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Trajal Harrell’s Caen Amour was inspired by the hoochie coochie-shows of 19th-century America: sensual dance performances full of orientalist fantasies. These shows come back to life in a fictional encounter of Trajal Harrell with modern dance pioneer Loïe Fuller, legendary Japanese dancer Tatsumi Hijikata and Comme des Garçons-founder Rei Kawakubo.
Harrell’s work is all about reinterpreting the past in order to reshape the present. One of the ways he achieves this in Caen Amour is with a set that resembles a merry-go-round, on which the dancers show a range of different dance styles. Sometimes veiled, wearing a simple T-shirt or bare-chested, they explore the boundaries between dance, performance, and identity. Harrell’s piece celebrates the female entertainer and highlights a moment in dance history where the lines between amusement, erotic dance and experimentation are blurred.
'Caen Amour refers to a period in the early 1900s, when women experimented with dance without having institutions for art dancing, breaking away from fixed ideas about burlesque entertainment, social, national or religious dances. They tried to make something that was artistic, and many were influenced by “oriental” dancing. This is where ‘hoochie-koochie’ dancing originates. This was historically interesting to me, and at the same time, I had vague memories of my father covertly going to such shows, that triggered my curiosity as well. At the time of creation, I was moving a lot between theaters and art galleries, which influenced the perspective of the audience. The show is a culmination of all these things.'
– Trajal Harrell, associate artist 2025
dates
Thu June 19 2:00 PM
Thu June 19 4:00 PM
Fri June 20 7:00 PM
Fri June 20 9:00 PM
prices
- default € 35
- HF Young € 25
information
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Language no problem
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1 hour 15 minutes (zonder pauze)
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Caen Amour
Orpheas Emirzas
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Caen Amour
Orpheas Emirzas
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Caen Amour
Orpheas Emirzas
