Olivia Moon Photography

Nude Character Shoe is a distortion of pleasure and performance transfigured into a dance that actively asks you to objectify it. Influenced by the absurdist and liberatory nature of drag, choreographer/performer, Andrea Muñiz reflected on what “performing woman” used to mean for them. Their feminized upbringing impacted their early adult life and instilled in them an insatiable and destructive need to be desired sexually. The work uses images of hypersexualized women in pop culture and draws on the lived experience of being a performer and being objectified on and off the stage. Nude Character Shoe interrogates how gendered expectations are constructed, consumed, and internalized as a performer and spectator. 

Andrea began the work after finishing their run as a dancer in the production of Ryan Landry and The Gold Dust Orphan’s Rosemary’s Baby Jesus, a Christmas themed drag parody of the 60’s cult classic horror movie Rosemary’s Baby.