“Lola Montgomery is a student who recently gained her PhD; pretty normal, you might be thinking - only she performed a striptease to get it. Better known as her burlesque persona Lola The Vamp, the Australian became the first dancer to actually perform the art of burlesque for a PhD”

“showing real bravery and originality...working at a very advanced level and developing practice skills with originality and sophistication”

“By going beyond the exploitation/empowerment binary and placing her work in the aesthetic discipline required for a number of traditional forms (mask, ballet, bodily inscription, the manipulation of fetishes, the candidate moves the discussion about burlesque along and places it deep in our growing understanding of performance as a dynamic interplay between communicative craft and audience expectation”

“Australia's foremost burlesque artist!”

"Well done! What's not to like?"

"Glorious! C'est magnifique, Lola!"

"Don't go"

“Lola the Vamp and La Viola Vixen have to be two of the most beautiful classic showgirls I have come across in a long time! ”

“8 hottest Burlesque Stars of All Time: Gypsy, Dita, Josephine and Lola: Some burlesque performers are content to practice their art as a hobby, or a mere career path. Shake your groove thang, cover your naughty bits with some feathers, collect a check. But few people have the giant brass lady-balls to turn their love of burlesque into an academic pursuit. But that's just what Lola the Vamp has done, earning her Ph.D. in burlesque. That means in all her correspondence, she gets to sign of "Lola the Vamp, Doctor of Burlesque." And that, friends, is totally friggin' cool.”

“a Mona Lisa type of quirky charm, that she has shadows swirling underneath the surface about to break, but never quite doing so.”

"It's intimidating. We're not used to naked women running around. At least not in recent years anyway" "Beautiful"

“Lola the Vamp performed an astounding burlesque routine. So elegant and stylish, she has such amazing stage presence! Combining ballet with the best of European Burlesque. Arriving in an Amsterdam chair and looking like she had emerged from Carnevale did Venezia, complete with the vintage hat… she was breath taking!”

“Lola is Australia’s premier mistress of burlesque...it’s a hell of a show. A show she’s executed everywhere from the homeland (including, but not limited to, nationally on the Big Day Out tour) to glittering Las Vegas, Paris and Tokyo. Nick Cave summed it up in a single word, in true Cave style: “Beautiful”. She manages to wrap the crowd in a haze of fantasy, taking them back to a time of subtle erotica and elegant performance.”

“One of the most internationally recognised and impeccably styled burlesque divas. Lola’s dramatic shows and smouldering looks will take you to an exotic netherworld you’d only ever dreamed of. Come for the rare opportunity of seeing this burlesque superstar shine. ”

“'Lola The Vamp is spearheading the retro stripping artform's snowballing revival'”

"A highly developed aesthetic and a sly wit..super sexy without ever being tawdry...Lola is in a league of her own"

“Magnificent! Had jaws dropping across the country”

“'Widely acknowledged as Australia's best solo performer'”

“Our highest profile starlet”

“Lola, the vamp, a woman so in control of her art form as to be more dominant the greater her state of undress, was magnetic. We are fish on hooks”

“Lola's strips have real tease...these women have skills and sex”

"Old-school fetish princess"

“(the cast, featuring Lola The Vamp) know a thing or two about sex and sensuality...ravishing to look at...know a thing or two about showbiz”