The ABCs of Burlesque Presence for Powerful Stage Performance
I didn’t make this to teach anyone how to perform.
I made it because presence has a way of disappearing when people start explaining it.
This is an alphabet.
Not of tricks.
Not of confidence.
Of posture.
Timing.
What happens when a woman stops reaching and lets the room come to her.
Some letters arrive in white light.
Some live better in shadow.
A few refuse to cooperate at all.
There’s no right place to begin.
There’s no prize for finishing.
If a letter catches your eye, it’s already doing its job.
The Letters
Each letter appears as an image and a line or two.
Nothing solves itself.
They’re not instructions.
They’re tells.
The kind you only notice after you’ve been watching for a while.
Noir Was Never About Darkness
It was about restraint.
About what stays still while everything else fidgets.
Burlesque learned this early.
Before glitter got loud.
Before everything needed a hook.
The gaze lands.
The pause holds.
The room listens.
If You Work the Stage
You already know what this is pointing at.
Even if you’ve never named it.
If you want to spend time inside this frequency —
in bodies, rooms, and scenes where presence matters more than polish —
you’ll find the door quietly open here:
https://redhotannie.com/chicago-burlesque-classes/
Some Letters Like Company
A few only make sense when they’re seen together.
In rooms where character and tension have time to breathe.
One of those rooms looks like this:
https://redhotannie.com/into-the-shadow-a-femme-fatale-lab/
Begin Anywhere
You don’t start at A unless you want to.
You don’t earn Z.
You follow the letter that’s already watching you.
Red Hot Annie
Chicago.
Cinematic burlesque.
Noir worlds you step into, not scroll past.
I don’t flirt for approval.
I flirt to see who loses focus.
This alphabet will keep growing.
So will the women who recognize themselves in it.
