Performance shots - Adam Monaghan

The Champagne Circus was a great success, a huge thank you to all those who attended and made such a spectacular effort to look amazing. The Champagne Circus audience is certainly the best dressed audience in Finland! 

Here's the first batch of live photographs from British/Finnish photographer Adam Monaghan www.adammonaghan.com Enjoy!  (Performers are; Lucky Hell, Pippa The Ripper, Missy Macabre, Amazing Ari and Lada Redstar)

THE CHAMPAGNE CIRCUS - THIS SATURDAY!

Ladies and Gentlemen!
We are SO excited for this Saturday. The Champagne Circus is almost upon us, and we're extremely proud to present you with the best in International Circus Cabaret!


We have our own private bar, dedicated to you - The Champagne Circus Audience! There'll be Champagne galore! Cocktails! Snacks, sweets, dancing and a newly designed photobooth from Atelieri O. Haapala!


- YOU CAN RESERVE SEATS BY EMAILING; M.MACABRE@HOTMAIL.COM

We have a star studded cast, all with absolutely breathtaking performances, these artists are ground breakers, record breakers, and of course - heart breakers.

AMAZING ARI (AUS/UK) - "Circus Supernatural"
A highly respected and accomplished artist who has performed throughout Australia, Asia, The Middle East and Europe. Photographer, Writer, Tattood Mystic. Performance skills range from the aerial circus arts; aerial silk, spanish web, corde lisse, static trapeze and aerial ring to harness work, fire and pole dance.
“Aussie Aerial Circus Superstar” – DNA Magazine


LADA REDSTAR (FR)- "International Showgirl Sensation!"
Lada is one of the most influential Burlesque artists of her generation. With beautiful couture costumes, natural charisma and show stopping sensuality, she is glamour personified.


MISSY MACABRE (UK) - "The Sideshow Sweetheart"
An international and revolutionary, Circus Sideshow performer from London. Missy presents a diverse variety of Sideshow and Cabaret disciplines, manifesting them together in a perfect plethora of wit, elegance and danger.
''Sideshow Royalty'' Bizarre Magazine


PIPPA THE RIPPER (AUS/UK)- "Hula Hijinx!"
Audience slayer extraordinaire Pippa has a black belt in charm, and skills to thrill. Pippa Coram has achieved world wide notoriety as a ground breaking Hula Hoop act.
"The best hulahoop act I have ever seen” Simon Cowell - Britain's Got Talent.

LUCKY HELL (FI) - "Sword Swallowing Seductress"
Beautiful, glamourous and Deadly - Burlesque, Sideshow, Suspension Artist. Finland's only female sword swallower.

And, OPHELIA BITZ (UK) "The inimitable potty-mouthed pin up!"
With the sharpest razor-tongued wit in London; Ophelia Bitz is a vocalist, ring-mistress, compere and performance artist.
Miss Bitz is most at home commanding audiences of thousands as she hosts glittering circus shows and enchants underground cabaret clubs with her powerful voice, and witty banter.
"Dirty, witty, fabulous: Ophelia Bitz is f*cking hilarious" Martyn Jacques, The Tiger Lillies







TICKETS ARE AVAILABLE FROM WWW.TIKETTI.FI OR THEY ARE AVAILABLE FROM THE DOOR ON THE NIGHT!


DOORS OPEN AT 21.00, SHOW STARTS AT 22.00 EXACTLY.


PLEASE ARRIVE EARLY TO ENSURE GOOD SEATS. 

Vanha Ylioppilastalo - Helsinki

Mannerheimintie 3
00100 Helsinki, Finland
040 571 1728

Tickets for The Champagne Circus II

October 8th is drawing closer and tickets for The Champagne Circus are selling fast!


We have a line-up of immense international proportions - with Aerial Acrobatics from cult icon, Amazing Ari. As well as circus and cabaret performances from some of the world's best artists featuring: Lada Redstar, Ophelia Bitz, Missy Macabre, Pippa the Rippa, and Lucky Hell.


Tickets are available on the door for 35€, or for 30€ from tiketti.fi


You can reserve a table by emailing me at: m.macabre@hotmail.com


You can pre-buy tickets online from: www.tiketti.fi 


You can also WIN TWO FREE TICKETS from: http://www.gayfinland.fi/

Atelieri O. Haapala get ready to shoot the circus!

