This video shows a snippet of Marie Chouinard’s piece, bODY_rEMIX/ gOLDBERG_vARIATIONS.
The “Canadian choreographer whose work is known for its sexually voyeuristic content. Early performance events saw her urinating and masturbating on stage and auctioning herself off for the night to audience members.”
The performance piece bODY_rEMIX, to me is a highly sexual and suggestive piece. The dancers are all nude, save for, nipple cups, swaddle cloth-like under wear and S&M harnesses and usually enhanced with a crutch or two.
Crutches are used as phallic replacements. One section where a man on crutches, with a crutch affixed to his groin walks up to a clothes rack and proceeds to slap the crutch off the top. This to me suggests intercourse.
The performance is a surreal one. The soundtrack of cannibalized Bach only adds to this surrealism, as does the blatant fetishism.
The relevance I feel to my work again is the use of metaphors for genitalia and intercourse.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2010/may/16/body-r…
A small piece of bODY_rEMIX/ gOLDBERG_vARIATIONS by Marie Chouinard
