"Pinkie Special is the Monty Python of Burlesque."
- Julie Atlas Muz
"Genious Retard."
- Tigger
Back in 2000, Pinkie began performing by playing the wash tub bass with a hill billy band in Seattle. A few years later destiny brought Pinkie to NYC where her performing career truly took off.
Since then Pinkie has become a burlesque superstar who has dazzled audiences at NY venues such as The Slipper Room, Le Scandal, Coney Island, Galapagos, Starshine Burlesque, Sweet N Nasty, Hulapalooza and Sugarshack Burlesque. She has also performed for audiences at many venues across the United States and Canada including The Pink Door, Seattle, and The Palace of Wonders, DC and Meow Mix, Montreal Canada. Pinkie has performed go-go and burlesque with great bands such as I Love You Airlines, Fisherman's Vibraphonic Orchestra, The Choke, and Matt Muscleman and The Syncopators.
Around 2003, Pinkie became obsessed with the Hula Hoop and began hooping for audiences as a street performer as well as on the burlesque stage. Now, Pinkie makes custom hoops and teaches a weekly hoop/exercise class through The School Of Burlesque. She also twirls baton, plays guitar, sings, and is full of jokes. She has been coined 'The Monty Python of Burlesque' by Julie Atlas Muz and 'Genius Retard' by Tigger. There are two fabulous movies made by Lux Killmore with Pinkie Special as the star.
Recently Pinkie started a unique dance troupe, The Animal Crackers Eccentric Dancers, featuring Miss Saturn, Aimee Animal, Darling Just Darling and herself. Eccentric dance evokes old school vaudeville with the clowny, burlap style of movement. All this and Pinkie still works full time as a lab manager in a yeast genetics lab and is the only Beckman elutriator consultant in the United States (it's a scientific instrument on which she's an expert).
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