About the Project
What I Do With My Body is a 60-minute solo performance combining sensual movement, spoken text, and cinematic sound design.
Onstage, the performer prepares for work in real time—stretching, applying lotion, adjusting clothing, steadying breath. These gestures are deliberate and unglamorous, revealing preparation as labor rather than seduction. As the performance unfolds, movement becomes repetitive and strained, punctuated by direct address and recorded voiceovers drawn from lived experience.
Midway through the piece, the performer speaks plainly to the audience about intimacy as work: what is offered, what is withheld, and what remains unseen. The final section slows drastically. The performer partially undresses, then re-dresses differently, leaving the audience with the body after it has been used—still present, still breathing, no longer performing.
The work uses minimal props (a chair, a bag, a single garment), with lighting and sound marking transitions rather than scene changes. The audience is not asked to consume a fantasy, but to witness the reality of a working body.
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