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SpeakEasy Noir

Archetypal Play, Creative Prompts, Mind-Body Rituals. Enchantments. Healing Arts.

Extreme parody. Emotional storytelling. Extravagant reveals.

SpeakEasy Noir is a mind-body wellness practice and immersive movement experience for intensely sensuous and deeply curious souls. Explore power, pleasure and play through sensual movement, erotic expression, burlesque, pole dance, freestyle flow, and creative healing arts.

“I would do this work, this gorgeous, delicious body work, again and again and again… because while it let me express my sexuality in ways that I absolutely relish, it also taught me something about the intrinsic nature of me, of human beings, of sensuality and expression.” 

— BROOKE ARCENEAUX, Author & Digital Creative

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SpeakEasy Noir is a living, breathing movement. A sacred rebellion. A subversive society for sensualists, storytellers, and soul-shifters. Founded by Switchress Shay Au Lait, SpeakEasy Noir began as an immersive class and performance ritual, and has since evolved into a network, community, methodology, and agency rooted in erotic wellness, sacred kink, and the healing art of burlesque.

Blurring the lines between dance, theater, ritual, and resistance, SpeakEasy Noir offers workshops, certifications, productions, and curated experiences that center power, pleasure, and play—especially for Black, queer, and marginalized bodies. It is a portal and a practice, a home for those who use movement as medicine, seduction as strategy, and performance as prayer.

What We Do

SpeakEasy Noir is a hybrid platform that operates as a:

  • Methodology of sensual movement and erotic embodiment

  • Training and certification program for aspiring facilitators, educators, and performers

  • Artistic network and healing community for those exploring identity, desire, and liberation through embodied storytelling

  • Cultural agency and touring production company that offers performances, panels, and provocations across the U.S.

  • Incubator for legacy-building, merging spirituality, sensuality, and business development

Signature Offerings

  • SpeakEasy Noir Burlesque: Our flagship sensual movement class—a ritual of power, pleasure, and presence

  • Burlesque Alchemy: A 6-month act development and performance mastery program that bridges mysticism and mastery

  • RolePlay: A 2-day archetype and character development intensive for erotic performers and mystic educators

  • Teacher Training & Certification: A rigorous and revolutionary 3-day facilitator immersion into the science, structure, and soul of burlesque education

  • Erotic Ritual Meditations: Embodied explorations of breath, sound, movement, and shadow play

All offerings are trauma-informed, kink-aware, pleasure-centered, and rooted in liberatory pedagogies.

Our Lineage + Legacy

SpeakEasy Noir is a foundational pillar of the Black Kink Network (BKN)—a collective of cultural producers, educators, artists, and erotic entrepreneurs creating safer, liberated spaces for Black and POC kink practitioners. Through this alliance, SpeakEasy Noir is aligned with other transformative projects such as The Villains Sanctuary, Snap, Crackle & Pop-Up Kink, COVET, and more.

We are also the sensual sister brand of Siren Pack, an avant-garde performance production company led by Shay Au Lait that curates high-end, boundary-breaking burlesque, pole, and immersive events across NYC, Philly, Baltimore, Washington DC, Denver, and beyond.

Together, SpeakEasy Noir and Siren Pack form a constellation of sensual education, spiritual embodiment, and erotic entertainment.

 

SPEAKEASY NOIR EXPERIENCES INCLUDE:

  • Classes (drop-in & series, 75 to 90 mins)
  • Workshops (2 – 4 hours)
  • Immersions (1 – 4 days)
  • Teacher Training (3 days or 12 weeks virtually)
  • Retreats (3 – 10 days)
  • Group Parties (Hen, Boudoir, Burlesque, Pole, Custom)
  • Productions (Live Events, Burlesque & Variety, and Theatrical Shows)

“Cycle of gratitude to Shay Au Lait for guiding me back into my body. for allowing me to be too much in a world that often forces me to be small..” 

 — SHARA, Budokon Yoga, Nia, Antigravity Yoga, Burlesque Instructor

Sensual Movement. Erotic Expression. Burlesque & Pole Dance Freestyle.

Bring SpeakEasy Noir to your community.

We’ve led movement workshops in the most sacred and pleasure-filled spaces, such as a queer tantric monastery in the mountains of South Carolina at the Touch & Play Festival; at a yoga resort in the Nosara jungle of Costa Rica at the Soul Fire Retreat, as well as wellness, dance and fitness studios along the East Coast including Lululemon. Our offerings are also booked as add-ons and features for both national and international wellness, tantric and movement retreats, and immersions, such as Sex Witch, Radiant Ecstasy, and Dakini Tantric by Lauren Harkness.

We’ve taught classes & workshops at the following events, studios and festivals:

The Fit Factory • Movement Lab • Lululemon Baltimore • The Mythic Masculine • Touch&Play Emerging Seeds • Touch&Play Earthdance • MadameNoire • Soul Fire: Embodied Movement Retreat • CREATE Retreats • Touch&Play Transmutations • The Radiance Retreat • Sex Witch Retreat • Dakini Tantra Practitioner Training • The Rowe Center • Earth Dance • The Nest of The Owl Nest Group • Nine Mountains Retreat Center • Elizabeth Kross Photography