Macho (92nd Street Harkness Dance Center, 2008) explores the genre of body horror or horror derived from a sense of physical wrongness. Popular culture inserts itself through textural references to the cult films of Takeshi Miike (Audition) and David Lynch (Inland Empire) -- including the horror film tropes of juxtaposing the normal alongside the abnormal -- and to real life individuals and events such as the “Hooded Man” of Abu Ghraib. Throughout Macho the social concept of monster is recurrent as vehicle of violence, the unknown, healing, and the sublime.
Choreography: Kathy Westwater
Performance: Abby Block, Ursula Eagly, Megan Flynn, and Aaron Mattocks
Music: Peter Kirn
Art Direction: Seung-Jae Lee
Lighting: Ariel Pierce
Dramaturgy: Dan Hurlin
Premiere 92nd Street Y Harkness Center for Dance, NYC, October 2008
Video: Antonio Mendez
Photo: Carolina Kroon
