Ecdysiast

She works as an ecdysiast.

I had never seen an ecdysiast before; toward the end she was wearing nothing but seven beads, four of them sweat.

However, the Queen of Ecdysiasts, Gypsy Rose Lee, was not amused. In a 1940 interview, she leveled her guns against Mencken: "Ecdysiast, he calls me! Why, the man... has been reading books! Dictionaries! We don't wear feathers and molt them off... What does he know about stripping?"