ABSTRACT
From 2014 to 2017, Danish choreographer, dancer and performer Mette Ingvartsen created The Red Pieces, a series exploring the dramaturgy of the political aspects of nudity and sexuality on stage. Looking back at performance art from the 1960s, Ingvartsen’s pieces reflect on centuries of sexuality and pornography representations, standardization and thinking, especially how they replicate a certain capitalistic idiosyncrasy. In response to virtuality, her analysis of the proliferation of naked bodies representations in our contemporary societies leads her to depict stylized sex in slow or quicker choreographic sequences illustrating orgiastic acts. She tries to separate the desire such depiction would normally arouse in the audience and her discourse dissecting its standard mechanisms. The dance becomes the euphoria of an ungendered flesh.
