Antigone Sr. / Twenty Looks or Paris is Burning at The Judson Church (L)
/ KEINE DISZIPLIN 2015
What would have happened in 1963 if representatives of the voguing scene in Harlem, New York rode down into the city in order to perform together with the pioneers of postmodern dance in Judson Church? The New Yorker choreographer Trajal Harrell asks this question in his series «Twenty Looks or Paris is Burning at The Judson Church». His research on the parallel history of postmodern dance and voguing has brought forth pieces of various clothes sizes: (S), (XS), (M) and now (L).
So now it is antiquity and Harlem. Again, the sublime merges with sub-culture. With its extravagant flow of texts, songs, costumes and catwalk poses the distance between audience and the five dancers is dissolved. Harrell implies an immediate relation between antique tragedy and today’s strategies of aesthetic rebellion in order to discuss pressing contemporary topics: dignity, identity, racism, homophobia.
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