A Love Song

A Love Songy : 18 Monkeys Contemporary Dance Theatre

"ART | Performance

"A LOVE SONG"

a contemporary dance theater inspired by Jean Genet's Film & Poetry

Words by Jitti Chompee

Jean Genet's art reveals and celebrates our common humanity. which he suggests bears the seeds of common connection on a multitude of levels. "A Love Song' is my interpretation of of his work in a contemporary dance and theatrical form. I chose ' Un Chant d'amour and Le Funambule' to illustrate how as an artist I find myself walking on a tightrope even though I could fall at any time.

'Un Chant d'Amour' is a beautiful silent film in which Genet communicates through visual language and ignores traditional plots and psychology, Genet's plays rely heavily on ritual, transformation, illusion, and inter-changeable identities. His experiences in prison have formed much of his work. The homosexuals, prostitutes, thieves, thieves and outcasts in his plays are all trapped in self-destructive circles.
'Le Funambule' (The Tightrope Walker), an ode to artists in general, written in 1955 explores not only the loneliness and solitude of an artist but also serves as a poetic meditation on Genet's love for the 19 yr old tightrope walker, Abdullah Bentaga."