…(holy, holey, wholly)

…(holy, holey, wholly) explores the sacred, whorish and multiplicitious experience of female pleasure through a contemporary rendering of La Traviata. Originally Giuseppe Verdi’s tragic opera leaves sex worker Violetta undone by the “privileges” of her work, shamed for her empowerment and the connections she’s built with it. …(holy, holey, wholly) posits my life alongside Violetta’s, our holes being holy, ourselves being whole.

A text and movement based solo, …(holy, holey, wholly) takes its basis from a fictitious narrative written in 2013 about a one-night stand, this journey becoming a performative basis for renegotiating pleasure, who it belongs to and a soft look at “the body, where all the splits in Western culture occur.”- Carolee Schneeman.

…(holy, holey, wholly) was performed at Hollins University in 2017.

Costume by Victoria Lillich.

Sound score by Rebecca Lillich//Krüger