The love for visual art has been there ever since my teacher told med that the picture I drew was beautiful. I was 4 years old. Shortly after came my fascination with the imaginary world of fairy tales and video games. You can see these influences in everything I create.

But reality came, I was advised not to pursue an artistic path and instead became an engineer. I love the intellectual challenge and stability of my job, but my heart wants art.

So, I started dancing when I was around 30 and then I kept on dancing…then I found burlesque and started doing that at age of 34 and fell in love with it..and then decided that modelling was fun at age of 36 and now I'm doing that as well. Not even once did I stop to think “I’m not in my 20s, so it’s too late”. My drive is always “oh this is fun, let me be amazing at it!”.

Moral of the story is: f* expectations and do whatever the hell you want. Yes you can start “late” and yes you can strip on stage and still be respectable at work ffs.

Amanitha instruerar i Burlesque fortsättning Choreo och Chairdance