Knot
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Deborah Colker talks about some of her more controversial choreography:
To illustrate the point, she talks about the forest of hanging ropes that opens her newest piece, Knot, and its relationship to the underlying theme of desire. “I had done a piece called She, with Lou Reed’s music Venus in Furs. It was also the title of a book by de Sade*, about sadomasochism. And then I began to think about desire. That was my first contact with the idea of ropes. Ropes are fetishistic instruments. They have a technique: bondage. Imagine the reins of a horse, controlling all that animal wildness and freedom. Ropes can strangle, they can knot or release. And ropes are almost like bodies: they are sinuous, they bend and stretch.”
* Actually it was German novelist Leopold von Sacher Masoch whose name gives us the word masochism.
