LegsforeverXO’s Showgirl Wish List

I believe in speaking things out loud.

Naming clearly what I am creating, where I am going, what I am practicing, and what I am ready to experience has become part of how I work and expand. My Showgirl Wish List is a new extension of that practice.

Part intention setting, part behind-the-scenes studio notes, part open invitation.

This is a place to make my current artistic focus visible: the practices I am developing, the work already taking form, the experiences I'm creating room for, and the people and partnerships I'm ready to meet along the way.

It is also a record.

It’s my intention to return to these lists and see the growth, progress, and integration of my craft. What became part of my artistic vocabulary? What took form exactly as I named it? What changed along the way? What arrived that I didn't know to name yet?

And I'm building more of it out loud.

I believe creative energy is meant to move. Art makes possibilities visible. It gives us new language for what we already feel. Sometimes seeing someone else move, make, perform, speak, or create freely activates something that was already waiting inside us.

I've had to consider what that means for my relationship with sharing ideas publicly. I'm landing somewhere that feels much more expansive: I don't need anyone else to become LegsForeverXO, though I remain open about building an army of Lovebots, hehe. And I can’t stand blatant plagiarism. But if seeing something I create reminds you that you can make the thing that could only come from you?

Good.

I see people getting activated. Inspired. Y’all inspire me, too.

That's definitely the point.

So here's what I'm calling in specifically right now.

Practices

Returning to pole + stepping into aerial arts

Pole is a return for me. I remember being in some of the best physical shape of my life when I practiced regularly. I loved the athleticism, the upper-body strength, and what the practice demanded of my entire body.

Now I'm returning with a very different movement vocabulary.

I've spent intentional time developing my flexibility, range of motion, and fluidity, and I can see the difference. I'm interested in what my body knows now that the body climbing the pole all those years ago didn't know yet.

Aerial is new territory. I've been intrigued by lyra and silks for a long time because they are simply beautiful, and I'm ready to see what happens when I take this very long body into the air. Strength, suspension, extension, lines, grace. A whole different relationship with gravity.

I'm grateful to be connected with Enchantress Dance & Fitness, where I also host burlesque classes, workshops, and parties, and where these practices are accessible to me. I’m looking forward to connecting with a variety of teachers and artists who practice them, too.

It’s been time to get back in the air.

Learning the language of fans

Silk fans. Feather fans. Both.

I've performed with silk fans, and I'm developing more fluency with fans and handheld props as part of my movement practice.

The visual has always attracted me: the shapes, the relationship to music, the classic burlesque lineage, and the way a fan can completely transform and extend the form of the person holding it.

They're also a new challenge.

Movement and musicality sit at the center of how I perform. I trust myself and my body to channel, improvise, and respond in the moment. Props ask for another layer of structure, coordination, planning, and technical command. I’m excited to add that structure to my practice and eventually make it feel as playful and as free as the rest of my movement.

And fans offer one very glamorous response to the eternal performance question: What do I do with my hands?

Give them new life. Artful employment.

I'm exploring what happens when silk and feathers become extensions of an already very long form, and when enough technique makes room for the freedom I love inside the movement.

Building a regular crafting practice

I'm making more room for crafting outside of my pre-show time crunch.

Sewing. Beading. Embellishing. Experimenting. Finishing things. Learning techniques because I'm curious about them rather than because a costume currently requires them.

And I'm bringing other people into the practice.

I'm generating ideas for crafting dates where we can bring whatever we're working on, sit around a table, make things, trade knowledge, troubleshoot, talk shit, and leave having moved something forward.

Performers are welcome. So are people who simply like making things.

I'm excited to see what grows from putting the time, tables, materials, and people together.

In Production

More anime + nerdlesque

More nerd shit is already finding its way into my burlesque practice, and I'm very happy about that.

On August 29, I'm performing at Anime Conclave and bringing out a cosplay I've worn many, many times before.

Never quite like this.

I'm making more room for anime, cosplay, character work, and nerdlesque inside LegsForeverXO.

There is plenty to play with here.

Evolving Act: Killing in the Name

Killing in the Name has been performed twice now, and I see its next phase clearly.

The act is built around a critique of American freedom and the police state: who benefits, how allegiance shifts depending on what version of the truth is being told, and what happens when familiar symbols begin telling another story.

