The Melbourne Festival offers up a joyous, provocative embrace of body politics, nudity and sexuality in society today.
Twelve naked dancers, bodies interwoven to form a single organism, move across the stage like molten lava. Later they engage in a playful “object orgy” as they explore the erotic properties of inanimate objects like a table and lamp in a spoof of sexualised advertising that uses desire as a marketing tool.
When Jonathan Holloway, Artistic Director of the Melbourne Festival, saw 7 Pleasures in Zurich he found it “absolutely gob-smacking”. Describing it as “the single best piece of dance” he saw last year, he knew immediately that he wanted it in his 2017 programme.
Choreographer Mette Ingvartsen. Photo © Danny Willems
The work was created by Danish dancer/choreographer Mette Ingvartsen with the dancers. Now based in Belgium, Ingvartsen studied at PARTS, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s renowned dance school in Belgium – “that was a very important period” – and has been choreographing since 2002.
Premiered in Graz in 2015, 7 Pleasures is part of an on-going series called The Red Pieces in which Ingvartsen explores issues around the body, sensuality, sexuality, nudity...
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