Trajal Harrell
Antigone Sr. / Twenty Looks or Paris is Burning at The Judson Church (L)
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Antigone Sr. / Twenty Looks or Paris is Burning at The Judson Church (L)
With Trajal Harrell, Stephen Thompson, Thibault Lac, Rob Fordeyn, Ondrej Vidlar
Set Design, Erik Flatmo
Lighting Design, Jan Maertens
Sound Design, Robin Meier et Trajal Harrell
Dramaturgy, Gérard Mayen
Coproduction New York Live Arts ; Centre national de danse contemporaine-Angers ; Centre chorégraphique national de Franche-Comté (Belfort) // Corealisation Les Spectacles vivants – Centre Pompidou (Paris) ; Festival d’Automne à Paris //With the support of The Jerome Foundation, The Multi-Arts Production Fund, and the Joyce Mertz-Gilmore Foundation. // Residency support WpZimmer (Anvers), Workspace (Bruxelles), Pact Zollverein (Essen), Dansens Hus (Stockholm) // Premiered the 25 of April 2012 at New York Live Arts
What would have occurred had postmodern dance met with the Harlem voguing scene in 1963? Trajal Harrell has started a series of pieces to answer this question. Seeking echoes between voguing – a movement born in African-American and Latino homosexual communities – and Ancient Greek theater, Antigone Sr. uses posture, travesty and excess as a way to challenge political, sexual and aesthetic norms.
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