"Holzinger, 38, is known for freewheeling performances that blur the line between dance theatre and vaudeville. Her all-female cast typically performs partially or fully naked, and previous shows have included live sword-swallowing, tattooing, masturbation and action paintings with blood and fresh excrement.
“Good technique in dance to me is not just someone who can do a perfect tendu, but also someone who can urinate on cue,” Holzinger told the Guardian in an interview earlier this year."
That’s hilarious
Varyk@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
this is a fascinating article with lots to pick out, and i did like this quote in particular.
“long list of warnings for potential triggers including incense, loud noises, explicit sexual acts and sexual violence.”
hope you’ve steeled yourself to witness intense on-stage fucking, plus sometimes they light incense!
You ready for that?!
Firebirdie713@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
Having a warning for that is incredibly important, mostly in cases where people may be allergic or have sensitivity to certain smells. Incense is not something you would expect at a theater performance, so if I went to a showing without that warning, I wouldn’t know to take my allergy meds and may have walked out of there with a migraine or needing my inhaler, depending on what kind of incense they used.
Varyk@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
If you’re allergic or have sensitivity to smells, don’t go to the experimental explosive fuck theater.
If you’re sensitive enough to incense on stage, it must be difficult to even walk down the street alongside traffic fumes.
That’s too bad, and it means you don’t get to do literally everything; you are too sensitive for some things.
You’re sensitive and have limitations. you can’t fight fires, and if you are truly sensitive to incense, must carry that responsibility around with you rather than expecting every person who uses incense to issue a trigger warning.
I don’t want to start ear-tagging domestic pets with informational placards for having dander or stapling trees with signs warning you against eating their leaves.
Don’t eat their leaves.
trigger warnings are tolerable in certain settings, and in rarer cases have a valid purpose I can get behind, but they can quickly become unnecessarily burdensome, and trigger warnings for incidental appearance of incense in live experimental art shows by radical artists can fuck off.
MY_ANUS_IS_BLEEDING@lemm.ee 6 months ago
If I had a sensitivity to smells I think I’d probably avoid shows known for people masturbating on stage