What I wORE To Work: JO WELDON IS GETTING DRESSED TO UNDRESS
Review by Vivacious Miss Audacious
New York nightlife living-legend, Jo Weldon, brought her much lauded one woman show cum live documentary to The AllWays Lounge’s Twilight Room for a rollicking two day affair. WHat I wORE to Work: a Memoir of Dressing to Undress follows a tandem tale at once personal, and historic, of Weldon’s sartorial journey from fashion curious teen to sex worker straddling shifting eras of social attitudes and evolving industry trends.
This bawdy glimpse into the nether regions of a realm usually relegated to the dark of night, Weldon illuminates viewers with engaging visuals, splashed bright on a projection screen with a full spread of imagery featuring her own personal odyssey, and performs an animated story of how her experiences are positioned within a history that spans over 2,000 years.
What I Wore to Work presents a cultural history of fashion, replete with the regulation of what we wear and who gets to wear it, commingled with the enduring influence sex workers have had on those who get dressed, from daring youth and rock n’ rollers to silver screen starlets.
More than a mere lecture, Weldon galivants and gesticulates in the garb of her profession, taking her one-woman show three dimensional with help of longtime partner and cohort Jonny Porkpie, who provides comedic interludes, hands on curios and doles out clever business cards featuring QR codes offering the research footnotes. What I Wore to Work is a must see for anyone interested in cultural history, strippers through time immemorial and the social impact of a seductive art.
Learn more at joweldon.com
Review by Vivacious Miss Audacious
New York nightlife living-legend, Jo Weldon, brought her much lauded one woman show cum live documentary to The AllWays Lounge’s Twilight Room for a rollicking two day affair. WHat I wORE to Work: a Memoir of Dressing to Undress follows a tandem tale at once personal, and historic, of Weldon’s sartorial journey from fashion curious teen to sex worker straddling shifting eras of social attitudes and evolving industry trends.
This bawdy glimpse into the nether regions of a realm usually relegated to the dark of night, Weldon illuminates viewers with engaging visuals, splashed bright on a projection screen with a full spread of imagery featuring her own personal odyssey, and performs an animated story of how her experiences are positioned within a history that spans over 2,000 years.
What I Wore to Work presents a cultural history of fashion, replete with the regulation of what we wear and who gets to wear it, commingled with the enduring influence sex workers have had on those who get dressed, from daring youth and rock n’ rollers to silver screen starlets.
More than a mere lecture, Weldon galivants and gesticulates in the garb of her profession, taking her one-woman show three dimensional with help of longtime partner and cohort Jonny Porkpie, who provides comedic interludes, hands on curios and doles out clever business cards featuring QR codes offering the research footnotes. What I Wore to Work is a must see for anyone interested in cultural history, strippers through time immemorial and the social impact of a seductive art.
Learn more at joweldon.com