Description: Official Website for Peekaboo Pointe, a New York City Based Burlesque & Performance Artist.
Video Artist, Jennifer McCoy said about my work, “Like an artist such as Taylor Mac, Peekaboo is pushing boundaries normally associated with entertainment into a more conceptual practice that questions the expectations of the audience.”
I am naked in public often, and this is a revolutionary act. I use my body as bait, to lure you in, make you feel comfortable and then inspire a conversation or a feeling about larger topics. I like to think of my work as if I were a naked Mary Poppins saying, “a spoonful of titties helps the medicine go down.” My work explores intimacy by subverting the expectations of the viewer and using my body as a tool to explore larger topics of gender, compassion and feminism with a little playful humor to help it a
I use my performances to create a through line from my grounding in contemporary dance and choreography, 15 years of cabaret performance, and my years as a stripper to connect to a personal narrative around my identity as a queer woman. By weaving my experiences into these different performative expressions, I have created a body of work that can co-exist in both traditional performance spaces and the world of nightlife entertainment, as well as the space in between. I believe that it’s just as important to