Swedish Siren

The Swedish Siren is a dedicated neo-burlesque performance artist based in Gothenburg, Sweden. She's been performing in Europe as well as in the United States. The roundness of her curves has been stroked by the public eye on a variety of scenes, for example International Burlesque clubs, Festivals, Swedish music awards, Pride and LGBT galas, Bodymod conventions and offcourse - on television, in magazines and on the world wide web!

NEWS 2011- The Swedish Siren stood out as the only Scandinavian performer that made it to 21st Century Burlesque Magazine´s list of the worlds most popular and spectacular burlesqueperformers.

Swedish Siren started her creative path as a performance artist and did a lot of fetishinspired shows featuring playpiercing and latex. But the moment she was introduced to the Burlesquescene she found her true calling! As a burlesqueperformer she focus on neo-burlesque and take her inspiration from theatrical cabaret, circus, performance art and grrrl-power! She loves to mix tease, glamour and lust with comedy and obscenity. Her acts are all small stories with a twist, and offcourse, a lot of curves, corsetery and a sparkling kickass attitude.

Swedish Siren is also the proud mama of Tip the Velvet burlesqueclub (http://www.tipthevelvet.se) and the burlesquetroup Velvet Vixens, where she teach, coreograph and guide a  group of amazing performers.

But she does not express her passion for burlesque on stage only -she is also active in the theoretical burly-q community! As a writer of articles, university papers and contributer to books she focus on the topic of burlesque as a femme-inst movement. She has been giving classes and workshops about this subject and are always interested in spreading her passion and knowledge. Her resume of lectures and workshops  contains womensclubs, girl sororitys and sexualpolitical associations such as RFSU, Sweden.

Modelling:

I'm a well experienced plus size model who have been featured in magazines, art projects, calendars and all over the worldwideweb! I rarely have time to do TFP-shoots these days but if the photographer/idea is interesting enough I might consider it! I do have a lot of tattoos that Im not able to cover up easy (and thats why they call it alt.modelling I guess ;) 

From the press:

"Swedish Siren is known to have curves that could kill and an attitude that says fuck off to all the stereotypes and plastic female ideals. Her stage expression is based on playing with and challengeing the norms and taboos of todays society."

"A true inspiration to all the girls out there who suffers from bad selfesteem for not fitting in to the role of being the skinny and perfect modeltype girl that they feel the preassure of being"

"Swedish Siren is a Neo-burlesque performer with a variety of different routines. Her needleplay skills gives her a unique touch that works at a wide range of scenes such as fetish, burlesque, circus and bodymodconventions."