JESUSA RODRIGUEZ
www.elhabito.com.mx

Bio

Jesusa Rodríguez is Mexico’s leading cabaret and political performance artist, who ran the famous Teatro Bar El Hábito in Mexico City with her wife Liliana Felipe. She is the recipient of an Obie Award and the first artist named Senior Fellow of the Hemispheric Institute.

Abstract

Sor Juana Striptease
Jesusa Rodríguez performs a fragment of Sor Juana Ineés de la Cruz’s 17th century poem, “Primero Suenño,” which she confesses was the only poem she ever wrote for pleasure and for herself. As she strips away the levels of the poem, she also strips away her clothes.