Attendees at the last Champagne Circus will remember a beautiful vintage circus themed photo booth in the main bar.

It was of course, Helsinki's finest cabinet portrait artists, Atelieri O. Haapala - Saara Salmi, and Marco Melander.

The photos they took were absolutely wonderful, capturing the atmosphere and audience perfectly. I've included some, for those of you who haven't seen them yet! You can see more on the Atelieri O. Haapala website. http://www.ohaapala.com/

They will be returning to Vanha Ylioppilastalo for October's Champagne Circus! (Yay!!) with a brand spanking new backdrop, and props! 

We cannot wait!

AMAZING ARI

Ari is indeed 'Circus Supernatural'


A highly respected and accomplished artist who has performed throughout Australia, Asia, The Middle East and Europe. Ari is an aerial master,and his skills range from; aerial silk, spanish web, corde lisse, static trapeze and aerial ring to harness work, fire and pole dance.

Ari presents his performances with dexterity, power and grace.

Performing breathtaking drops with fluid movement, working through mind-bending aerial routines with explosive energy as he falls and effortlessly catches himself mid-air. 

He is beautiful, captivating and talented. 

Missy Macabre

Missy will be performing with fire for this month's Champagne Circus! It's gonna be hot hot hot!




Missy Macabre is the ultimate Fakir Fatale. Dubbed as 'Sideshow Royalty' by British press - Missy is renowned for bringing both class and elegance to the international world of Circus Sideshow and Cabaret. Thoroughly decadent - with a spectacular display of couture costumes, fearlessness and unique stunts such as the 'Bath of Broken Glass'  Missy can easily claim to be the most diligent of female fakirs working in Europe today. Her stunts are executed with poise, confidence and skill. Her shows embody the romanticism of traditional travelling circuses of yesteryear, fused with the ethereal glamour of Weimar cabaret of 1920s Berlin.

Lada Redstar!

Here we have another larger than life character performing for us all at October's Champagne Circus! The lascivious Lada Redstar!

Lada is glamour personified. She's quite simply fabulous, and is one of the most influential burlesque artists of her generation - her couture costumes are outstanding. And, she has the intimate, timeless sex appeal akin to the classic divas of the silver screen. She's the ultimate showgirl. 
In Burlesque you can't be sexy, or entertaining without a touch of dry humour, poise and timing. Lada has all three down to a very fine art indeed! 

For the Champagne Circus, Lada Redstar will be performing two very special acts that haven't yet been seen in Helsinki:

Photos by Lorenzo Paxia, and Neil Kendall.

Pippa the Ripper!

Pippa the Ripper, is a hula-hooping mastermind. Some would say a genius, even. For she makes the art of hula-hooping look deceptively easy!

Performing in theatres, circus big-tops, and cabarets from Berlin to Broadway, Pippa has left a trail of emotional devastation in her wake. Now living in London, Australian Pippa is currently working on a new world record attempt. ( I wonder if she'll give us a preview for The Champagne Circus?!)

Beautiful, fun, sexy and amusing, Pippa will rip into your psyche and tear away your conceptions of circus burlesque forever! 

Ophelia Bitz!

For all of you who attended April's Champagne Circus you would have encountered a larger than life character, notorious for her heathen sense of humour, and wicked, wicked ways. 
Our Ring Mistress Ophelia Bitz is back in Helsinki on October 8th bringing with her more sordid tales of desire, depravity, and songs of seduction and scandal, whilst maintaining her enviable charisma and dashing sense of humour.
We are SO excited to have her back, she was one of the stars of April's show, and she hasn't let us forget it in a hurry. I'm sure those in attendance will remember Bitz's kiwi fruit exploits for a very long time to come, indeed...


Not only is Ophelia Bitz an international show girl of the highest esteem. She also has recently won a flying gold penis trophy at The Erotic Awards, London for Sexy Comedienne of the year! 


(The Erotic Awards are run by charity Outsiders, to celebrate sex workers, activists, writers and artists, and to raise awareness of the rights of people with physical disabilities. Founded by Tuppy Owens the awards serve as a fund-raiser and party.)


Ophelia produces a phenomenal cultural event celebrating sexual diversity, antique pornography, ethical consumption of contemporary pornography , cabaret and comedy! The event is called ArtWank, and you can read more about it here; ART WANK!!!!

Lucky Hell

Its time again for another Circus Spectacular! Leading up to The Champagne Circus, I'll be introducing October's fabulous cast and crew, here's the first of many talented artists...


