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Antigone JR.
Twenty Looks or Paris Is Burning at the Judson Church (Jr.)
Recorded at the CND 14 April 2016
Twenty Looks or Paris Is Burning at the Judson Church (Jr.)
With Antigone Jr., Trajal Harrell picks up on the process of accumulation which was so dear to Trisha Brown, and adds new coordinates to its root equation, in order to scramble still more the dizzying points of reference and identification. By honing the Sophoclean drama in on the relationship between Antigone and her sister Ismene, and then putting it through the revelatory mill of voguing over and over again, a minimalist duo emerges in which the echoes of antiquity resound. If post-modern dance developed in opposition to the Martha Graham aesthetic, Antigone Jr. , pulled from head to toe in the direction of an imagined form of Greek tragedy, amounts to a side-step, an attempt at synthesis – slicing through the Gordian knot of historical references by the bringing to the forefront of different presences. Trajal Harrell and Thibault Lac are – against all odds – two moving and dancing bodies. Two contemporary figures that send these apparent contradictions whirling into space. They fully come to terms with the tragical and heroic dimensions of the Greek text, and of their own position, here and now.
Updating: June 2016
