The Village Voice calls DARLINDA JUST DARLINDA a "Mastermind of Bizarre Extravaganza" and she has been working as a Performance Artist, Burlesque Performer and Producer since 2004 locally (New York City) and internationally (Australia, Canada, China, England, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, and most of the USA including Alaska!)
Darlinda is one half of the Burlesque duo The Schlep Sisters, co producing such shows as The 13th Annual Menorah Horah and The Burning
Bush vs. The Second Coming. Darlinda has produced a variety of shows, some The New York Times called "Shockingly Explicit!" She's a regular performer at the supburb NYC venues like The Slipper Room, The House of Yes, and The Paradise Lounge at Times Square Edition. She’s crossed over into performance art with her year long “life as art” projects Year in Rainbow and Her Dance Theater Work: Untitled Rainbow Project and One Woman Rainbow (SAVE THE DATE: NOVEMBER 10, 2019 at JOE'S PUB!)
Darlinda doesn't limit herself to the Burlesque stage, no she's performed Off Broadway and on television! Darlinda performed with Taylor Mac in A 24-Decade History of Popular Music (MacArthur Fellowship) The Lily’s Revenge(Obie) and The 29th Annual Roots of American Music Festival at Lincoln Center, The Cockettes "Cocktail of Glamour and Anarchy" at Lincoln Center, in Julie Atlas Muz's The Divine Comedy of an Exquisite Corpse at PS122, and Princess Wendy's Late Nite Tease
Room at The Rochester Fringe Festival. She can be found on television/film, in The Marvelous Mrs Maisel, HBO’s Boardwalk Empire, Real Sex, The Other F Word Series, THESE THEMS, Betty and BIZARRE the film by Etienne Faure.
Darlinda is a current faculty member at the New York School of Burlesque, has Lectured at Yale's infamous Sex Week and also teaches internationally (Australia, Canada, Germany, France, England,and Finland!) She has competed and performed as a soloist and as part of The Schlep Sisters at The Burlesque Hall of Fame in Las Vegas.
The Sundance Channel made Darlinda a “Top 10 Badass Burlesque Babe,” she was voted in the Top 50 International Burlesque Industry Figures of 2011-2014! Darlinda is the recipient of the Golden Pastie Award for
The Most Innovative and Creative and The first and multiple winner of The Brooklyn Nightlife Award Winner for Best Burlesque Dancer!
USA Today says “It’s hard to top Darlinda.”
The Village Voice calls Darlinda a “Mastermind of Bizarre Extravaganza.”
USA Today says “It’s hard to top Darlinda”
“Darlinda Just Darlinda, a splash of color and light.” www.boston.com
New York Times, " . . .Shockingly Explicit!"
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