Julie Atlas Muz
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Julie Atlas Muz is a New York City-based performance artist, dancer, burlesque artist, stage director, and actress.
Julie is best known as a performer in the New York City burlesque scene and neo-burlesque
revival. She was the crown holder of the 2006 Miss Exotic World
and the 2006 Miss Coney Island pageants. The New York Times
calls her "the royalty of burlesque.
and graduated with a degree in dance and history.
for her mermaid scenes in John Turturro
's 2006 film, Romance and Cigarettes.
Julie was among the artists featured at the 2004 Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art
. At the biennial, she and thirteen other cast members had performed her take on Igor Stravinsky
's "The Rite of Spring" which is inspired by the life and death of JonBenét Ramsey
.
In January 2007, Julie, along with Kembra Pfahler
curated a mixed media art exhibition titled, Womanizer, at the Deitch Projects
. The show included works by E. V. Day
, Breyer P-Orridge
, Vaginal Davis
and burlesque performer Bambi the Mermaid. Julie's contribution was "Mr. Pussy", an exhibit of photos of her genitalia in various poses and props. The exhibit also featured video of "Mr. Pussy" greeting viewers with "welcome" in multiple languages.
and Brooklyn Community Access Television
as well as other Public-access television
cable TV in San Francisco, Atlanta, Washington DC area, and Burlington, VT. The show continues to be performed in Coney Island during the summer season.
In 2010, Julie along with burlesque performers Mimi Le Meaux, Kitten on the Keys, Dirty Martini
, Evie Lovelle and Roky Roulette were featured in the Cannes
-award winning film by French actor and director Mathieu Amalric
, Tournee
. She also appeared in Dirty Martini and the New Burlesque, a film about NYC's burlesque scene with a focus on performer Dirty Martini
.
Julie's other TV and film appearances includes cameos on Law & Order
, Gossip Girl
, HBO's Bored to Death
, Marie and Bruce
, Greg Pak
's 2003 Robot Stories
and his short, All Amateur Ecstasy.
Julie is best known as a performer in the New York City burlesque scene and neo-burlesque
Neo-Burlesque
Neo-Burlesque is the revival and updating of the traditional burlesque performance. Though based on the traditional Burlesque art, the new form encompasses a wider range of performance styles; Neo-burlesque acts can be anything from classic striptease to modern dance to theatrical mini-dramas to...
revival. She was the crown holder of the 2006 Miss Exotic World
Miss Exotic World Pageant
The Miss Exotic World Pageant is an annual neo-burlesque pageant and convention, and is the annual showcase event the Burlesque Hall of Fame...
and the 2006 Miss Coney Island pageants. The New York Times
The New York Times
The New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. The New York Times has won 106 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization...
calls her "the royalty of burlesque.
Biography
Julie is a native of Detroit. She attended Oberlin CollegeOberlin College
Oberlin College is a private liberal arts college in Oberlin, Ohio, noteworthy for having been the first American institution of higher learning to regularly admit female and black students. Connected to the college is the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, the oldest continuously operating...
and graduated with a degree in dance and history.
Performance
In the 2000s, Julie had a routine gig as the head mermaid at the now-defunct NYC nightclub, The Coral Room, where she performed along side live fish in 9,000 gallon saltwater water aquarium. She extended her mermaid role at the 2005 Valencia Biennial where she swam in Europe’s largest saltwater tank. Julie trained Kate WinsletKate Winslet
Kate Elizabeth Winslet is an English actress and occasional singer. She has received multiple awards and nominations. She was the youngest person to accrue six Academy Award nominations, and won the Academy Award for Best Actress for The Reader...
for her mermaid scenes in John Turturro
John Turturro
John Michael Turturro is an American actor, writer and director known for his roles in the films Do the Right Thing , Miller's Crossing , Barton Fink , Quiz Show , The Big Lebowski , O Brother, Where Art Thou? and the Transformers film series...
's 2006 film, Romance and Cigarettes.
Julie was among the artists featured at the 2004 Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art
Whitney Museum of American Art
The Whitney Museum of American Art, often referred to simply as "the Whitney", is an art museum with a focus on 20th- and 21st-century American art. Located at 945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street in New York City, the Whitney's permanent collection contains more than 18,000 works in a wide variety of...
. At the biennial, she and thirteen other cast members had performed her take on Igor Stravinsky
Igor Stravinsky
Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky ; 6 April 1971) was a Russian, later naturalized French, and then naturalized American composer, pianist, and conductor....
's "The Rite of Spring" which is inspired by the life and death of JonBenét Ramsey
JonBenét Ramsey
JonBenét Patricia Ramsey was an American child beauty pageant contestant who was murdered in her home in Boulder, Colorado, in 1996. The six-year-old's body was found in the basement of the family home nearly eight hours after she was reported missing. She had been struck on the head and strangled...
.
In January 2007, Julie, along with Kembra Pfahler
Kembra Pfahler
Kembra Pfahler is an American performance artist, rock musician and actress. As a performance artist she has been recognized on every "Top 10 List" published during the past quarter century. Her graphic depictions of the horror, repetition, degradation, and have been recognized as insightfully...
curated a mixed media art exhibition titled, Womanizer, at the Deitch Projects
Deitch Projects
Deitch Projects was a contemporary art gallery in New York City founded by Jeffrey Deitch.-History:Since opening with a performance by Vanessa Beecroft in February 1996, the gallery has presented nearly one hundred and eighteen solo exhibitions and projects, ten thematic exhibitions, and a few...
