Cherie Sweetbottom: Washington, DC's Ambassador of Skin! A professional international burlesque entertainer, actress, model, and go-go dancer armed with a megawatt smile, chameleon-like shapeshifting abilities, and a posterior that's been described as "hypnotizing." First runner-up in the Best Performance Artist category in Washington City Paper's Best of DC 2016 and 2017 Reader Poll. Producer of House of Sweetbottom and the Evil League of Ecdysiasts, regular performer at Naked Girls Reading DC. Finalist nominee for the 2017 New York Burlesque Festival Golden Pastie Awards for Rear of the Year. Performing burlesque since 2011.
2 reviews
Tyler H.
December 15, 2019Fantastic performance, excellent communication before and during. Professional and fun through and through.
Hired as: Burlesque Entertainment
Anthony W.
April 20, 2016I saw Cherie in Richmond for a Tim Curry tribute. her choreography and mannerisms were perfectly in character. In addition , she has a bright smile and warm personality. She was even nice enough to stick around and take photos with the audience in costume. I look forward to seeing her perform again soon.
Hired as: Burlesque Entertainment
Cherie Sweetbottom
Thank you for your wonderful review, Anthony! I hope to be back in Richmond soon! Cheers!
Price range: $400 and up
Languages: English
What is burlesque? Burlesque is theatrical striptease, often with elements of humor or satire.
Modern burlesque generally falls into one of two types. "Classic" burlesque involves things like feather boas, floaty panel skirts, glamorous gowns, long satin gloves, feather fans, and lots of sparkle. "Neo" burlesque may include elements of classic burlesque, as well as influences from clowning and theatre, and is usually based on a character, a story, or even pop culture references, such as Game of Thrones, Star Wars, Firefly, or Chappell Roan (all of which I have in my repertoire).
A burlesque act is typically 3 - 5 minutes long and generally involves revealing something about one's character or story by or while removing one's clothing. In most places, a burlesque dancer finishes their act wearing only pasties (nipple coverings) and a g-string. Some areas and venues require more coverage, either by preference or by regulation/law.
Please note: My schedule tends to book at a minimum of 2 - 3 weeks in advance, with some dates booked months ahead. The earlier you contact me, the better chance I will be available.
Cherie Sweetbottom, the Ambassador of Skin, is a professionally trained actress who has performed vivid character-driven burlesque all over the U.S. and internationally since 2011. Known for her “hypnotizing” posterior, she is a versatile performer who effortlessly shifts from high-glamour classic burlesque to pop culture inspired nerdlesque, from sultry to silly and poignant to ridiculous. She is an official Naked Girl at Naked Girls Reading DC, producer of DC’s premiere nerdlesque troupe the Evil League of Ecdysiasts (established 2012) and the live music and classic burlesque revue House of Sweetbottom. She was voted DC’s Best Performance Artist first runner-up in the 2016 and 2017 Washington City Paper’s Reader’s Poll and was a finalist nominee for the 2017 New York Burlesque Festival’s Golden Pastie Award for Rear of the Year. She has appeared in the New York Burlesque Festival, DC’s Capital Fringe Festival, the Americana Burlesque and Sideshow Festival, the New York Nerdlesque Festival, several regional tours, the Burlesque is Coming national tour, and has performed with a number of live bands, including the Brian Newman Band, Jonny Grave and the Tombstones, Foggy Bottom Whomp Stompers, and Tongue in Cheek Jazz Band.
Cherie has a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatre and has been entertaining live audiences for over 20 years.
My minimum requirements are a place to change into my costume, an area in which to perform (floor or stage, depending on the location), lighting, someone to introduce me, and someone to operate my music. I can bring my music on CD, mp3 player, or laptop, depending on what format your location can accommodate.
