Burlesque Noir

I began my burlesque journey the moment I decided to reclaim my body temple as more than an object to please and appease my own or someone else’s carnal desires. It has become a form of raja yoga for me, making movement my meditation while reclaiming childlike playfulness–exorcizing the spirit of shame forever.

Inviting Woman To Laugh, Follow Their Curiosity, & Move their body

with the Primordial Essence Immersion

In a culture that simultaneously represses women’s sexuality and exploits it for profit, the feminine body is treated as both threat and commodity. We’re taught to be modest enough to be respected, but desirable enough to be wanted. To keep our knees together in daylight, but somehow be masters of seduction behind closed doors. It’s a puritanical paradox — repress the real thing, then mass-produce a hollow version for public consumption.

Meanwhile, our media hypersexualizes everything — lips, legs, even laughter — while shaming those who dare to explore sensual expression on their own terms. Women who own their desire, their curves, their fire? Too much. Too wild. Too free.

This cultural contradiction doesn’t just confuse — it wounds. It teaches girls to disconnect from their bodies, to see pleasure as performance, and to abandon their sensual self in the name of survival.

And that’s why Primordial Essence’s Burlesque Noir is the medicine.

I do my best to remain playful, adventurous, and captivating all at once; whilst, inviting the audience to feel and remember aspects of themselves–often neglected for versions more socially acceptable.

Attuning Student to this frequency Involves…

💃🏾 1. Returning the power to the performer.

Burlesque isn’t about pleasing the male gaze — it’s about reclaiming your own. Every move, every reveal, every moment of stillness is chosen, not demanded. That choice heals.

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🎭 2. Making hallowed space for play, not perfection.

Burlesque invites humor, exaggeration, and raw imperfection. It says: You can be sexy, silly, sacred, and strange all in one act. You don’t have to shrink. You get to shine.

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🔥 3. Healing shame through spectacle.

By placing sensuality on stage in all its power, burlesque turns what we’ve been taught to hide into something to honor. Not just for applause, but for transformation.

Well first off, GAWD did! AND I’ve been dancing since my teens: Auxiliary dance in both high school and college bands, commanding stages from ballet on pointe to jazz, modern, go-go, and Afro-fusion. I’ve taught the babies at Dance 411 in Atlanta how to pique with pride, and led movement classes inside sacred retreat spaces where the body speaks what the mouth cannot find the language to express.

But it’s not just technique that makes me credible — it’s testimony.

I’ve danced through violation, low self-worth, overconsumption, heartbreak, and depression. Music and movement became my medicine, my ritual, my return. I don’t just perform — I teach from the lived curriculum of healing. I move because it keeps me alive. And I share it because it calls others home.