Performance Workshop Series
Donation – $2 -25
Get the whole series – 5 for $50

The Broad Squad Institute was designed for women, especially women of color, to learn the art of burlesque. We are hot and happy to join Cumbe to create a special edition of Peeling Into Burlesque in a five-week online performance workshop series. In the Peeling into Burlesque you'll learn the fundamentals of Burlesque and create your own routine. You'll find freedom in your body's sensual expression through sexiness and storytelling. We'll cover the history of Burlesque, Striptease, costuming and all the shimmy and shakes of legendary hotness! Learn Toni Elling’s 3P’s of Burlesque - Parade, Pose, Peel, Black Burlesque herstory, how to come up with a burlesque name. You'll gain the temptress skills of Glove & Boas, and Garters & Stocking - the tools of the game. You’ll learn a fabulous choreography number and some arts and crafts inspiration to create pasties. Get ready to twirl in this hot girl summer with your new skills to thrill. 

The Broad Squad Institute will encourage students to participate in a culminating performance for Cumbe’s hybrid event fundraiser Feathers and Freedom by using tools learned in this workshop to create pre-recorded performance.

**You do not need a performance background to have an amazing time letting your inner diva run wild exploring the joys of your unique womanly ways.

 Take five live classes and get five instructional videos to revisit and practice on your own! Hang out in the full blossom of your sensuality, creativity, humor and hotness!

Chicava Honeychild is a Universal Healing Tao teacher under the direct tutelage of Sharon Smith and Mantak Chia. Her work is about passing along this wisdom and the magic of inner space to women. She is the Brown Girls Burlesque Creative Producer and founder of Sacred Chrysalis. Sacred Chrysalis marries the playful ecstasy of burlesque with Taoist womanly teachings, metaphysics and trauma release to create a space of renewal and creativity.