Part (8) of Paysages Choregraphiques Contemporains dans le Monde

Director Thierry De Mey films a studio performance of the dance.

Based on a reproduction of original choreographic material of Le Sacre du Printemps and the personal story of Nijinsky, Liquid Loft, together with dancers of Les Ballets de Monte Carlo, stage impressive Ready Mades, by rediscovering them as containers of bygone choreographic intentions in a changed context, weaving them into contemporary structures.
Dance as an imitation of change; the sacrifice as an instrument of equalization through retaliation against the innocent. These are the archaic means of mimetic practice in this performance.

An interview with Blondell Cummings.

Disk of photos documenting working process

Contains film of performance

Continues Forced Entertainment’s enquiry into the spectacle of theatre in contemporary life, exploring the ways in which we live, breathe and tell stories in the circumscribed space of late capitalism.

Also contains ‘A True Story About Two People’

Bel narrates his own development from ten years as a dancer in the 1980s, to a sabbatical in the early ’90s spent reading poststructuralist theory, to his present-day status as a leading proponent of European conceptual dance

This item is part of the Study Room Guide On shit, piss, blood, sweat and tears by Lois Keidan (P2195)