Ritual Rhythms Chicago

10/15/2026

10/12/2026

Wrapup of this year's Occult Cabaret by Illumi-Naughtie Occult Burlesque featuring Vivian Meretrix Lo Ca and scarletseance of windycitywitches KᗩO ᖇᗩ ᘔEᑎ ✶✶✶✶ 🧿 Thorne Von Nosh 🥀 moose Tiffy Lee 💜Madame Latte Mortez 💀 CRYPTITS Sabina England ~ Deaf Poet Performer 🪷✨ and the incomparable Shimmy LaRoux showing us how a warrior queen gets it done.

Footage courtesy of Lo Ca and Ray Duran

This was the 4th anniversary of Illumi-Naughtie Occult Burlesque and it was our most powerful show yet! Each act demonstrated a core aspect of occult history, starting with poetry and ending in transcendence.

Shoutout to our incredible behind the scenes crew, stage manager Ramona Romance and assistant Jean-Pierre Lizzie DeSade Vidrine

We'll see you at Krampus Karnival on December 4th!

10/11/2026

The opening of our sexy séance at Occult Cabaret last night with Illumi-Naughtie Occult Burlesque at Newport Theater !

Featuring Lo Ca and scarletseance of windycitywitches and the head hottie of the Illumi-Naughtie, Vivian Meretrix !

Thanks for an incredible show with an amazing cast who all got the assignment! And a fantastic packef audience! More footage to come!

10/10/2026

Tonight! VIP is sold out! General Admission is going fast. Don't miss Occult Cabaret 2026 by Illumi-Naughtie Occult Burlesque at Newport Theater !

10/09/2026

Tomorrow night! Saturday, October 10 at 7pm! Illumi-Naughtie Occult Burlesque will manifest the Occult Cabaret!

Only 4 VIP tickets still available! General admission available! Link in bio.

We will hold a sexy séance invoking the spirits of occult history, including Aleister Crowley, Lady Frieda Harris, Maria de Naglowska, Austin Osman Spare, Marie Laveau, Ahmad Al-Buni, Sosipatra, and Queen Nzinga!

Featuring the talents of Shimmy LaRoux moose Thorne Von Nosh 🥀 Tiffy Lee 💜Madame Latte Mortez 💀 CRYPTITS Sabina England ~ Deaf Poet Performer 🪷✨ scarletseance

With special guests Lo Ca of windycitywitches and KᗩO ᖇᗩ ᘔEᑎ ✶✶✶✶ 🧿

Hosted by the head hottie of the Illumi-Naughtie, Vivian Meretrix

Stage manager Ramona Romance
Stage kittens and tarot readers Jean-Pierre Lizzie DeSade Vidrine and Nox StormWeaver

10/08/2026

10/07/2026

Our annual Occult Cabaret will feature a special guest, presenting his version of the Great Beast, Aleister Crowley: Chicago’s own KᗩO ᖇᗩ ᘔEᑎ ✶✶✶✶ 🧿

Tickets still available for this Saturday's show! At Newport Theater 7pm. Link in bio.

Kao Ra Zen is a Chicago-based interdisciplinary artist, performer, poet, curator, educator, and cultural organizer whose work moves through hip-hop, spoken word, experimental performance, music, film, theater, and movement. His practice combines socio-political inquiry and existential reflection with an approach he describes as “piecemeal syncretism”—drawing fragments from music, literature, mythology, spirituality, politics, comics, cinema, popular culture, memory, and lived experience to create new artistic languages and temporary mythologies. Working both independently and collaboratively with musicians, dancers, filmmakers, visual artists, and writers, Kao creates performances that blur boundaries between artistic disciplines while building unexpected relationships between artists, audiences, and ideas.

10/06/2026

This Saturday, one of our special guests for the Occult Cabaret will be Stella Mortadella (Lo Ca ) of the windycitywitches ! She'll be helping us conduct our opening séance invoking our seductive spirits! Tickets are still available! Link in bio.

Stella is a Chicago-based burlesque performer, instructor, choreographer, and producer. She is the founder of the Windy City Witches, Chicago's sluttiest q***r coven. She was an instructor at Siren Chicago for the entirety of its existence, and has been able to teach hundreds of students all over the world, through her Burlesque Babes performance series, her specialty workshops, and her signature seasonal class, Witch S**t, which she has taught at the Ritual Rhythms Creative Studio, among other venues.

10/05/2026

Bringing a bit of chaos to the proceedings, the Occult Cabaret will evoke one of the 20th century's most unique occult minds - Austin Osman Spare!

Occult Cabaret is this Saturday, October 10th at 7pm, Newport Theater Get your tickets while you can! Link in bio.

Considered the godfather of chaos magic, Spare was a painter and artist who perfected a system of magickal sigil drawing and automatic writing still used by practitioners today!

Embodying the wild spirit of Spare, author of the Book of Satyrs, is none other than CRYPTITS

CRYPTITS has been performing for around three years now (or perhaps millennia, who is to say). They are members of the burlesque troupes Foxy by Proxy and the Lawrence Burlesque Society and have competed in local competition shows such as The Nerve (2025). They are varied in performance style, and is always performing something new, something strange, something altogether different.