The concept is grounded. The performance has found its form. Now I'm doing the practical work that allows the act to travel and read clearly across different stages.

I'm upgrading the costume with additional appliqué and installing quick-release hooks where I need cleaner removals. I'm stoning the headgear and adding combs for stability. I'm modifying choreography so the act works across a full stage instead of depending on the dimensions of the rooms where I've performed it so far, and I'm tightening transitions between sections of music, movement, and costume removal.

I'm also developing a visual element to accompany the performance, likely a slideshow or reel that can expand the political and cultural imagery already embedded in the act.

It sits firmly in neoburlesque, and I'm interested in placing it in spaces where that kind of work is understood and welcomed.

Mostly, I'm curious about what happens when Killing in the Name leaves New Orleans.

She's ready to travel.

Golden Hour

The Golden Hour Project is unfolding.

I've enjoyed my recent conversations with artists and venues around a live performance project built from a question I've been sitting with for some time: what becomes possible when the structure surrounding the art is designed to help the art and the people creating it flourish?

That means spaciousness to create. Strong producing support. Aligned venues and brand partners. Excellent presentation. Thoughtful hospitality. And compensation that reflects the caliber of talent in the room.

My time around Tales of the Cocktail this year sharpened some of this thinking. I paid close attention to how hospitality, brands, venues, entertainment, and experience design can work together when resources and intention are aligned.

Those observations are finding their way into The Golden Hour.

The early conversations are underway. I'm continuing to connect the artists, venues, partners, and resources that can bring the project fully into form.

More soon.

Taking These Legs on the Road

Travel and exploration are becoming a bigger part of how I imagine my life as an artist.

Burlesque gives me a particularly delicious reason to go somewhere new. Another city's performers, stages, audiences, traditions, nightlife, costumes, venues, and creative communities become part of experiencing the place itself.

I'm creating more room for this art to take me places.

New York Burlesque Festival

New York has several burlesque stops on my list, and experiencing the New York Burlesque Festival is high among them.

So much talent. So many approaches to the art form. All gathered into one festival.

I'm looking forward to experiencing burlesque at that scale from the audience: watching, studying, enjoying myself, meeting people, and getting to appreciate burlesque outside of my native sandbox.

Sometimes the assignment is simply: buy the ticket and watch the show.

I know I would love it. And it’s happening soon.

Paradis Latin, Paris

Paris. Paradis Latin. A show.

This one is pure manifestation.

I'm making more room in my life for experiences that let me look around and pinch myself a little.

I'm here. I said I was coming, and here I am.

Getting dressed and going to see a show at Paradis Latin is one of those experiences.

No other notes.

Some things are worth making happen simply because I'll be delighted that I did.

2027: LegsForeverXO’s First U.S. Tour

I originally imagined 2026 as the year I would begin traveling more extensively as a performer.

2026 had other work for me.

Much of this year has been about stabilizing other parts of my life and strengthening the foundation beneath the art. That has looked like sticking the landing on another career change, navigating important shifts in relationships, and experiencing some much-needed, radical shifts in what I believe about my talent, my art, and what I am here to do with it.

A little over halfway through 2026, I can safely say that work has mattered immensely.

Now 2027 is coming into view.

It's time for LegsForeverXO to explore more cities, stages, scenes, audiences, and creative environments. I'm building capacity through connection, deepening relationships, and putting the materials, logistics, and practical infrastructure in place for a short U.S. performance run next year.

Producers, performers, and venues around the country, my wish is this: let's start getting to know each other.

Spaces + Places

Burlesque friends everywhere

Chicago. Dallas. Atlanta.

I'm curious about what y'all are creating.

I'm looking forward to experiencing more Black burlesque, drag, comedy, poetry, and nightlife outside of New Orleans, meeting the people creating it, sitting in your rooms, talking about art, and eventually sharing some stages.

I love the idea of a creative network where you have somebody to call when New Orleans is calling you and I have somebody to call when I'm headed your way.

Chicago, Dallas, and Atlanta are particularly on my radar right now.

Come find me. I'll come find y'all too.

Burlesque in unexpected places

I regard burlesque as high art and always have. In my most vivid daydreams about burlesque, I see it happening in so many surprising and interesting places.

