MEET THE INSTRUCTORS

Babraham Lincoln, our smallest national treasure, is a burlesque dancer, musical theatre choreographer, and visual artist based in Santa Cruz, CA. Her offbeat beauty mixed with her Warhol-esque edge and outlandish comedic timing has left audiences from San Francisco to Berlin begging for the Gettysburg Undress since 2010.  She is one half of Two Natural Redheads as well as the co-founder of the Santa Cruz School of Burlesque and Best Coast Burlesque. 

At the age of three Leah was enrolled in her first ballet class and from then on she grew up with a bun on her head and pointe shoes thrown over her shoulders. It wasn't until four years past academia that she found herself on stage singing and acting along with her dancing. Overnight she became a "triple threat", starring in the production of the Rocky Horror Picture Show as Janet. Not just a "triple threat" anymore, she decided to run away with the circus and currently performs with the Bay Area company the Vau De Vire Society. In May of 2013 Leah saw her first pole show and fell in love with the apparatus. A particular performer inspired her to use the pole as a playful and powerful dance partner and to break the negative stereotypes associated with the history of pole dancing as a symbol of sex. She has won several Pacific Pole Championship awards and performs regularly throughout the Bay Area. Leah is a performer by night and a photographer by day. She owns her own company, Elle Aime Photography, and loves to capture women as their most glamorously beautiful selves, specializing in boudoir photography.

Szandora LaVey burst into the scene in fabulous Las Vegas in 2002, go-go dancing to the reverb drenched sounds of 60’s surf legends Thee Swank Bastards. With a shake, a shimmy, and a whole lot of groove, she’s been lighting up stages and swinging through festivals and touring with bands across the globe ever since! Let’s dance, kitty cats!

Los Angeles-born, San Francisco/Bay Area-Raised, this performer has been gracing stages all over the world since the young age of 12. Before she became a burlesque performer, she performed with artists like Mick Fleetwood of Fleetwood Mac and wrote songs for some of your most favorite influential artists of the early 2000’s. In 2015 She stepped into the world of burlesque taking her talents to the classic sing and strip burlesque style to stages from the Bay Area to Australia and back again.  Not just performing but competing for titles all around the world, in March of 2020, she became 1st ever Noir Pageant Princess of Burlesque, the 1st ever all-POC Burlesque Pageant EVER Created. Kiki's mission is to create space and place for Biracial performers AND singers to be able to one day take their rightful place in the Hall of Fame as the Royals that they are.

Sade Symone is a Bay Area–based movement artist and performer known for her grounded sensuality, strong musicality, and signature low-flow style. Her work draws from burlesque and performance, blending intention, control, and a little sass. In every class, she invites dancers to get out of their heads, into their bodies, and take up space with confidence, presence, and ease.

Mojo Deville is an Oakland-based artist working across burlesque, contemporary dance, and circus-sideshow to map alternative imaginaries. They have performed at beloved national theater spaces such as the Fox - Oakland, the Apollo - NYC, the Green Room - San Francisco, and internationally as an ensemble dancer for stage and screen since 2007. Their choreopoem Forgetting Tree was listed for Best Bay Area Theater of 2023. Beyond the stage, they work as an advocate and administrator for commercial live events, with a focus on arts equity and healing justice.

Qu'in de la Noche is passion personified. A sword-wielding siren with Indigenous American roots and an irrevocable thirst for gothic excellence. Originally an award-winning martial artist from Sacramento, they made history in 2022 as the first Latin-American to join The Empire Strips Back, and had the great honor of representing the Bay Area burlesque industry at the 35th annual Burlesque Hall of Fame in 2025. 

Guided by her ancestors, the power of music, and the way of the warrior, Qu'in hopes to continue inspiring the next generation of Black, Indigenous, multicultural muses. Together, we lead with love and fight without fear. Reclaiming our culture and our autonomy  - all through the healing power of burlesque.

She’s everyone’s favorite weather girl who made her debut in sunny San Diego, but calls Oakland her home. With her uncanny ear for musicality and an eye for the creative, this tantalizing tempest hit the stage in 2019 and left audiences enthralled in her wake. Serving up dynamic dimensions of herself, Ms. Chance can easily give you something balmy and breezy or roll in like a thunderstorm. So batten down the hatches for The Bicoastal Hurricane of Burlesque, Stormy Chance.

Bay Area choreographer and creative director Kemari Ken Harris is known for his bold, seductive, and confidence-driven movement style. Having worked with both emerging and established artists, he creates a space where dancers can feel empowered and fully themselves. His heels-optional classes welcome all levels, focusing on building confidence, connection, and unapologetic self-expression.

Known as The Bad Bitch of Tease, Andy Rose is a queer Afro-Latinx & Indigenous burlesque icon, stripper & sideshow performer based in San Francisco, CA. This master seductress was recently named one of 21st Century Burlesque’s “Top 50 Ones to Watch”,  and is also the producer of Bad Bitch Burlesque, a queer strip club and cabaret and Hellz Sexy Kitchen, an immersive burlesque dinner show. Andy is the Headmistress of Tease at Jadu Movement in Oakland and is passionate about advocating for diversity and body inclusivity in the performance scene.

Miss Kitty Oaks is a captivating performer, choreographer, and movement educator - weaving together concert dance, cabaret, circus, and immersive environments with artistry. Kitty’s performance work is informed by decades of training in dance and over a decade of professional experience in the entertainment industry. She has been a featured performer, choreographer and creative producer for small- to mid-sized venues, renowned music festivals, site specific activations, as well as historic and theatrical stages.

Known as the San Francisco Sexsation and the Bombshell of the Bay Area, Edie Eve (she/they and pronounced, E-D) is one badass and proud Mexican and Yaqui Indigenous Queer Femme who loves to showcase the beauty of their culture and versatile and eclectic artistic background with each performance and photoshoot. They are an award winning Published Model, Covergirl, Burlesque, Cabaret, Go-Go and Drag Performer and 2nd Runner Up at the Queen of the Carshow competition at Viva Las Vegas in 2024.