Tag: masks

giallolooks:

Possibly in Michigan (1983, Cecelia Condit)

“Possibly in Michigan is an operatic fairy tale of cannibalism, desire and dread in Middle America, a densely collaged narrative in which Beauty meets the Beast in the surreal landscape of shopping-mall suburbia. Two women with a penchant for “violence and perfume” take revenge on their animal-masked male persecutor. In this contemporary rendering of gothic enchantment, victim becomes aggressor and the familiar becomes the fantastic. Condit reworks popular narrative conventions using black humor, sing-song dialogue, and ironically gruesome images. Constructing a comically grim fairy tale of dreamlike pursuit and sexual violence, she inverts traditional Freudian metaphors to impart a subversive voice to her transgressive heroines: “I bite at the hand that feeds me.“ Possibly in Michigan is a classic tale of psychosexual horror, retold as an irreverent fantasy of the other.” – Electronic Arts Intermix

toytheatre:

Maguy Marin’s inspired 1988 ballet Cinderella was performed on a dollhouse-style set and had every character dressed as if they were a doll themselves. With dancers driving toy cars, a hobbyhorse that takes the prince around the world, and “a huge rag doll who sheds her outer lining to become an androgynous robotlike knight with a neon light that doubles as sword and wand” , Marin’s rendition of the fairytale shows themes of childhood imagination, as well as childhood fears. You can watch a trailer here .