Julie Atlas Muz, Burlesque Performer

Julie Atlas Muz, a prolific conceptual performer and choreographer in New York, “sucker punches” the boundaries between performance art, dance, and burlesque with dark, come-hither performances. In addition to participating in the 2004 Biennial at The Whitney Museum of American Art, Muz will present two evening-length shows: The Rite of Spring at the Dance Theater Workshop, March 24–25 & April 2–3, and Treasure Box at the Coral Room, May 21. As a contemporary dance choreographer, Muz has presented her own solo and group work at performance art venues such as P.S. 122, HERE, The Performing Garage and Art at St. Anne's Warehouse, Chashama, LaMama, The Kitchen, and Dixon Place. You can see Julie Atlas Muz perform regularly in New York at the Va va Voom Room, Joe’s Pub, Galapagos, The Slipper Room, The Coral Room, the Marquis, The Palace of Variety, and a host of other locations. www.julieatlasmuz.com

The World Famous *BOB*, Burlesque Performer

There are boobs and there is *BOB*, New York City’s self-described “female-female impersonator,” whose special skills consist of boob aerobics, break-dancing (in six-inch heels), and cleavage martini-mixing. *BOB* has performed at local and international venues, clubs, and festivals including The Pyramid Club, SqueezeBox, The Slipper Room, Wigstock, Les Bains in Paris, and The Life Ballin (Vienna), one of the world’s largest AIDS fundraising events. A member of The Velvet Hammer burlesque troupe in Los Angeles, *BOB* has performed at the Tease-O-Rama burlesque conventions in New Orleans and San Francisco. *BOB*’s film and television roles are numerous and varied, which include music videos for David Byrne, The Lunachicks, and Space Monkeys; roles in two films by Daniel Falcone–Downtown Darlings 200; and a starring role in Diary of a Bombshell. Look for *BOB* in the upcoming made-for-cable documentary, “The Art of Cleavage” on the A&E Network.

Patrick Bonomo, Creative Producer

A global marketing and advertising corporate executive for 20 years, Bonomo resigned from the corporate world to find his artistic voice. Having started planning private and corporate events between NYC and the Hamptons, Bonomo expanded his services into an entertainment production company, collaborating with night clubs, cabarets, and high profile private clients throughout the City and the east coast, showcasing sensational talent culled from Manhattan’s Lower East Side, the Village, and his birth place Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Mr. Bonomo’s company and theatre piece, 2want2: The New Bohemia, takes the burlesque revival and the art of cabaret theater to the streets of New York City where it belongs. 2want2 tells a story that must be told about redemption in the avant garde underground. www.212thenewbohemia.com

Miss Dirty Martini, Burlesque Performer

International sensation, Miss Dirty Martini is one of the most recognized names in the burlesque industry. In her native Manhattan, Miss Martini has delighted audiences with her Fan Dance, Balloon Striptease, Dance of the Several Veils, Shadow Strip, and other classic burlesque revivals in venues such as The Slipper Room, Bombshell, The Red Vixen Burlesque, The Supper Club, Joe’s Pub, Spa, and infamous gay leather bar, The Lure. Martini is a featured performer at The Va Va Voom Room and Fez, and performs annually in Coney Island at Burlesque by the Beach. In May 2001, Martini won First Runner Up at the first new burlesque convention Tease-O-Rama in New Orleans and the Sally Rand Award for Fan Dance at Dixie Evans’ Exotic World burlesque museum in California. Other west coast performances include the El Ray Theater in Hollywood and Tease-O-Rama in San Francisco.

Andrea Fraser, Artist

Andrea Fraser was born 1965 in Billings Montana, and studied at the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program, School of Visual Arts, New York, and New York University. Her numerous international projects, solo exhibitions, and solo performances have taken place at Kunstverein in Hamburg; Pat Hearn Art Gallery, New York; Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York; Galerie Christian Nagel, Cologne; 24th Bienal de São Paulo; Kunsthalle Bern; American Fine Arts, Co., New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Barcelona; The Venice Biennale, Austrian Pavilion; and The Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford. Her work is included in numerous group exhibitions, including “Image Streams,” The Wexner Center for the Arts; “En Route,” Serpentine Gallery; “Exposition d'art contemporain,” Biennale de Gonesse; “Shoot the Singer,” Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; and “Museum as Muse,” Museum of Modern Art, New York. She has been awarded fellowships and awards from Art Matters Inc., The National Endowment for the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, and the Franklin Furnace Fund for Performance, and has taught at Columbia University; the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College; Department of Art, UCLA; and Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia.

