David77
06-21-2006, 11:19 AM
Here is a review of a work which entails nude dancers;
Sly Verb (2003) - Christopher House’s Sly Verb is about touch, perception and the human gaze. Inspired by Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s concept “the flesh of the world”, Sly Verb seduces with the beauty of its dancing and the force of its ideas. It is provocative, inventive, poetic and kinetically thrilling. House presents the body as both subject and object in this exquisite exploration of sensuality. Boundaries and limits are explored and breached as dancers appear clothed or naked, almost at random. The dancers literally write their signatures into the choreography with their own bodies, creating unforgettable images of strength, vulnerability and physical communion. In Sly Verb, the body is revealed as the archive of our experience.
A different reviewer, Nancy Dalva, was not so positive about the nude part as she humorously states;
About the nudity, so limiting in this context, which is neither pornographic nor private: Big hairy deal! Forget not sharing a stage with children or dogs. What you really want to avoid is being upstaged by a penis, even if it is your own. Clothes are good. And so is dancing.
Sly Verb (2003) - Christopher House’s Sly Verb is about touch, perception and the human gaze. Inspired by Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s concept “the flesh of the world”, Sly Verb seduces with the beauty of its dancing and the force of its ideas. It is provocative, inventive, poetic and kinetically thrilling. House presents the body as both subject and object in this exquisite exploration of sensuality. Boundaries and limits are explored and breached as dancers appear clothed or naked, almost at random. The dancers literally write their signatures into the choreography with their own bodies, creating unforgettable images of strength, vulnerability and physical communion. In Sly Verb, the body is revealed as the archive of our experience.
A different reviewer, Nancy Dalva, was not so positive about the nude part as she humorously states;
About the nudity, so limiting in this context, which is neither pornographic nor private: Big hairy deal! Forget not sharing a stage with children or dogs. What you really want to avoid is being upstaged by a penis, even if it is your own. Clothes are good. And so is dancing.