Missy x




Lucky Hell.


For those of you who have been reading the Finnish news recently, you would have noticed a lot of fuss about this lady! Lucky recently performed a successful flesh suspension from a crane over a lake in Helsinki to raise awareness for animal rights in Finland.

Lucky is Finland's only female sword swallower — an ancient art that is rarely resurrected in the 21st Century, she's a modern fakir, presenting her death defying stunts to international audiences with a luxurious, louche appeal seldom seen in today's cabaret underworld! 

We can't wait to see what she'll come up with for October's Champagne Circus, but here's a few teasers from her previous performances:

CHAMPAGNE CIRCUS II

We are so thrilled to be producing another Champagne Circus in Helsinki! It's going to be utterly amazing. 


We've made a few (important) changes to the space, and now have our own circus themed private bar, with sumptuous Champagne cocktails! More details to follow later... 


Missy x



“Who can resist these rare glimpses of a world unknown, unheard of, and unimagined?”


"THE CHAMPAGNE CIRCUS" is Helsinki's newest, most decadent club night to date. Situated in the main hall of ‘Vanha Ylioppilastalo’, with a star studded cast of award-winning, international artistes purveying the finest in modern circus and cabaret - whilst evoking the timeless spirit of the gender bending, erotic badlands of Weimar Berlin and it’s notorious variety shows.

Witness wild, weird, and wonderful feats of human marvel as you are transported into the opulent underworld of “The Champagne Circus”.


PROUDLY PRESENTING;


AMAZING ARI (AUS/UK) - "Circus Supernatural"
A highly respected and accomplished artist who has performed throughout Australia, Asia, The Middle East and Europe. Photographer, Writer, Tattood Mystic. Performance skills range from the aerial circus arts; aerial silk, spanish web, corde lisse, static trapeze and aerial ring to harness work, fire and pole dance.
“Aussie Aerial Circus Superstar” – DNA Magazine


LADA REDSTAR (FR)- "International Showgirl Sensation!"
Lada is one of the most influential Burlesque artists of her generation. With beautiful couture costumes, natural charisma and show stopping sensuality, she is glamour personified.


MISSY MACABRE (UK) - "The Sideshow Sweetheart"
An international and revolutionary, Circus Sideshow performer from London. Missy presents a diverse variety of Sideshow and Cabaret disciplines, manifesting them together in a perfect plethora of wit, elegance and danger.
''Sideshow Royalty'' Bizarre Magazine


PIPPA THE RIPPER (AUS/UK)- "Hula Hijinx!"
Audience slayer extrodinaire Pippa has a black belt in charm, and skills to thrill. Pippa Coram has achieved world wide notoriety as a ground breaking Hula Hoop act.
"The best hulahoop act I have ever seen” Simon Cowell - Britain's Got Talent.

LUCKY HELL (FI) - "Sword Swallowing Seductress"
Beautiful, glamourous and Deadly - Burlesque, Sideshow, Suspension Artist. Finland's only female sword swallower.


And, OPHELIA BITZ (UK) "The inimitable potty-mouthed pin up!"
With the sharpest razor-tongued wit in London; Ophelia Bitz is a vocalist, ring-mistress, compere and performance artist.
Miss Bitz is most at home commanding audiences of thousands as she hosts glittering circus shows and enchants underground cabaret clubs with her powerful voice, and witty banter.
"Dirty, witty, fabulous: Ophelia Bitz is f*cking hilarious" Martyn Jacques, The Tiger Lillies

Amazing Ari 

Pippa The Ripper 

Missy Macabre 

Ophelia Bitz

Lada Redstar 

Lucky Hell

Circus themed photobooth from Atelieri O. Haapala! www.ohaapala.com



NO: STREET CLOTHING, JEANS, TRAINERS ETC...
DOORS AT 9PM, SHOW STARTS AT 10PM SHARP.
CLUB NIGHT AFTER SHOW PARTY UNTIL 3AM!!
(THIS IS A SEATED EVENT - FOR TABLE RESERVATIONS, CONTACT M.MACABRE@HOTMAIL.COM)

VANHA YLIOPPILASTALO - HELSINKI
Mannerheimintie 3
00100 Helsinki, Finland
040 571 1728

TICKETS ON SALE AT www.tiketti.fi

ADVANCE TICKETS 30€
ON THE DOOR 35€