Speech is a rhetorical and political weapon. Its power impacts words but also the audience members’ bodies, just like orators. It can engage them in a transe and transform them.
‘I’m interested in how the body speaks’, the choreographer explained, inspired with Hitler’s, Mussolini’s body language as well as from other crowd-provoking personalities. This political performance also measures the gap between speech and thought. Jan Fabre’s ex star dancer, dancing on Jimmy Swaggart’s sermons mixed live, also highlights the ultra conservative position of the TV evangelist, the « crazed violence and manipulation that hides in the gestures and voices ». A quite different programme…
