Just received this in an email: a snippet of bODY_rEMIX / gOLDBERG_ vARIATIONS by the Montreal-based Compagnie Marie Chouinard at Sadler’s Wells Theatre, London, last September.
Half of me admires the dance (apart from the skateboard guy), but the other half of me thinks: “Awkward.”
I don’t know how to articulate how I feel about this piece fetishising objects that are usually associated with hospitals or people with disabilities. I think my stance is mostly negative, because it indirectly objectifies people with disabilities. I know the public tends to view people with disabilities as asexual (which annoys me), but for something like this when choreographer Marie Chouinard says she wants to express and sexualise the beauty of objects used by people with disablities? It doesn’t work for me, I think. To be fair, it’s a fetishism of objects, not people. Like I said, I can’t articulate how I feel about this.
You can see the entire four-part piece here at YouTube or you could just read a couple of reviews at Londondance.com