Karen Finley, Artist

Karen Finley is an artist and mother of Violet. She teaches at Art and Public Policy, New York University. She is currently available for psychic portraits. To book an appointment email psychicportrait@aol.com.

Mother Inc. (Yvonne Force Villareal and Sandra Hamburg), Songwriters and Performers

In 1984 Yvonne Force and Sandra Hamburg met each other while studying at Rhode Island School of Design. In 1987 they started working together to write a song called "Megacolon" after visiting the Walter Reade Medical Museum in Washington DC. In 2001 Yvonne Force of Art Production Fund produced a FISCHERSPOONER performance in LA, when by chance one late night she sung "Megacolon" for them. Subsequently FS asked Yvonne and Sandra to record the song on their "#1 Album" and started to perform as special guests with FS. As the years went on both ladies had babies while pursuing their art world careers. The trials and tribulations of social pressures while being a working mother launched the formation of Mother Inc. in 2004. They have collaborated with music producer, DJ Big Jimmy Fingers (aka Nicholas Butterworth) for the new releases "Nipple Confusion " and "Under the Scalpel".

Tigger (James “Tigger” Ferguson), Performer

Actor, go-go dancer, and performer, Tigger has performed in classic and original plays at La MaMa, PS 122, the Ohio Theatre, the Knitting Factory, Theatre for the New City, 78th Street Theatre Lab, HERE, Central Park, galleries, and elsewhere Tigger started erotic dancing in Penny Arcade’s Bitch! Dyke! Faghag! Whore!, which toured through Europe and Australia, and returned to Vienna’s WienerFest Wochen with Penny Arcade as an actor, dancer, and contributing writer. A regular performer with The Va Va Voom Room, Fez and Show World, Tigger has collaborated with Tiny Mythic, performed in Coney Island’s “Burlesque at the Beach,” at Spy, Shine, P.S. 122, KGB, The Slipper Room, and is a recurring guest performer at Bombshell! shows, The Marquee/The Slide, Galapagos, and Le Scandal. One of the original performers in Red Vixen Burlesque at Flamingo East, Tigger has also performed throughout the U.S. at the Henry Fonda Theatre, Hollywood; The Shim Sham Club, New Orleans; The Five Spot, Philadelphia; Talkhouse, the Hamptons to name a few..

The Wau-Wau Sisters, Performers

Since this sibling duo took the stage together three years ago, the Wau-Wau Sisters’ unique and saucy combination of aerial and circus skills, original songwriting from country to rock to rap, costuming, and cliché make for a night of fun-filled surprises. Their unique show has been paired with such diverse acts as the gloriously never-was Kiki and Herb, post-punk electro band Le Tigre, the generation-crossing Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players, the questionable cult band ?, and the Mysterians. The Sisters have performed at such venues as Fez, Warsaw, The Mercury Lounge, CBGB’s, the Hammerstein Ballroom, and Joe’s Pub. Other media exploits include "The Isaac Mizrahi Show" with Rosie Perez, NPR’s "The Next Big Thing," and "The Sharon Osbourne Show.”

Lisa Kirk, Performer

Lisa Kirk is a native New Yorker. She received her BFA from the School of Visual Arts and her MFA from the University of California, Irvine. Since graduating, she has exhibited in galleries and museums in New York and Los Angeles. She has also curated several multi media projects, most notably
The Outlaw Series 2003 (www.theoutlawseries.com). Presently, she is preparing for her first solo project at Participant, New York. Ms. Kirk’s work is included in the permanent art collections of the National Library of Congress, The Long Beach Museum of Contemporary Art, and in the archives of PS 1, White Columns, and Artists Space. She lives in Manhattan and teaches at Cooper Union. Performing "Riveting Rosies" with Vanessa Walters and special guests Jeremiah Clancy + Matt Dugas.

Vanessa Walters, Performer

Vanessa Walters is a dancer and choreographer. Since receiving her degree in dance from NYU (1990), she has performed and choreographed with Jordanna Toback, Lee Nagrin, Nancy Zendora, Kay Nishikawa, Amy Cox and Aviva Geismar at PS 122, Joyce SoHo, Dance Theater Workshop and St. Mark’s Church. Since 1998, Walters has danced and choreographed for Fischerspooner at London’s Royal Festival Hall, New York City’s Deitch Projects, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, and the Pompidou in Paris. Walters choreographs and directs her own dance troupe in collaboration with the UncleFucker, the Brooklyn bluegrass/punk rock group. Walters has choreographed performances at fashion shows in New York City for designers Elisa Jimenez and Danielle Collins of the Not Ugly clothing line.