Nothing is Sacred? :: Yula Paluy

^{Image by Amanda Knowles}

NOTHING IS SACRED?

Set in present day San Francisco, Nothing is Sacred? explores the breaking and making of meaning in our connections to the self, the body, other people, and the transcendent.

Premiered at the Museum of Performance + Design (MP+D) in 2016.

Written, directed, & designed by Yula Paluy
Visual art by Jamie Lyons
Movement art by Muriel Maffre
Sound art by Derek Phillips

Translators/Actors: Marcel Barraza, Renu Cappelli, Joe Cha, Ariane Fehrenkamp, Daniella Furman, Ludovica Labruna, Yula Paluy, Abhay Sukumaran, & Evelina Szkutnik

Child voice actors: Marea Ewell & Elijah Paluy

Live scores by David Boyce (Sax), David Ewell (String bass), & Richard Howell (Sax)

Act 1: THE AWAKENING

^{Photo by Jamie Lyons}

^{Photo by Jamie Lyons}

ACT 2: LEMONADE/CANCER

Stills from Cancer/Lemonade. Cinematography Jamie Lyons, choreography Muriel Maffre, Sound Derek Philips.

^{Stills from Cancer/Lemonade, a short film. Concept by Yula Paluy, cinematography by Jamie Lyons, choreography by Muriel Maffre, sound by Derek Phillips.}

^{Photo by Jamie Lyons}

^{Photo by Jamie Lyons}

ACT 3: THE CONFESSION

^{Photo by Daniella Furman}

^{Photo by Jamie Lyons}

ACT 4, SCENE 1: OTHER-LOVE

^{Photo by Jamie Lyons. Sound by Derek Phillips.}

ACT 4, SCENE 2: SELF-LOVE

^{Photo by Daniella Furman}

ACT 5: THE DINNER

^{Photo by Jamie Lyons}

^{Photo by Jamie Lyons}

IN THIS ACT:
Abhay, product manager, speaking Hindi
Ariane, architect, speaking German
Daniella, composer, speaking Hebrew
Evelina, psychiatrist, speaking Polish
Joe, anthropologist working in tech, speaking Korean
Ludovica, marine geologist, speaking southern Italian
Marcel, curator, speaking Spanish
Renu, historian, speaking northern Italian
Yula, translator, speaking English