BIO
Venus Thirsttrap is a multi-disciplinary cabaret artist
with a strong performance background. She has been
training pole dance to an advanced level for 8+ years.
Her other skills include a blend of circus arts including
fan-dancing, aerial hoop and clowning combined with
over-the-top costuming and burlesque sparkle. She
holds an A* A-level qualification in theatre.
A proud queer performer she loves to perform in LGBTQI+
venues where she feels most at home.
POLE DANCE +
circus
An experienced pole dance performer with over 10 years
training and performing. Also offers some experence in silk
fan flow, heels dance, aerial hoop and aerial silks.
A Burlesque performer with a signature style, subverting convention by fusing camp characters with of rock and roll, Exquisite costumes are used to create unique work which is authentic and memorable.
BURLESQUE
Artistic
practice
Member of Generation Q, a collective of emerging LGBTIQIA+
artists exploring and creating intersectional theatre . Generation
Q holds a residency at MAC, and offer annual devised live
performance annually, plus mixed media and video projects.
devised
performance
- Watch Venus Thirsttrap find her
feet and get ready to be shell-
shocked by her surreal act. Are
you ready to find out if its more
bisque than risqué?
The spring tease
performance
credits
PERFORMANCES
- Boomtown Fair Festival with Zoinks
Sideshow - Shenanigans cabaret
- CRUSH
- Aerial Assassin UK
- Cliftonville Vaudeville
- Rock n Roll Cabaret
- Infinitease (finalist)
- Mergate Mermaid Festival
- Margate Arts Club
- Screaming Alley
- Queer Cuntry
- Cabariot
TRAINING
- Heel’ography - Dance training
- The Cheek of it school of burlesque -
Spotlight course - Various pole dance instruction
- Phases Studio - Aerial hoop, silks
and trapeze - Various youth theatre
- A* A Level Theatre Studies