About Vivian
About She Who Shines
Vivian - or Viv for short - is a piece of starlight incarnate who has been sharing her beauty and sweet personality with the world since January of 2023. She never intended to be here with her life, but with the way things just snowballed for her, she wouldn't have had it any other way. She INSISTS she was just trying to design a new renaissance faire costume!
A dabbler in creative costuming since 2005, belly and pole dancing since 2021 and burlesque dancing since 2022, Viv has many unique talents to bring to the stage. Her art degree and special interest in web and graphic design come into play as well, enabling her to personally manage and market all her own pages, create and edit her own photos and graphics, and design her official website, all with skill and finesse. She is always looking for new opportunties and ways to grow, most recently by finally publishing this very site, and becoming a semi-professional dancer via Angel Harts Revue, a burlesque troupe based in Central PA.
Her stunning blue eyes, sweet smile, flowing coppery brown hair, and statement rose tattoos make her an instantly recognizable figure both on stage and in front of the camera - and one that all who lay eyes on her can never quite seem to get enough of.
And of course - DAT BOOTY THO. 🤌🏻
It All Started at the Renaissance Faire...
No, really! It did!
Viv discovered her local renaissance faire at the age of 15, and thus discovered her love for costuming and drawing the attention of passersby. She made a habit out of attending in costume for several years, with her outfits becoming much more, shall we say, risque once she hit her 20s. It felt dangerous and exciting, and quickly became a power trip obsession.
This continued unhindered for many a year of season passes, being stopped for photos and handing out nosebleeds to unsuspecting nerd boys. Then, during the 2021 faire season, as Viv watched one of her favorite live musical acts perform, an unscripted belly dancer climbed on stage to dance to the music.
The dancer's outfit was utterly mesmerizing. It was like no belly dance costume or renaissance faire garb Viv had ever seen. She was half mezmerized by the beauty of the dancer, and half memorizing the outfit to make her own version of it (so much so that she never thought to take photos or video in the moment!). She started hunting for costume pieces online that very night.
After much googling, she discovered that, to no one's surprise, many of the pieces were meant to be used as belly dance costumes - not pool coverups, not summer skirts, not club wear, but designed and intended specifically for belly dancing. Feeling ehhh-not-great about wearing dance clothing while having no idea how to dance, Viv decided to try to learn at least a little bit of belly dancing to be more respectful to the art.
So, having no idea the turn her life was about to take, she looked up local classes, found a nearby dance studio with weekly belly dance classes, and scheduled her first class for that very week.
As soon as she stepped foot in the studio, Viv promptly discovered that the primary type of class at this studio was for, in fact, pole dancing. Her future studiomates were playing with taking photos that day, and she was wholly spellbound. Not long after, in addition to the new belly dance classes, she started taking beginner pole dance classes as well, purely out of curiosity and bucket list-style enthusiasm.
She wasn't serious about it, not at first, only taking one class a week and alternating each week between pole and belly. That all changed drastically after her first studio showcase hit. She learned her very first choreography (belly dance! pic to the right!) to perform in front of her very first audience, and on top of the dopamine dump that came with it, she could watch the rest of the dancing the studio offered - which is how she discovered burlesque.
It was love at first sight with burlesque. Everything about it harkened back to all of her previous experience - the character of her renaissance faire personas, the sultry smoothness of her belly dancing, and the strength and power of her pole dancing. She immediately included burlesque classes in her rotation and took to it like a fish in water, and soon was memorizing and performing full choreographies in all three of her dance styles.
Exactly one year after all this began, during a Christmas burlesque photoshoot, Viv unintentionally discovered another newfound passion: just how very much she loves being photographed in a sexual, provocative way. Shortly afterwards, out of pure curiosity and to see if it'd actually get anywhere, she decided to try her hand at running an OnlyFans and see what came of it.
It was quickly a (very unintended) massive success. And the rest of her journey - joining SuicideGirls, dancing for the general public, working with professional photographers, joining a burlesque troupe, designing and performing her own choreographies, etc. - just took off on its own from there.
"See what came of it," indeed.
The ren faire nerd to stripper pipeline is real.
P.S. That costume inspiration that started it all? She did finish her design, seen in the pic to the right. And she can, after everything, confidently perform the art that the garb requires. 💋
