Sex on Stage

This is the first collection of original essays, articles, and images from authors, activists, artists, and scholars that grapple with the explicit body and the staging of sex across multiple spaces - from burlesque to drag, to sex work, to traditional theatre. Sex on Stage uncovers how gender and sexuality collide on stage in dynamic, dramatic, and thought-provoking ways. By taking a broad view of sex and the stage, this book tracks influences across the underground, marginalised, and the mainstream, from ''high'' contemporary live art to the ''low'' of entertainment.Across these mediums, the staging of sex pushes against decorums of respectability, instead flaunting the body to shock, to entertain, to tell stories, and to display a new kind of gender expression. The subjects and contributors included in this collection inhabit their bodies-in fact, demand the agency of the body-in self-authored ways. Gender and sexuality here are performative, and what comes into being challenges traditional constructions of both femininity and sexuality.>

Auteur

Alison J. Carr is an artist, mentor, and scholar. She works visually and creates performances, examining bodies on display and the contexts they perform in. She is the author of Viewing Pleasure and Being A Showgirl: How Do I Look? (2018), and of the novella The Night (2023).

Lynn Sally is a scholar and performing artist. She is the author of Neo-Burlesque: Striptease as Transformation (2022). She produces and performs as Dr. Lucky.

Contenu

Acknowledgements

Setting the Stage: An Introduction

ACT I: ESSAYS

Chapter 1: "Pole Dancing Academic: Decompartmentalising the Personal, Sexual and Professional while Blending Pole Dance and Research Careers" by Carolina Are
Chapter 2: "Consuming Asiatic Femininity through Foodlesque-Exploring East-Asian Exoticism through Calamity Chang's Model Mi-Nori-ty Roll" by Julia Matias
Chapter 3: "Selling Out: Art, Stripping, and Sexual Desire on the Public Stage" by Marissa Vigneault
Chapter 4: "'The Audience is My Source of Hate': Xandra Ibarra and Fucking Whiteness" by Erin Rachel Kaplan
Chapter 5: "The Inheritance: Queer Sex in the Theatre of HIV/AIDS" by Ash Hudson-Myers
Chapter 6: "The Only Way Out is Through VIP: Discovering Genderqueer Identities through High Femme Strip Club Performances" by Ella-Gabriel Mason
Chapter 7: The Tar Baby Principle | Experiment 0.1 - A Trickster's Silence" by Ra/Malika Imhotep
Intermission I: "The ELSC Files" by Julie Cook

ACT II: MONOLOGUES

Chapter 8: "Titillation: Radical Visibility or When I Found Out I had Cancer, I Watched Dirty Dancing Over and Over Again" by Emily Underwood-Lee
Chapter 9: "The Becoming of Miss AuroraBoobRealis: From Fourteen-Year Old Club Kid to Co-Founder of Brown Girls Burlesque" by DawN Crandell
Chapter 10: "When in Doubt, Body Roll: Stories of Stripper Accidents" by Zahra Stardust
Chapter 11: "Performing Intimate Experiences in a Black Queer Body" by Toussaint Jeanlouis
Chapter 12: "Reading Nana, Théatre des Variétés" by Sharon Kivland
Chapter 13: "Stripping off Shame and Revealing Hot Joy" by Anna Brooke
Chapter 14: "Requiem for a Stripper's Suitcase" by Stacey Clare
Intermission II: "The Whoopee Club" by Lara Clifton and Tamara Tyrer with photos by Sarah Ainslie

ACT III: DIALOGUES

Chapter 15: "What Pleasure Actually Means: An Interview with Intimacy Director Yarit Dor" by Alexander Millington with Yarit Dor
Chapter 16: "Feeling Liberation: Queer Gestures Toward a World Without Rape in Jadelynn St Dre's 'Choreographies of Disclosure'" by Julia Havard and Jadelynn St Dre
Chapter 17: "The Queen of Filth: Rose Wood Comes Clean with Joe E. Jeffreys" by Joe E. Jeffreys and Rose Wood
Notes on Contributors