On any given night in New York City, you can see Julie Atlas Muz swimming in an aquarium as a mermaid, peeling off the outlandish costumes she dons, or covered in fake blood in the basement of a gay bar--in essence, expressing her bawdy, irreverent and unexpected sense of humor. Humor being an essential aspect of her work, Muz never strays too far from the burlesque--forever dedicated to keeping dance in the realm of the absurd.

Muz, one of the most acclaimed and prolific conceptual performers and choreographers in New York, sucker punches the boundaries between performance art, dance and burlesque with dark and twisted, come-hither performances that have secured her place in the underworld of nightlife as well as the bastion of the art world.

Ms. Muz has recently participated in the 2004 Whitney Biennial, an invitational exhibition presenting prominent artistic trends in America, during which she presented two evening length shows, The Rite of Spring and Treasure Box.

Since 1995, when Julie moved to New York from Ohio, she has been at the very center of the burlesque resurgence in New York. Treasure Box at the Coral Room contextualized, recreated and celebrated her role as the "blonde bombshell of downtown performance art." (The New York Times, 5/23/03).

You can see Julie Atlas Muz perform regularly in New York at The Va Va Voom Room, Joe's Pub, Galapagos, The Slipper Room, The Marquee, The Palace of Variety, and The Coral Room where, as head mermaid, she can be seen "swimming with the fishes" in a 10,000 gallon salt water aquarium.