Following Mudam’s presentation of The Conspiracy of Performances by Trajal Harrell in 2018, the acclaimed choreographer and performer returns to present Sister or He Buried the Body.
Harrell gained international recognition for creating a series of works that bring together the tradition of voguing – a modern dance style developed in the late 1980s from the Harlem ballroom scene – with early postmodern dance. In his latest work, the artist combines voguing with gestures that derive from Butoh dance, which was conceived in Japan during the late 50s and early 60s. This new work is conceived as a speculative remapping of the history of contemporary dance and its composition.
Weaving the links between two seemingly distant dance cultures, the artist puts the body at the centre of his research, exploring the ways in which it becomes a receptacle of memory, the past and historical characters who have inspired this work. Intertwining notions of time, history and transcultural references, it reveals the multitude of layers that make up the richness of history of contemporary dance.
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