18 people at a theater at Germany’s Stuttgart required medical treatment for severe nausea after watching a performance that included live piercing, unsimulated sexual intercourse and copious amounts of fake and real blood. The incident happened after two performances of Sancta, a work by the Austrian choreographer Florentina Holzinger. The Austrian artist has previously suggested that her opera was less designed to mock the church than explore parallels between the conservative institution on the one hand, and kink communities and BDSM subcultures on the other.