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Camille 2,000 was known as the Girl for Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow, The Cosmic Queen of Burlesque. She introduced Aggressive Art to Burlesque with her Tribute to Marquis de Sade. many said at the time that is wasn’t Burlesque that it was performance art, but it was Burlesque. Camille choreographed this act herself. At the time Burlesque was losing the audience to Live Nude Dance, & Lap Dance, so she was trying to keep the audience & this performance did draw customers.

In the beginning of her career, She did Fan dances & prop work choreographed by famous Burlesque Choreographer Paul Markoff. Work tight fitting gown’s & did the old style burlesque. Her original act was with a pair of stuff cockatoos. Travelled all over the world doing her lead lining show.

The last 10 years of her career she also choreographed the Black Widow a stunning act where she is a Black Widow spider & kills her self in the end. Very Strong show, like no on had done.

In the 1980′s Camille became a member of Screen’s Actor’s Guild getting a part playing opposite Iggy Pop, Playing a dominatrix name Velvet.

Ladies and Gentlemen, it is our honor and privilege to present next to you the Headliner of the 2012 Alabama Burlesque Festival–Alabama’s First Burlesque Festival (TM)! We originally thought we could not get this legend to perform at our …festival, even though she hails from the Cotton State. She is actually from Ida Claire’s hometown, well home area (it’s all kind of together), so when we all linked up at the Burlesque Hall of Fame, we knew that she had to be at our festival. She is a legend of burlesque who was the first Burlesque Queen to introduce Agressive Art to Burlesque with her Tribute to Marquis De Sade. She was know as the girl for yesterday, today, and tomorrow, and at the height of her career, she was the highly sought-after burlesque queen, who performed carefully choreographed routines under lights that were professionally handled. She posed for elite photographers, travelled with trunks of costumes and props, and once had a Japanese television crew follow her, reality TV-style, long before that genre ever became popular. She is a member of the Screen Actors’ Guild and has acted in movie and television roles alongside Burt Reynolds in “B.L. Stryker;” appeared in 13 episodes of “Miami Vice;” worked with rock star Iggy Pop; and appeared in “Porky’s II” and Alan Carr’s remake of “Where the Boys Are.” Please give a warm Southern welcome to our Alabama Belle, the Cosmic Queen of Burlesque, Camille 2000! http://www.alabamaburlesquefest.com/