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Jonathan Graffam, PhD Candidate in Theatre, Monash University

Homo Pentecostus: on queer intimacies, religion, ancestry and the human need for connection

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Music pumps; lights pulsate; two sweaty bodies sway together, touching, breathing in each other’s scent.

A male body framed by downlight restlessly shifts between stances and gestures. He undresses. The intensity of music, movement and light builds while his naked body performs a spiritual act of transformation, of unbecoming.

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