Meet Miss Dakota Ferreiro, Jack Nicholson’s Latina Burlesque Dancer

It was, of course, totally awesome to see 72-year old rascal Jack Nicholson shaking it with a burlesque dancer last week in France, but it turns out she’s pretty awesome too! Her name is Dakota Ferreiro and of all the Wise Bronx Latinas From The Block to make the news this week, she’s definitely our favorite.

Hilariously, she was ID’d by none other than her own mom, an ex-NYPD officer who recognized her picture in the New York Post.

“I opened the paper and read about Jack Nicholson, and I saw the photo and I said, ‘Wow, she looks so familiar,’ and then I tilted my head to the right and said, ‘That’s my daughter!’ “

All grows up! And now mom’s all jealous, because she wants to meet Jack too, because who wouldn’t?

So who is this mystery woman? Turns out, Miss Dakota’s this really hot shit Puerto Rican burlesque dancer, currently based in Hollywood after growing up in the Bronx. She was featured in the Bravo series Forty Deuce (about the popular burlesque club of the same name) and is one of the in-house talking head “fundits” for Oxygen. She is also the progenitor of the fitness program “The Burlesque Body by Dakota,” which is just silly. She occasionally performs for A-list private parties, which is likely how she ended up on the floor with The Joker up there (she is, after all, holding a microphone.)

Most importantly, her burlesque act is just the greatest. Some will make the mistake, sight unseen, of confusing the worlds of stripping and the worlds of burlesque proper (like when she tried to teach burlesque to the girls on Rock Of Love 2, but they just all ended up getting wasted and rolling around on the floor). One look at a video of her act at the Forty Deuce in Hollywood will clear that right up:

God bless you, Miss Dakota. Like all good burlesque, she gets the crowd worked up like a Tex Avery cartoon before slaying them with her skills (nice aerial work on that beaded curtain, lady.) And, as if it needs to be said, totally sexy. No wonder Jack risked heart failure to get down with her. Miss Dakota is the shit, and her band ain’t bad either.

So, we salute you Miss Dakota, Pride of the Bronx! Keep up the good work, and take your mama with you next time you’re bumping and grinding with A-list celebs. She sounds pretty cool and she just wants in on the fun.

Click on the pic below for a gallery of Miss Dakota doing her thang.

JACK’S BRONX BABE [NY Post]
Miss Dakota [MySpace]