Saturday
Elvis' Birthday Fight Club (Baltimore)
5:00pm - 11:30pm
Friday
Elvis' Birthday Fight Club (Baltimore)
4:00pm - 11:30pm
Saturday
Elvis' Birthday Fight Club (DC)
5:00pm - 11:30pm
Friday
Elvis' Birthday Fight Club (DC)
5:00pm - 11:30pm
Saturday
DC Braulesque
6:00pm - 11:30pm
Saturday
Birthday Party
10:00pm - 11:00pm
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Washington, DC
Saturday
DarkSide Bar DC
8:00pm - 11:55pm
Friday
DarkSide Bar DC
8:00pm - 11:55pm
Saturday
DarkSide Bar DC
8:00pm - 11:55pm
Friday
Naked Girls Reading DC
9:00pm - 11:55pm
Saturday
DarkSide Bar DC
8:00pm - 11:55pm
Friday
House of Sweetbottom at Black Cat, DC
7:00pm - 11:30pm
Saturday
Private Event, Maryland
7:00pm - 11:55pm
Friday
Rocky Horror Burlesque, Bier Baron, DC
6:00pm - 11:55pm
Saturday
Addams Family Burlesque, Ottobar, Baltimore, MD
6:00pm - 11:55pm
Friday
Naked Girls Reading, DC Arts Center
9:00pm - 11:55pm
Saturday
[Not Available]
12:00am - 11:55pm
Friday
New York Burlesque Festival
8:00pm - 11:00pm
Saturday
Unavailable
12:00am - 11:55pm
Friday
Naked Girls Reading Mythology at DC Arts Center
9:00pm - 11:30pm
Sunday
[Unavailable]
12:00am - 11:55pm
Friday
Naked Girls Reading the Internet
10:00pm - 11:55pm
Friday
Pastius Revelio: A Burlesque Tribute to Harry Potter
8:00pm - 11:00pm
Saturday
Tiresias' Tits (Capital Fringe Festival)
7:00pm - 9:00pm
Friday
Tiresias' Tits (Capital Fringe Festival)
8:15pm - 10:00pm
Tuesday
Tiresias' Tits (Capital Fringe Festival)
5:15pm - 7:00pm
Friday
Naked Girls Reading Nerdettes, DC Arts Center, DC
9:00pm - 12:00am (Sat)
Friday
DC Weirdo Show, Bier Baron Tavern, Washington, DC
7:00pm - 11:30pm
Saturday
Whedonism VI at Ottobar, Baltimore, MD
6:00pm - 11:30pm
Saturday
Whedonism VI at Black Cat, Washington, DC
6:00pm - 11:30pm
Friday
Americana Burlesque Sideshow Festival, AshevilleNC
12:00pm - 10:00pm
Saturday
House of Sweetbottom, Mobtown Ballroom, Baltimore
6:00pm - 11:30pm
Sunday
[Not Available]
3:00pm - 11:55pm
Saturday
WomanHouse at The Crown, Baltimore, MD
8:00pm - 11:00pm
Friday
The Nerdlesque Festival, Webster Hall, NYC
5:00pm - 5:00pm
Thursday
Ragtime Stomp at Bossa, Washington, DC
10:00pm - 12:30am (Fri)
Saturday
Titanic Event, Encore Retirement Community, MD
1:00pm - 5:00pm
Saturday
Burlesque Brunch w/ Live Band at Germano's, Baltimore, MD
11:00am - 4:00pm
Friday
Naked Girls Reading DC Presents Sci-Fi/Fantasy at DC Arts Center
10:00pm - 11:55pm
Saturday
Burlesque w/ Tongue in Cheek Jazz Band, State Theatre, VA
6:00pm - 11:30pm
Saturday
Monty Python Burlesque, Richmond, VA
6:00pm - 11:30pm
Tuesday
[Not Available]
12:00am - 11:55pm
Saturday
DC Distillers Festival, Long View Gallery, DC
4:00pm - 10:00pm
Wednesday
[Not Available]
12:05am - 11:55pm (Thu)
Tuesday
[Not Available]
12:00am - 11:55pm
Saturday
Variete at The Crown, Baltimore, MD
8:00pm - 11:30pm
Monday
[Not Available]
12:00am - 11:55pm
Friday
Naked Girls Reading Erotica, DC Arts Center
10:00pm - 11:55pm
Tuesday
[Not Available]
12:00am - 11:55pm
Saturday
Queen burlesque, Dominion Arts Center, Richmond
8:00pm - 11:30pm
Friday
Addams Family burlesque, Bier Baron Tavern, DC
9:00pm - 11:30pm
Thursday
Les Folies Derriere, Metropolitan, Annapolis
8:00pm - 11:00pm
Sunday
Private Event: Birthday Party
8:00pm - 11:00pm
Saturday
Elvis Birthday Fight Club, GALA Hispanic Theatre
5:00pm - 11:00pm
Friday
