THE DRY PIECE
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"... She lets her four dancers in "The Dry Piece" (2012) dance completely naked and dusted with glitter on the HochX stage. After a choreographic positional rotation at the beginning, they soon format themselves in the middle and drift to the music of Tom Parkinson the synchronous, ornamental and geometric formation movements of Busby Berkeley to the extreme. the best known is probably "Dames - Beautiful Girls" from 1934. However beautiful and mesmerizing these human patterns may be, they are also problematic. all of which were similar - blonde, slim and pretty. But in this day and age, when #metoo's rising wind has brought a gender debate, it's important to challenge this.Although they perform uniform movements, they are not uniformed, because each carries its own body. Although it glitters and smacks everywhere and flashes body parts. The conscious steering and influencing by the eye of the camera becomes clear. Then the stage trembles with penetrating beats and the bodies seem threatening in the hectic light. And they are, especially in "The Dry Piece" and especially because in the end it gets loud, like everywhere in the world. "
