Dirty Martini

Dirty Martini (born Linda Marraccini) is an American burlesque dancer, pin-up model and dance teacher.

She is best known for her over-the-top performance acts, which mostly incorporate various classic burlesque styles such as the fan dance, balloon striptease, and shadow stripping.

Martini lives and performs in New York City, but tours extensively throughout North America and Europe. She has performed on stages that range from weekly burlesque venues, gay leather bars, the London Palladium and Carnegie Hall.

In 2004, Dirty Martini was crowned Miss Exotic World.

Biography

Born to an opera singer/visual artist mother and a band director father, she was raised in New Jersey, where she studied dance since the age of six. Martini later honed her choreography skills at SUNY-Purchase, where she graduated with a BFA in Dance Performance.

Performance

Martini moved to New York City and started out working in collaborative theater and modern dance groups.

Martini, alongside burlesque performers including Mimi Le Meaux, Kitten on the Keys, Julie Atlas Muz, Evie Lovelle and Roky Roulette, were featured in Mathieu Amalric's 2010 Cannes-award winning film, Tournee. A drawing of her is used for the film's promotional poster.

Print media

Martini has been featured in the books Striptease: from Gaslight to Spotlight by Jessica Glasscock, Burlesque and the New Bump-n-Grind by Michelle Baldwin, and Katherina Bosse's New Burlesque. Martini is also featured in Neo-Burlesque: Striptease As Transformation by Lynn Sally, released in October 2021.

For the spring 2010 edition of V Magazine, she was featured in a fashion spread shot by Karl Lagerfeld at the House of Chanel.