BY LISA MARIE BASILE

This weekend, I'll be watching the lovely sensualists at Dances of Vice for their Dark Venus Fetish Ball. I am always looking for something potent, heavy, and changing – something that lets me tap into the darkness and vibrancy I ignore during the work-week.

Dances of Vice events – I've been to several – are usually transformative in some way. They're beautiful, strange, and erotically-charged; every time, I'm lost in a sea of bodies so nuanced, so deliberate, so alive. Shien Lee is the creator – please take a moment to find and follow her. We as a city are indebted to her aesthetic magic and coup on boredom.

Tomorrow night, Saturday, join me on Luna Luna's Instagram and my personal dark Instagram and Snapchat (Lisa Marie Basile) as I get ready for the show. I'll also be sending pics from the event when/if I can. Next week, my diary from the event will be posted here and at Ingenue X.

Here are some images from previous Dances of Vice shows I've been to. I tend to take this quite seriously.

Have you ever been to one of their events?

#dancesofvice getup

A photo posted by Lisa Marie Basile (@lisamariebasile) on Oct 31, 2015 at 12:36am PDT

We found death #dancesofvice

A photo posted by Lisa Marie Basile (@lisamariebasile) on Oct 31, 2015 at 12:37am PDT

Ready for @dancesofvice #phantasmagorey #dancesofvice

A photo posted by Lisa Marie Basile (@lisamariebasile) on Oct 30, 2015 at 6:06pm PDT

#Halloween at @dancesofvice this year again #tbt -- this is my confused Victorian game of thrones lana del rey nightgown flapper in a telephone booth look.

A photo posted by Lisa Marie Basile (@lisamariebasile) on Oct 23, 2015 at 8:13am PDT

Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls. ~ Anais Nin

A photo posted by Lisa Marie Basile (@lisamariebasile) on Aug 15, 2015 at 8:24am PDT

Very early in my life it was too late.

A photo posted by Lisa Marie Basile (@lisamariebasile) on Aug 15, 2015 at 8:40am PDT

secret life

A photo posted by Lisa Marie Basile (@lisamariebasile) on Aug 15, 2015 at 8:31am PDT

Devil's wear

A photo posted by Lisa Marie Basile (@lisamariebasile) on Nov 1, 2014 at 2:48pm PDT

Who wouldn't wish for this.

A photo posted by Lisa Marie Basile (@lisamariebasile) on Nov 1, 2014 at 2:49pm PDT

Prepping for @dancesofvice

A photo posted by Lisa Marie Basile (@lisamariebasile) on Oct 31, 2014 at 5:01pm PDT