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Title
Dame Peaches Von Killingsworth Oral History Interview, August 25, 2021
Description
Dame Peaches Von Killingsworth introduces herself as a performer, a producer, and a vocalist. She defines Burlesque as a teasing performance art framed around human sexuality, absurdism, and humor. Her style of Burlesque is avant-garde with thematically darker undertones and she chooses this art form for its performance art sensibilities.
She describes how the Covid pandemic completely shut down the thriving Burlesque community in Eugene. Because it’s an art form that needs a live audience, and because people weren’t able to gather in public spaces during the pandemic, the art form and community crumbled. She shares how the pandemic put her into a stressful survival mode, with little creative outlet.
Dame Peaches strongly believes that the art form of Burlesque is a force for social change in terms of how it builds community and is an open expression of human sexuality.
She describes how the Covid pandemic completely shut down the thriving Burlesque community in Eugene. Because it’s an art form that needs a live audience, and because people weren’t able to gather in public spaces during the pandemic, the art form and community crumbled. She shares how the pandemic put her into a stressful survival mode, with little creative outlet.
Dame Peaches strongly believes that the art form of Burlesque is a force for social change in terms of how it builds community and is an open expression of human sexuality.
Creator
Dame Peaches Von Killingsworth
Source
Oregon Burlesque Performers Oral History Collection (OH 49)
Publisher
Special Collections and Archives Research Center, Oregon State University Libraries
Date
August 25, 2021
Contributor
Laurie Kurutz
Format
Born Digital Video
Language
English
Type
Oral History
Identifier
oh49-von-killingsworth-peaches-20210825
Oral History Item Type Metadata
Interviewer
Laurie Kurutz
Interviewee
Dame Peaches Von Killingsworth
Location
Eugene, Oregon; interview recorded over Zoom
Original Format
Born Digital Video
Duration
0:31:18
OHMS Object
Interview Format
video