Botten Soot

Her primary venue was the cabaret and revue theatre Chat Noir, where she performed for most of her career.

[2] She learned ballet as a child and was a student at Thora Hals Olsen ballet school; later she studied singing with Bergljot Ibsen, Wilhelm Cappelen Kloed and Raimund von zur-Mühlen, and harmony with Carsten Carlsen.

[1] Soot made her stage debut as a dancer in 1911, as a revue artist at the Chat Noir in 1913, and as a singer at Nationaltheatret in 1914.

She spent most of her career entertaining at the revue stage Chat Noir where she performed together with Einar Rose, artistic director at Chat Noir and at the Mayol-teatret opposite theater and film actor Harald Heide Steen.

[1][6] After the Second World War, Soot toured Norway with her one-woman show, in stand-up comedy style.