Hi, I'm Perle!

I'm a healing artist, the founder of Healing Through Seduction, and a living legend in the burlesque industry.

I went from surviving exploitation at 19 to reclaiming my body, identity, and autonomy—and eventually becoming a Burlesque Queen who captivated audiences around the world. Today, I help women reconnect with their bodies, rebuild self-trust, and stop abandoning themselves to meet everyone else's expectations.

As someone who knows what it means to experience exploitation, disconnect from your body, and live in survival mode, I understand that healing isn't just about understanding your past. It's about learning to feel at home in yourself again.

Healing Through Seduction is the culmination of my life's work. Since launching the framework in Tokyo in 2012, I've guided thousands of women through workshops, online experiences, and immersive practices that combine self-seduction, the art of burlesque, ritual, and embodied self-reclamation.

My work is for the women who are used to being the strong one—the ones everyone counts on. They're accomplished, caring, and capable, but they've spent so much time showing up for everyone else that they've lost touch with themselves. I help women reconnect with their bodies, honor their boundaries, and learn to show up for themselves as fully as they show up for others.

Before bringing this work into healing spaces, I spent decades building an international career in burlesque. My journey took me from opening for Diana Ross at the Paradise Club in Times Square to headlining at the Sydney Opera House, Teatro Circo Price in Madrid, and international festivals across Europe, Asia, Australia, and beyond.

I made history as the first Black headliner to tour with Dita Von Teese, the first Black burlesque Queen to perform at Italy's Summer Jamboree, and the first Black burlesque performer to headline a burlesque revue in Tokyo. My career has been recognized by the Burlesque Hall of Fame, where I received multiple honors, and by 21st Century Burlesque, which recognized me among the most influential burlesque performers worldwide from 2009 to 2023. My work has also been featured in Showtime's Getting Naked, Burlesque Undressed, and media outlets including ABC, MTV, and Cosmopolitan.

In 2025, I brought my work to Lincoln Center, collaborating with The House of Noire to present an immersive burlesque healing ritual that brought together performance, community, and embodied practice.

These experiences shaped more than my career as an artist. They helped inform the work I do today: creating spaces where women can explore who they are beyond the roles they've been conditioned to play.

Through Healing Through Seduction, I bring together my experience as a performer, teacher, choreographer, and healing artist to help women reclaim their autonomy, reconnect with themselves, and live without the constant pressure to perform, please, or prove their worth.

This is about more than body confidence. It's about belonging to yourself.

And because a woman can do sacred work and still appreciate the finer things in life, I'm equally happy talking about ancestor veneration, Josephine Baker, tacos, caviar, champagne, Dynasty, and RuPaul's Drag Race.

Welcome to my world!

Selected Accomplishments

Speaking, Business & Collaborations

• Keynote speaker at the Millionaire Summit hosted by Hello Seven for three consecutive years

• Lincoln Center — Spotlight: Healing Through Seduction

• California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) — Celebrating Erotic Divinity: Liberating Black Bodies and Spirits

• April Mason’s 2nd Annual All Things Feminine Social Club Brunch

• Flourish Summit 2026

• The Priestess Within Summit

• Lipstick collaboration with RED Cosmetics in Australia

• Founder and choreographer of The House of Noire

Film, Television & Media

• Featured in Showtime's Getting Naked

• Featured in Burlesque Undressed, the documentary about Immodesty Blaize

• Featured on ABC, MTV, and the Travel Channel

• Featured in Spanish news media

Featured Publications

• Reflex Magazine Prague

• Curve

• Cosmopolitan

• Quote

• Burlesque Bible

• Pin Curl

• Bizarre

• Offbeat

• Frankie Tease

• Women's Touch

Healing Through Seduction

• Founder of Healing Through Seduction, launched in Tokyo in 2012

• Taught more than 6,000 students worldwide in the business of burlesque and Healing Through Seduction

• Received more than 1000 testimonials from Healing Through Seduction program participants

• Creator of a healing framework integrating self-seduction, burlesque, ritual, and embodied self-reclamation

• Presented an immersive Healing Through Seduction ritual at Lincoln Center in 2025

International Stages & Headline Performances

• Opening act for Diana Ross at the Paradise Club in Times Square

• Headliner at the Sydney Opera House

• Headliner at Teatro Circo Price in Madrid

• Headliner at Viva Las Vegas

• Headliner at the Prague Burlesque Festival

• Headliner at the Australian Burlesque Festival

• Headliner at the Perth Burlesque Festival

• Headliner at the World Buskers Festival in New Zealand

• Headliner at the Vienna Boylesque Festival

• Headliner at the Burlesque Festival in Nouméa, New Caledonia

• Headliner in Rome and Milan with Voodoo Deluxe Entertainment

• Headliner at Burlesque Royale Casino in Melbourne

• Performer at Lincoln Center with The House of Noire, helping usher in a new burlesque series

• Presented an immersive burlesque healing ritual and show with The House of Noire at Lincoln Center in 2025

Industry Firsts & International Recognition

• First Black headliner to tour with Dita Von Teese

• First Black burlesque Queen to perform at Italy's Summer Jamboree

• First Black burlesque performer to headline a burlesque revue in Tokyo

• First Queen of Burlesque at the New Orleans Burlesque Pageant

• Named #1 International Burlesque Performer Worldwide by Burlesque Bible

• Named among the most influential burlesque performers worldwide by 21st Century Burlesque from 2009–2023

Burlesque Hall of Fame Awards & Honors

• Best Debut, 2008

• Second Runner-Up, 2009

• Most Dazzling Dancer, 2012

• First Runner-Up, 2015

• Best Large Group, 2017

• Lifetime Achievement Award recipient