Alt-Fest

Part Burlesque starlet, part innovative performance artiste, part music hall Vaudevillian, and all dreamer...

Whether it's clouds of butterflies that fly out from her clothes as she hovers en Pointe, a Kinetic glittering crescent moon or a Lynchian slant on Weimar era erotic dance, Vicky Butterfly's beautifully choreographed routines take in everything from the ethereal and the breath-taking to the macabre and the erotic: with influences including Anita Berber, Loie Fuller, the Marchesa Luisa Casati, Maya Deren and Rita Hayworth. her performances evoke influences from the Pre-Raphaelites and French literature to Surrealism and more...

The daughter of an Irish showgirl and an eccentric Viennese aristocrat, her work reflects her bohemian background: fusing classic glamour with dreams, innovation and an up-to-date sense of fun and showmanship. Her performances incorporate her background in theatrical design, ballet and lyrical dance as well as elements of the aerial arts, acting and opera as well as an insatiable desire for literature, history and travel.

Always in demand internationally from Paris to Bali, she has an enviable roster of clients (including Beefeater Gin, Roberto Cavalli, the Sugababes, Kensington Palace, the Casino di Venezia and the Paris Ritz), sparkling reviews and can frequently be seen on covers and in the pages of exclusive magazines around the world, in music videos and stadium projections by top bands (including The Verve, Kings of Leon, Queens of the Stone Age and Paul Weller) and adding her unique style to film-sets as far away as Bollywood!

Not only is Vicky a classic beauty with a true vintage look and an all natural 34-22-34 figure (and show-stopping 17" corsetted waist), but her skills as a trained theatre designer (honed at the celebrated Central Saint Martins) ensure a range of spectacular and unique costumes, corsetry and eye-catching, unique props (she can even perform floating on the surface of water) such as her swinging mirror-ball moon, scale Victorian theatre, giant Faberge egg mirrored music box, fire platform or living snow globe.

Catch her if you can...

"I am really looking forward to my first appearance at Alt-Fest: It's very exciting to share a bill with so many artists I admire, and I am very excited to be bringing one of my favourite performances to your stage!"

– Vicky Butterfly

Vicky was a founder member and curator of The Boom Boom Club, which ran from 2006 - 2012 with successful runs at The Bathhouse, The Old Vic Tunnels and The london Wonderground as well as many other public and corporate engagements.

She now helps create, designs and is a performer in residence at The Black Cat Cabaret: an ground-breaking and award winning ("Best Production" - London Cabaret Awards 2014) immersive cabaret experience launched with a sell-out year at the Cafe de Paris and now running every friday and saturday at the Cafe Royal with a run at the London Wonderground this summer.