Celeste Barber - Backup Dancer

Celeste Barber has a laugh that precedes the joke. You hear it before you understand why, and generally, that's enough to draw you in! She built her community unintentionally, one evening in 2015.

With her sister, they were laughing via text message at photos of stars that scroll by on Instagram, those perfect poses, meant to make us feel insecure, until one day she recreated one herself, lying in the mud in her underwear, Kim Kardashian style.

She posted it, laughed, and added . Ten years later, 10 million people follow her on Instagram: not for polished content, but to see her dismantle, with a very particular tenderness, the dictates sold to us in photos.

Because yes, before being “the girl who makes fun of Instagram”, Celeste Barber made her mark elsewhere. Trained in theatre in Western Sydney, she starred for four years in All Saints, a cult medical series in Australia. 3 million donors. Unprecedented.

The world discovered her name for a completely different reason than her Instagram parodies.

Since then, she has lived multiple lives: heroine of Wellmania on Netflix (top 3 worldwide, a Logie Awards nomination to boot), then author and performer of her own one-woman show, Backup Dancer: two hours of comedy, stories about her relationship, her children, her body, told with a self-assurance that is uniquely hers.

The tour has filled venues in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, then the United Kingdom, Europe and Dubai. Over 120,000 tickets sold, without a single, without a music video, just her… and a microphone.

10 million followers who call her by her first name, sold-out venues on four continents: the numbers are there. But what makes her strong is this impression, when seeing her on stage, that she is telling