Julie Barnsley | Physical Theatre | Rope | 1989

Julie Barnsley | Physical Theatre | Rope | 1989 “This work questions traditional dance forms; it deconstructs them in order to rewrite them in a physical language that refers more to the allegorical and contingent than to the symbolic and visionary, opening a space charged with hallucinatory energy in which the image becomes a living, material, sensory thing, affecting our senses and emotions in a more direct way, and, definitely, our lives.” Lyda Zacklin.. Revista Venezuela. “The darkly dramatic Rope and Cuts were at once transparent and impenetrable” Jennifer Dunning. New York Times. “Nothing in this work is apparent, things are slowly revealed, in spite of the violence of the movement…. Julie virtually strips the man down, plays with his sense of male modesty, with his sexual fears, but with his narcissism and sexism as well…It is the rawness of a choreographic material that has not been polished, perhaps intentionally, like sketches of a male world that its author does not