A Love Song :Dance Theatre
A LOVE SONG: Contemporary Dance theatre inspired by Jean Genet.
18 Monkeys Contemporary Dance Theatre
"ART | Performance
"A LOVE SONG"
a contemporary dance theatre inspired by Jean Genet's Film & Poetry
Words by Jitti Chompee
Jean Genet's art reveals and celebrates our common humanity. which he suggests bears the seeds of common connection on a multitude of levels. "A Love Song' is my interpretation of of his work in a contemporary dance and theatrical form. I chose ' Un Chant d'amour and Le Funambule' to illustrate how as an artist i find myself walking on a tightrope even though i could fall at any time.
'Un Chant d'Amour' is a beautiful silent film in which Genet communicates through visual language and ingnores traditional plots and psychology, Genet's plays rely heavily on ritual, transformation, illusion, and inter-changable identities. His experiences in prison have formed much of his work. The homosexuals, prostitutes, thieves and outcasts in his plays are all trapped in seld-destructive circles.
'Le Funambule' (The Tightrope Walker), an ode to artists in general, written in 1955 explores not only the loneliness and solitude of an artist but also serves as a poetic meditation on Genet's love for the 19 yr old tightrope walker, Abdullah Bentaga."
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