So I'm actively exploring a question:

What other spaces can hold this art form?

What happens when burlesque enters spaces that haven't traditionally presented it? What changes when the frame around the work changes while the integrity of the art remains intact?

I have a ton of ideas brewing at once and I'm not yet at the point of a full reveal.

I am, however, connecting with unconventional spaces capable of holding beautiful, strange, sensual, thoughtful performance art.

If you're stewarding one of those spaces, I would love to talk.

Creating more pathways for New Orleans culture

I'm facilitating conversations around how more New Orleans spaces can meaningfully participate in and contribute to the culture surrounding them.

I come to this work as an artist, performer, event planner, project manager, facilitator, curator, coach, and Black performer with roots in South Louisiana. I also carry a deep interest in archival work, cultural preservation, and keeping pathways open between the people carrying culture and the physical spaces and resources capable of supporting it.

There are buildings, venues, organizations, and institutions throughout this city with the capacity to hold more of this work.

I'm interested in what becomes possible when that capacity meets relationship, context, thoughtful programming, and actual cultural participation.

If you're stewarding a space and thinking seriously about Black New Orleans art, performance, masking culture, movement, wellness, or cultural programming, I'm available for that conversation.

The conversations I've already had in this space have shown me how much can open up when the right people actually sit down together. I'm looking forward to facilitating more of them.

Let's put more culture in the room.

Collaborators

Finding my makeup home

I'm playing with makeup artists and paying attention to the creative relationships that develop.

Ultimately, I'm building toward an ongoing relationship with someone who knows my face and skin and understands the visual universe of LegsForeverXO.

A beautiful glam beat is the baseline, of course.

I'm also interested in range: character, experimentation, visual effects, transformation, and somebody who gets excited when the ideas start getting a little strange.

Makeup artists who see themselves in that: let’s please chat soon.

Photographers + filmmakers who tell stories

I'm expanding the visual-art and movement-art dimensions of LegsForeverXO, and I'm connecting with photographers and filmmakers who think beyond documenting that something happened.

Editorial eyes. Movement. Action. Curiosity. Story.

I'm particularly interested in artists open to travel, experimentation, and eventually creating limited-release photography and film projects together.

If you tell stories through a lens, show me how you see.

Costumers, makers + people who build worlds

Costume artists. Prop builders. Scenic artists. Fabricators. Makers.

People who hear an idea that sounds slightly unreasonable and immediately start thinking about how to build it.

Hi.

The scale of what I'm producing is growing, and I'm building relationships with the people whose skills larger work requires.

If you make beautiful, theatrical, unusual things, I would love to introduce myself.

I love where my own skills have taken me aesthetically, and I'm equally excited about what happens when another maker brings their specialty into the work. I'm welcoming upgrades across multiple fronts, especially in the details.

I'm still gushing over my custom pasties, Knocker Blockers by Bri the Sparkling Diamond (DM them to order). The best I've seen, honestly. They really pop and sparkle! It may seem like a small thing, but those touches change how finished the work feels and, just as importantly, how I feel inside of it.

That matters enormously to me.

Creative Exchange

I'm also making room for creative exchange.

I bring a strange and useful collection of skills to the table: creative direction and consulting, project management, event production, day-of coordination, costuming and styling, performance and movement coaching, embodiment work, accountability support, life coaching, and the general ability to take a giant beautiful idea and help figure out how the hell we're actually going to do it.

I'm interested in exchanges where what each person brings genuinely advances the other's work.

If you see an intersection between what you're creating and what I can offer, bring it forward.

I've developed a simple interest form to make those connections easier.

Find Your Place in It

This list is public for a reason.

Producers and people booking talent: if you see work that belongs on your stage, let's talk.

Artists and performers: if our practices intersect, introduce yourself.

Venue owners and cultural organizations: if you're thinking seriously about what your space can make possible, bring me into the conversation.

Makeup artists, photographers, filmmakers, costumers, fabricators, and makers: show me what you're building.

People who want to gather around a table and make things together: come craft.

And if your role is simply witnessing what develops, subscribe to the newsletter and follow along.

LegsforeverXO's Showgirl Wish List is a living record of what I'm practicing, producing, exploring, and bringing into form.

I'm naming the focus and making room for the connections that move it forward.

See you fine folks out there!