Music Title: ‘Its My Party and I’ll Cry if I want to’ (first performed as Group Bondage at St James Cabaret 2011…)
Music Artist: Lesley Gore
In Flagrante show dance title: It’s my party
Choreography/narrative/theme:
This dance satirises the eternally confused, needy and classically insecure bimbo – the object of pop culture female stereotyping. It has a cast of two or four captive blondes searching for approval and love.
Dancers: Amanda Macfarlane, Maria Munkowits, Shanelle Lenehan
In Flagrante show dance title: HORSES (first performed St James cabaret 2011
Music Title: Horses Burlesque
Music Artist: Andrew Keoghan
Choreography/narrative/theme:
‘Horses’ engages with a clear-eyed kick in the funny bone and a garrulous oddball innocence all of its own. A short work with four female dancers whose impudent charm and ironic ingenuous humour, satirise female servitude as sexual avatars and objects of fetish and dangerous desire.
Photo credit: Phil O’Reilly
Dancer – Amanda Macfarlane
Photo credit: Tim Whittaker
Dancers: Julie Van Renen, Maria Munkowits, Lucy Lynch, Sofia McIntyre
In Flagrante show dance title: DAY
Music title: Our Day Will Come
Music Artist: Klaus Waldeck
Choreography/narrative/theme:
Playing on the ironic possibilities of Our Day will Come– this work taps into the smoky layers of Waldeck’s render of this classic track. A darkly theatrical, rawly sexual detour into a toxic utopia…where a day of reckoning is manifest. Comedic, stylish and deeply satirical.
Photo credit: Dave Simpson
Dancers from left: Shanelle Lenehan, Liv Tennet, Sofia McIntyre, Maria Munkowits, Julie Van Renen (7 months pregnant)
Photo credit: Tim Whittaker
Dancers: Lucy Lynch, Maria Munkowits, Julie Van Renen, Sofis McIntyre
In Flagrante show dance title: WHIP SOLO
Music Title: MEMORIES
Music Artist: Klaus Waldeck
Choreography/narrative/theme:
This work, set to the brassy strutting beat of Memoriesdraws its inspiration from a 1950’s treatise on wifely etiquette and the deference she should pay her husband. As a comedic counterpoint the dancer prowls, pouts and piss-takes – a sexualised vamp mocking the condescension and patriarchy of the spoken words.
Photo credit: Kaveh Kardan
Dancer: Lara Liew
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