A spine-chilling, spooky and seductive cirque burlesque cabaret!About this Event
🎃 BITE!
A spine-chilling, spooky and seductive Halloween cirque-burlesque experience, returning to Chicago for a strictly limited engagement.
This spooky season, AirOtic Soirée returns to Chicago with BITE!, its dark and seductive Halloween production.
Following our recent Chicago engagements, BITE! invites audiences back into a world where sultry vampires, seductive spirits and shadow-drenched acrobats blur the line between fear and fantasy.
Featuring spine-tingling burlesque, breathtaking aerial performances and haunting visual surprises, this immersive Halloween experience combines world-class circus artistry with sensual choreography, raw physical power and moments of artistic nudity.
It’s sexy. It’s spooky. It’s spectacularly unhinged.
Chicago, surrender to the darkness.
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About the Creator
Created by Stéphane Haffner, a high-level gymnast and visionary show producer, BITE! carries the distinctive artistic signature of AirOtic Soirée, where elite athleticism meets sensual design.
Having collaborated with iconic designers Jean Paul Gaultier and Pierre Cardin, Haffner brings a couture-inspired aesthetic to this haunting production, enhancing its erotic elegance, dark theatricality and visual intensity.
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Highlights
• A Halloween-themed burlesque and contemporary circus experience
• Seductive vampires, supernatural characters and haunting visual surprises
• Breathtaking aerial acrobatics performed by world-class international artists
• Sensual choreography celebrating the beauty and power of the human body
• Moments of artistic nudity woven into elegant performances
• A dark, immersive and visually striking atmosphere
• Drinks available at the bar, with complimentary drinks included in selected ticket categories
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General Information
• Dates and times: select directly in the ticket selector
• Standard schedule: doors open at 6:00 PM and the show runs from 7:00 to 8:00 PM
• Saturday, October 31: two Halloween performances
• First performance: doors open at 3:30 PM and the show runs from 4:00 to 5:00 PM
• Second performance: doors open at 5:30 PM and the show runs from 6:00 to 7:00 PM
• Duration: approximately 60 minutes
• Venue: Experience 868 – 868 N Franklin St, Chicago, IL 60610• Age requirement: 21+ with valid ID
• Accessibility: the venue is ADA compliant
• Food and drinks available for purchase on site:
The bar offers beer and wine, refreshing soft drinks, freshly popped popcorn, classic theater snacks and signature cocktails crafted to elevate your Halloween experience.
Please consult the FAQs for this experience
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Description
Sink your teeth into the ultimate Halloween experience with BITE!
This spooky season, AirOtic Soirée returns to Chicago with a dark and seductive production filled with spine-tingling burlesque, breathtaking circus acts and haunting surprises designed to leave you screaming for more.
Step into a world where sultry vampires, seductive spirits and shadow-drenched acrobats blur the line between fear and fantasy. Every moment is charged with suspense as world-class performers defy gravity and deliver jaw-dropping physical feats with a delicious dose of Halloween horror.
When the lights dim, temptation emerges from the shadows.
Seductive aerial acts, slow-burning choreography and powerful physical storytelling come together in a world where bodies move in perfect harmony, clothing disappears in moments of artistic revelation and desire becomes part of the performance.
Each number is designed to thrill, tease and mesmerize, blurring the line between athletic spectacle, erotic art and supernatural fantasy.
It’s sexy. It’s spooky. It’s spectacularly unhinged.
Complete your experience with sinfully delicious cocktails and classic theater snacks at the bar before surrendering to a fully immersive, scream-worthy spectacle that will leave you breathless and bewitched.
Trick or treat yourself to BITE! if you dare.
Get your tickets before it’s too late.
Event venue
868 N Franklin St, 868 North Franklin Street, Chicago, United States
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