About Bea
Should I Stay or Should I Go? Le Cabaret Erotique
Welcome to my world…where glitter and glamour reign supreme!
Bio
Ms. Bea Haven is the Great Chicago Fire. A Chicago-based multimedia burlesque, performance and video artist, producer and teacher, Ms. Bea has performed her hilarious, smart and edgy burlesque acts with nearly every burlesque & performance art outfit in town. She has performed in every kind of venue (large and small) for audiences numbering from two (yes, two. Intimate!) to the thousands.
Ms. Bea Haven, Beyond the Sea, Le Cabaret Erotique
Bea packs her queer-positive, campy, woman-positive, body-type-inclusive messages into a sexy and hilarious performance art shows and pieces that are beloved by queer and straight audiences alike. Not merely a burlesque dancer with sexy moves, Bea combines multimedia and interdisciplinary elements to create performances, shows and salons that are memorable, moving and completely unique.
Primarily, Ms. Bea is the producer/director/Gal Friday for Girlie-Q Productions, Chicago’s first & only queer burlesque troupe. An outstanding performer in her own right, Bea has performed with nearly every show in town. She has been a featured performer at the Rhino Festival (Chicago’s top festival for solo performance artists), PAC/Edge festival, Mondo Homo (Atlanta) Ladyfest Midwest, Ladyfest Philly, Beast Women, the Twisted Tassel Festival, Angela Eve’s Elysian Ball, Viva La Muerte’s Hot and Heavy Burlesque, Prissy Bitch Productions, Arkham Noise Productions, High Voltage Burlesque, Heartless B!tch, Gurlesque Burlesque, Michelle L’Amour’s Star & Garter Burlesque, Red Hot Dames, Varietease Cabaret, among many others.
I'll Be Your Mirror, Video Installation & Durational Burlesque Performance
Like a fine wine, Ms. Bea just gets better with time. She is among a very small group of Chicago burlesque performers with a long and solid resume stretching back nearly a decade. As a video, performance and fine artist, her work has been seen throughout the country. She holds an MFA in interdisciplinary arts and media (with a focus on performance and video/new media) from Columbia College Chicago.
Turn-Ons
Glitter, feathers, perfect dirty martinis with extra blue cheese olives, sexy audience members, a great meal, helpings ladies find “the sexy”, performing, great burlesque acts, stunning visuals, great design, amazing performance art, dandies of all gender expressions, Czech crystals, sequins, sewing projects, danish modern furniture, helping performers realize their intentions, matte red lipstick, shimmies, bumps, teaching burlesque, feminist, femme sharks, hot butches and trannies, tattoos.
Bea in Dance of the Latke Queen, HotHouse 2004
Allergies
Diva behavior, mullets, bell peppers, cow’s milk, pollen.
What they said (Press for Ms. Bea)
“Always misbehaving!” –Time Out Chicago (2009)
“Ms. Bea Haven’s striptease to Debbie Gibson’s Lost in Your Eyes was perplexingly entertaining.” –Chicago Reader (2008)
“Charming. Ms. Bea Haven’s bra landed in the light rigging, enhancing her dippy-stripper persona” –Chicago Reader review (2007)
Taglines
The Great Chicago Fire, The Titian-Haired Makeout Queen, Burlesque’s Brainiest Broad, Public Feminist #1, Putting the Femme Back in Feminism, The Burlesbo (Burlezzie, Burlesbian), Chicago Burlesque’s Dyke Darling, The PPA (Pastie’d Performance Artist), Queerest of the Queer
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By Rachel, July 21, 2009 @ 9:26 pm
Hey – just wondering if you know any establishments similar to what you’re running in Sydney, Australia?
Perhaps you could come visit and give some lessons down here ; ]
Carpe diem.
By admin, July 22, 2009 @ 6:23 am
Hey Rachel,
I am not sure, but I’m going to ask one of my burly friends here in Chicago who is from Perth. I know that there’s a HUGE scene there. And hey, if you want to fly me in for a week intensive class, I’m game!
xo,
Ms. Bea