Dante Ingram is a singer who writes songs about crime and an aerialist who brings dream imagery to the stage with her band, Sideshow Villains.

She also fuses these pursuits into collaborative performances with her new project - Sideshow Villains' Deviant Cabaret. After working as a fashion designer, a shoeshine, and an artist's model, Dante ran away with a freak show, Psycho Circus, and performed with Mark "the Knife" Faje as his assistant in the knife throwing act. With Mark "the Knife" Faje, Dante appeared on Wild Chicago, The Late Show with David Letterman, and the Discovery Channel's More Than Human. She created burlesque acts to ensure she contributed to the show as more than "just a dangerous ornament".

In the early 2000's, she wrote, produced, and released Songs for Saints and Sinners under the name "Dante's Voodoo Cabaret". With that moniker, she performed in Chicago, New York, and Amsterdam.

Dante and her Voodoo Cabaret appeared solo on television as well. She danced a la fans for Ben Hollis' Ben Around Town and had a second appearance on Wild Chicago with Dante's Voodoo Cabaret. Dante's Voodoo Cabaret music was included in the soundtrack of Ivan's XTC, a film by Bernard Rose, director of Immortal Beloved, Candyman, and, most recently, Samurai Marathon.

In the mid 2000's, Dante left burlesque behind to focus on music and in the early 2010's transitioned her love of movement to aerial. She studied with Chloe Jenkins at Aerial Dance Chicago and with Hayley Larsen at Aloft - also in Chicago. She choreographed her first solo piece and performed it at Aloft in May of 2022.

Sideshow Villains is her latest project. The album includes 7 songs centered around various criminalities. Live performances billed as Sideshow Villains' Deviant Cabaret currently in pre-production will include her own aerial acts as well as other fabulous circus performers backed by the Sideshow Villains musicians. When she isn't plotting nefarious performances with likeminded deviants, Dante takes her two fluffy dogs for walks in Chicago.