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China: Death metal opera

Categories: East Asia, China, Arts & Culture, Ideas, Music

Frances at Supernaut describes the choreographing process [1] in preparation for her co-produced death metal Cantonese opera set to show this weekend:

“I'm working in a way that is far more satisfying choreographically, and profoundly more interesting and involving as a performer and as an audience, but quite inimical to the idea of temporal, procedural and mechanical choreography. So there is a barely-conscious, long-term attempt to actually choreograph, that is, to make concatenations of movement using specific vocabularies in a way that has this pre-historic ballet intellectualisation of body-as-(Baroque)-machine, and do it in a way that owes more to present-day methods of doing things, that is to say, executing code.