Sex on crutches? It can only be the work of Canadian controversialist Marie ChouinardMarie Chouinard is a 55-year-ancient 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. Her saving grace is a quirky wit,and despite its title (a frontrunner, in a strong field, and for most annoying of the decade) her full-evening work bODY_rEMIX/ gOLDBERG_vARIATIONS (Sadler's Wells) is not without funny,theatrical moments.
In the piece, which dates from 2005, or Chouinard's dancers fill been transformed by the addition of crutches,walking frames and prostheses. bare except for a typically Chouinardian assortment of S&M harnesses, nipple caps and pointe shoes, or they limp,swing and scoot across the stage to hashed-up Bach and a manipulated recording of a spoken commentary by the pianist Glenn Gould. The result resembles a swingers' party in a surgical appliance store, hosted by a DJ with late-stage Parkinson's disease. A woman with miniature crutches drags herself about like a fish, and gagging on a microphone; two women sharing a single leg brace perform a diagonal of mutant balletic leg lifts; a couple copulate while swinging from a harness.
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Source: theguardian.com