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Empress Stah is an internationally renowned, award winning, Aerial Artist, Neo Cabaret Performer and Show Producer, whose signature performance is ‘Swinging from the Chandelier’.

Famed for her provocative and controversial style of show, Stah has toured the world with her repertoire of unique acts as well as producing her own sell out cabaret extravaganza’s in London and on tour, most notably  ‘The Very Best of Empress Stah’.

Empress Stah has recently completed a research project supported by The Arts Council of England, to develop a new solo show that explores the themes of Space and Evolution.

Stah has performed for Damien Hirst & Harvey Nichols, shared the bill with Dita Von Teese and Cirque Du Soleil and made guest appearances at The Box in NYC, La Clique and The Brit Awards. 

 

 
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         Good Morning Television - Sunrise Program, New Zealand 

 

 

 

QUOTES

 

“Utterly Unique”  – Time Out, London

“Cabaret Star” – The New York Times

"Cult Status" - The Stage

"Aerial Queen" - The Londonist 

“Sublime & Ridiculous” – The Observer

“Exotic, Erotic, Extraordinaire” – The Edinburgh Guide

"The Ruler of the Decadent Underworld of Burlesque Performers" - The West Australian

 

REVIEWS

 

Empress Stah who, suspended from her signature chandelier, here draped with Miss Havisham cobwebs, shows off her style with some risky (no lunge) toe, waist and heel hangs. She also had a neat trick, if you find the macabre appealing, of syringing out her own blood and drinking it.

The Stage, London – from Trash City performance in The Roundhouse

 

TESTIMONIALS

“She is one of the true originals in the international performance scenes and there is no one else like her.”

David Wood – Founder and Artistic Director of Torture Garden

 

“She made our party so premium but naughty!”

Terry Hart – My Beautiful City

 


 

 

 
WHERE SHE HAS BEEN AND WHO SHE HAS DONE IT WITH !!


During the course of Empress Stah's glittering career she has performed world wide for many an Illustrious Brand, Notorious Nightclub, Famous Festival, Notable Company and Glamorous Venue including .......

 


Harvey Nichols, Damien Hirst, The Brit Awards, Smirnoff Electric Cabaret, Cosmopolitan Magazine, Wella, Philippe Starke, Phillip Morris, MacWorld, Beef Eater Gin, The British Motor Show, The Private Equity Foundation, Take That, Stryker Medical with Incandescence, Harpers Bizarre and Deloits with The Generating Company, Spitalfields Unwrapped with Greenwich and Docklands Festival.

 

Glastonbury (7), Bestival (2), Reading, Love Box, Burning Man, Splore NZ, Latitude, The Big Chill, Wilderness, Download, Torture Garden, Duckie, The Last Tuesday Society, Face Party, Le Reve, Lost Vagueness, The Flash Monkey, White Mischief, Whoopie Club, Nude, This is … Circus, Velvet Tipped Saloon, Erotica, The Metal Hammer Awards, The Kerrang Awards, Red Room Cabaret, Wastelands, The Marisa Carnesky Company, Trash City, Mischief La Bas, Skinning the Cat, Fringe Festivals in Edinburgh, Brighton, Adelaide and Perth.

 

The Royal Opera House, The Roundhouse, The Lowery, The Southbank Center, Tower Ballroom Blackpool, The Supper Club, The Brickhouse, The Box, The Crazy Horse, Café De Paris, Ministry of Sound, Mass, GateCrasher,  The Fridge, KoKo’s, Sketch, Earls Court, Olympia, The Hippodrome, Soho Revue Bar, Space, Manumission, Circus Restaurant and MONA - The Museum of Old and New Art.

 

Tokyo (5), Moscow (3), New York (3), Amsterdam (6), Berlin (5), Rome (6), Naples (4), Athens (2), Thessaloniki (2), Stockholm, Oslo, Helsinki, Copenhagen (3), Budapest, Lichtenstein, Antwerp, Dusseldorf, Pairs (3), Lyon, Nancy, Barcelona, Ibiza (2), Edinburgh, Cardiff, Glasgow, Dublin (8), Belfast, Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, Singapore, Tel Aviv, San Francisco, Dallas, Miami (2) , Rio, Sao Paulo,, Auckland (2), Christ Church, Wanaka, Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, Adelaide, Hobart and all over the UK.