Choreography in the Age of Post-Privacy: Sex, Intimacy, and Disclosure in Pina Bausch and Michael Parmenter. Issue 1 (2nd January 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Kolb, Alexandra
• Is Part Of: Dance chronicle. Volume 43:Issue 1(2020)
• Page Start: 32
• Page End: 62
• Publication Date: 2020-01-02
• Subjects: Post-privacy -- sex -- intimacy -- privacy -- the public -- feminism -- homosexuality -- Pina Bausch -- Michael Parmenter; Dance -- Periodicals; Dancing; 792.805
• DOI: 10.1080/01472526.2020.1711666
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0147-2526

Abstract

Abstract: This article situates choreography within topical debates on post-privacy, critically interrogating a trend toward the exposure of intimate life and sexuality in performance. A scene from Pina Bausch's Window Washer (1997), shedding light on domestic violence and the sexualized female body, is related to the feminist assertion that "the personal is political." Michael Parmenter's A Long Undressing (1995), a piece about the artist's identity as a gay man, catalyzes discussions of the closet, individual authenticity, and queer identity politics. I assess the two works' contributions to discourses on the private-public distinction, drawing on a range of contrasting perspectives from philosophical, sociological, and political fields.