrespective of gender, have developed minor crushes and we watch mesmerised as the butterflies that cover her pearly bosom flutter off on to the floor... making delicious little moues, she engages us in flirtatious eye-contact: when the peacock feathers waft from Miss Vicky's body during her Peacock Lament, it doesn't matter if you temporarily lose the ability to wield cutlery. But we had fun. Whoop whoop and hell, yeah."- Marina O'Loughlin, the London Metro
“…wittily deadpan…(her) way with feathers gave me faith in burlesque.” -Time Out
“...an amazing highlight of the night.” -Slingshot Studios
"...the provocative form of Miss Vicky Butterfly...an artist that will carry a stylish, mischevious show that unites love, music and performance... very spicy, but never vulgar.” -Micca Club, Rome
"Perfection incarnate. And an amazing dancer!" -Gentry de Paris
"Nymph-like..." - The Metropolitain Hotel
"Spectacular... a corsetted Isadora Duncan with the grace of Steichen's 1920 photograph on the Parthenon's steps." - Alternative Magazine
“Vicky Butterfly is one of the most original and best dressed Burlesque performers I’ve seen... She performed last month and we had to have her back IMMEDIATELY! Move over Dita!’’ - One For The Lovers
"Spectacular." - View From The Top Gallery
"Togged up in breath taking outfit, Miss Butterfly injected life and ooh-la-la into the ballroom, while dancing to the tinkling of a musicbox...I was sent to a dreamy state for 5 mins." - SP: 'Loose Lips, Hot Gossip'
"Retro Burlesque performer Mistress... Sheer elegance!" - Nikkie Amouyal (Rockabaret), The Londonist
"Talented" - Night Magazine
"The Dainty Ecdysiast" - Kittie Klaw
"The evening opened with a bang with the fabulous Miss Vicky Butterfly..." - QueerID
"Demonic Darlings" - Alternative Magazine (on Les Enfants Terribles)
Vicky Butterfly has performed and occasionally modelled at:
43 South Moulton Street Members Club,
Adam Street Private Members Club,
AKA,
Beautiful and Damned,
The Bedlam Ballroom (Belfast),
Bestival,
The Big Chill House,
Blind Tiger,
The Bloomsbury Ballroom,
Bloomsbury Bowling Lanes,
Bonobo Presents...
The Brickhouse,
Bright Young Things/The Strokes after-show party,
The Cafe de Paris,
Cannes Film Festival (Cannes),
Crystal,
Cuckoo Savante (band),
Divan du Monde (Paris - made famous by Toulouse Lautrec!),
Download Festival,
Dresden Dolls curated cabaret night,
Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster after-show party,
The Erotic Awards,
The El Cid theatre (Hollywood),
Fashion Week VIP Room (Metropolitain Hotel),
The Flashmonkey,
Gentry de Paris (Paris),
The Great Eastern Hotel,
Gypsy Hotel (London & Cork),
The Hanbury Ballroom (Brighton),
Hip Hip,
Home House,
The Hootchy Kootchy Club (Stockholm),
The Hoxton Music Hall,
Koko,
Lady Luck,
Latitude Festival,
Le Lup (Paris),
Les Pin-Ups invitent au Sens (Paris),
London Chocolate Week,
London Fashion Week VIP Room,
The Lost Society,
Love On The Rox,
Loungelover,
M1NT Private Members Club,
The Marie Antoinette DVD launch,
Mark Powell's tailoring show,
The Met Bar,
Micca Club (Rome),
The Ministry of Burlesque,
The Modern Times Club,
Murder Suicide presents... (Paris),
Never Too Busy To Be Beautiful cosmetics,
The Nomura bank Christmas party,
Pangea,
Pink Drinks Party (London Fashion Week),
The Proud Gallery,
The Puppini Sisters (band),
Shoreditch Festival Parade,
The Red Letter Cabaret (Dublin),
The Rex (private members cinema)
Robert Gordon gig,
The Ruby Slipper,
The Scala,
SIN,
The Sohodolls (band),
The Soho Revue Bar,
Stranger Than Paradise,
Supergrass album launch,
Tease @ 3's (L.A.),
The Theatre Museum,
Tonia Bastyan,
Torture Garden,
Trepan Records,
UK Bartenders Guild,
Umbaba,
V&A Museum,
The Volupte Lounge,
The WAGs Boutique,
The Whoopee! Club...and more!
She is a resident performer at the Volupte Lounge and is a regular at Rockabaret at the Cobden Club.
Her costume work includes designs for Miss Polly Rae of Hurly Burly Cabaret, the West End play 'On Religion', 'Couture Clubbing' fashion performance, three costumes for 'Jack The Ripper' short film for The Vincent Razorbacks, props and costume for the cover of an Alison Moyet album, and pieces for Agent Provocateur's 2006 Christmas Windows. She was also assistant to the fabulous Miss Hussy: Burlesque Costumier.
She is sponsored by Vivien of Holloway.
The Hoosiers: 'Cops and Robbers'
The Fratellis: 'Chelsea Dagger' .. ..
Elliot Minor: 'The White One Is Evil'
Kings of Leon: 'On Call' (tour projection)
Scott Matthews: 'Passing Stranger'