. The show included works by E. V. Day
E. V. Day
E. V. Day is a New York based installation artist and sculptor. Day’s work explores themes of feminism and sexuality, while employing various suspension techniques and reflecting upon popular culture...
, Breyer P-Orridge
Genesis P-Orridge
Genesis Breyer P-Orridge is an English singer-songwriter, musician, writer and artist. P-Orridge's early confrontational performance work in COUM Transmissions in the late 1960s and early 1970s along with the industrial band Throbbing Gristle, which dealt with subjects such as prostitution,...
, Vaginal Davis
Vaginal Davis
Vaginal Davis is an American genderqueer performing artist, painter, independent curator, composer, and writer. Davis's name is a homage to activist Angela Davis.-Life and career:Davis is often associated with the formation of the Queer-Core Zine Movement...
and burlesque performer Bambi the Mermaid. Julie's contribution was "Mr. Pussy", an exhibit of photos of her genitalia in various poses and props. The exhibit also featured video of "Mr. Pussy" greeting viewers with "welcome" in multiple languages.
TV and film work
Julie is the co-host (along with Fred Kahl, aka the Great Fredini) of This or That!, a burlesque-themed game and variety show that was taped before a live audience in locations in Coney Island and Manhattan. The show was aired on Manhattan Neighborhood NetworkManhattan Neighborhood Network
Manhattan Neighborhood Network is a non-profit organization that broadcasts programming on four public-access television cable TV stations in Manhattan, New York and provides a community media center that enables individuals and groups to produce shows for its network.-History:It has operated...
and Brooklyn Community Access Television
Brooklyn Community Access Television
Brooklyn Community Access Television is the Public, educational, and government access cable television network in Brooklyn, New York City, operated owned by BRIC|Arts|Media. BCAT TV Network has four channels on the Time Warner, Cablevision, RCN and Verizon FiOS cable networks, which broadcast...
as well as other Public-access television
Public-access television
Public-access television is a form of non-commercial mass media where ordinary people can create content television programming which is cablecast through cable TV specialty channels...
cable TV in San Francisco, Atlanta, Washington DC area, and Burlington, VT. The show continues to be performed in Coney Island during the summer season.
In 2010, Julie along with burlesque performers Mimi Le Meaux, Kitten on the Keys, Dirty Martini
Dirty Martini (burlesque)
Dirty Martini is a New York City-based Burlesque dancer, pin-up model and dance teacher.She is best-known for her over-the-top performance acts, which mostly incorporate various classic burlesque styles such as the fan dance, balloon strip tease, the Dance of Several Veils, and shadow stripping,...
, Evie Lovelle and Roky Roulette were featured in the Cannes
Cannes Film Festival
The Cannes International Film Festival , is an annual film festival held in Cannes, France, which previews new films of all genres including documentaries from around the world. Founded in 1946, it is among the world's most prestigious and publicized film festivals...
-award winning film by French actor and director Mathieu Amalric
Mathieu Amalric
Mathieu Amalric is a French actor and film director, perhaps best known internationally for his performance as the lead villain in Bond film Quantum Of Solace and for his role in The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, for which he drew critical acclaim...
, Tournee
On Tour (2010 film)
On Tour is a 2010 French comedy film directed by Mathieu Amalric. It stars Amalric himself as a producer who brings an American Neo-Burlesque troupe to France, played by genuine performers Mimi Le Meaux, Kitten on the Keys, Dirty Martini, Julie Atlas Muz, Evie Lovelle and Roky Roulette...
. She also appeared in Dirty Martini and the New Burlesque, a film about NYC's burlesque scene with a focus on performer Dirty Martini
Dirty Martini (burlesque)
Dirty Martini is a New York City-based Burlesque dancer, pin-up model and dance teacher.She is best-known for her over-the-top performance acts, which mostly incorporate various classic burlesque styles such as the fan dance, balloon strip tease, the Dance of Several Veils, and shadow stripping,...
.
Julie's other TV and film appearances includes cameos on Law & Order
Law & Order
Law & Order is an American police procedural and legal drama television series, created by Dick Wolf and part of the Law & Order franchise. It aired on NBC, and in syndication on various cable networks. Law & Order premiered on September 13, 1990, and completed its 20th and final season on May 24,...
, Gossip Girl
Gossip Girl
Gossip Girl is an American young adult novel series written by Cecily von Ziegesar and published by Little, Brown and Company, a subsidiary of the Hachette Group. The series revolves around the lives and romances of the privileged teenagers at the Constance Billard School for Girls, an elite...
, HBO's Bored to Death
Bored to Death
Bored to Death is an American comedy series, which premiered on HBO on September 20, 2009. , three seasons have aired, each consisting of eight episodes. The show was created by author Jonathan Ames, and stars Jason Schwartzman as a fictional Jonathan Ames – a writer based in Brooklyn, New York...
, Marie and Bruce
Marie and Bruce
Marie and Bruce is a 2004 film from Holedigger and New Films. It was based on the 1978 play of the same name by Wallace Shawn and premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on January 19, 2004. Although the film was well received and starred many major motion picture stars, it failed to receive...
, Greg Pak
Greg Pak
Greg Pak is an American New York-based film director/comic book writer, known for his work on such books featuring the Hulk.-Early life:Pak is a graduate of Yale University, where he was a member of the Purple Crayon improv group, and studied history at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar and film at...
's 2003 Robot Stories
Robot Stories
Robot Stories is a 2003 independent film written and directed by Greg Pak.-Plot:The film consists of four stories in which human characters struggle to connect in a world of robot babies and android office workers...
and his short, All Amateur Ecstasy.