Elvis Birthday Fight Club, GALA Hispanic Theatre, DC
5:00pm - 11:00pm
Friday
[Not Available]
12:00am - 11:55pm
Friday
[Not Available]
12:00am - 12:00am
Sunday
La Boum Brunch at Capitale, Washington, DC
12:00pm - 4:00pm
Sunday
Dr. Sketchy's DC at Bier Baron Tavern
2:00pm - 5:00pm
Friday
Naked Girls Reading at DC Arts Center
10:00pm - 12:00am (Sat)
Friday
[Not Available]
12:00am - 11:55pm
Tuesday
[Not Available]
12:00am - 11:55pm
Wednesday
[Not Available]
12:00am - 12:00am
Sunday
La Boum Brunch at Capitale DC
12:00pm - 4:00pm
Saturday
Naked Girls Reading at DC Arts Center
10:00pm - 12:00am (Sun)
Saturday
Private Event
6:30pm - 8:30pm
Monday
[Not Available]
12:00am - 11:55pm
Monday
[Not Available]
12:00am - 12:00am
Sunday
Rocky Horror Picture Show Burlesque at Bier Baron
12:00pm - 4:00pm
Saturday
Monster Movie Double Feature at Bier Baron Tavern
8:00pm - 11:30pm
Friday
The Halloween Circus at Black Cat DC
8:00pm - 12:00am (Sat)
Sunday
La Boum Brunch at Capitale DC
12:00pm - 4:00pm
Friday
Naked Girls Reading at DC Arts Center
10:00pm - 12:00am (Sat)
Saturday
La Boum Boum Room at L'Enfant Cafe
9:30pm - 2:00am (Sun)
Saturday
La Boum Brunch at Capitale DC
12:00pm - 4:00pm
Friday
Fundraiser
9:00pm - 10:30pm
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Annapolis, MD
Available acts:
Classic: Fan dance in shades of golden yellow and burnished orange; Lady Marmalade (showgirl act with feather headddress and boa); She Moves Me (belly dance inspired bluesy bump & grind act with veil); Touch Me (white fringe shimmy costume with tassel twirling); All For You (hat and chair dance); Wild Women Don't Have The Blues (feather boa); Somebody Fix Me (sexy strippery act with white fur boa, yellow gown, floor and chair work); White Christmas (red velvet gown act inspired by the Bing Crosby/Rosemary Clooney film)
Holiday/seasonal: Boston Tea Party (any patriotic holiday); White Christmas (Christmas/winter); Metal Angel (Christmas); Harvest Witch fan dance in black, gold, burnished orange
Historical: Victorian funeral act; Dancing Queen (Baroque); Jazz Vampire (1920's); Boston Tea Party (American colonial)
Pop Culture: Septa Unella "shame" act (Game of Thrones); Lyanna Stark (Game of Thrones); Inara Serra bathing act (Firefly TV series); Hutt Slayer Leia act (Star Wars/Return of the Jedi); Johanna Mason chair dance (The Hunger Games books/films); Gilderoy Lockhart drag burlesque act (Harry Potter books/films); Barbarella spacesuit strip (based on the opening scene of the cult classic film Barbarella); Numfar's Dance of Joy (TV show Angel); Buffy Loves Giles (Buffy the Vampire Slayer); Honey Badger (based on the YouTube video The Crazy Nastyass Honey Badger); Bilbo/Gollum (Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit); Eowyn, Shieldmaiden of Rohan (Lord of the Rings)
Drag burlesque: Gilderoy Lockhart (Harry Potter books/films); Frank N. Furter (Rocky Horror Picture Show); Somebody To Love (Freddie Mercury), Boston Tea Party; Bilbo/Gollum (Lord of the Rings/The Hobbit); Numfar's Dance of Joy (Angel)
I also create new acts fairly regularly, and for an extra fee and plenty of advance notice, I can create an act with a theme or song of your choice!
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Dressing Room
CD player or mp3 hookup with speakers
Stage or clear space to perform
Burlesque Entertainment
