With wit and sensuality, political sensitivity and great candor, the U.S. premiere of to come (extended) explores indistinctions between private and public space in regard to sexual representation. Working directly on how bodies can physically connect, Ingvartsen invites us to rethink the mechanisms of desire and question the notion of individual sexual freedom as she experiments with sexual, orgasmic, and social expressions.
In this sculptural performance, the bodies of 15 performers merge into a collective group formation, making their surfaces indistinguishable from one another. Continually speeding up and slowing down, they convey the throb of our intimate desires: a diffracted form of ecstasy from which ambiguous states of excitement and pleasure might emerge.
Ingvartsen’s work is “admirably ambitious, audacious.” — The New York Times
This performance contains nudity and mature themes. Appropriate for ages 18+.
Date + Time
Date + Time
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Saturday Oct 26, 20197:30 PM
About
About
3 REASONS NOT TO MISS THIS SHOW:
- No spoilers – but the ending is epic. And not what you’d expect.
- Bust out your Foucault before you get here. This is part of Ingvartsen’s ongoing series, the “Red Pieces,” that all focus on sexuality – “not as an autonomous field of expression – but as something that directly permeates into other areas of the social and political sphere.”
- You’ll never look at Blue Man Group the same way again. Or Avatar. Or the Smurfs.
- Sat Oct 26, 2019
- 7:30 PM
- $35-$45
Advisory
This performance contains nudity and mature themes.
Gallery
Gallery
The artist
The artist
Mette Ingvartsen
Mette Ingvartsen is a Danish choreographer and dancer. Questions of kinesthesia, perception, affect, and sensation have been crucial to most of her work, which includes several site-specific propositions that have been seen around the world. Mette was artist-in-residence at the KAAITHEATER in Brussels from 2013 through 2016 and is currently part of the new artistic team at Volksbühne in Berlin.
Support
Support
Skirball Moves programming is made possible in part with support from the Mertz Gilmore Foundation and the Harkness Foundation for Dance.
