I have a secret to tell you (please) leave with me (2006)

A quartet with a pommel horse
This dynamic, choreographic work contains references to Ina Christel Johannessens earlier productions. As in her previous works she explores a strong, physical and elegant style and form, but in this performance she also includes elements which depart from her own aesthetic style. The elegant artistic idiom is effectively smeared when dancer Dimitri Jourde performs vomiting sounds and spits on stage facing the audience. Johannessen breaks down the opposition between what is artistically beautiful and what is genuinely vulgar. In an energetic interplay between gender, desire, control and submission we are left with a sad feeling of inevitable involvement. Even the pommel horse, reminiscent of school gym halls, seems to have a more mythical function in the way Line Tørmoen frenetically balances and rides it. This creates associations with the story of Equus (play (1973) and film (1977) by Peter Schaffer), where desire for sensuality and intimacy is played out in the relationship between a young boy and a horse

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Entertainment

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• zero
• visibility
• corp
• have
• secret
• to
• tell
• you
• (please)
• leave
• with
• me
• (2006)
• Ina
• Christel
• Johannessen

[subjazzdance]

Wonderful work! :-)