An offbeat, poetic duo, RING explores the mechanisms of dominance that men can exert over one another. The performance borrows boxing’s rhythm and conventions, as well as the unspoken undercurrents of a certain erotic tension.
Lukas Dana and Erwan Tarlet begin by engaging in hand-to-hand combat, with a tempo drawn directly from a boxing match. They move through three-minute rounds, each presenting an offbeat, even grotesque variation on the ambiguous violence that binds athletes together in the ring. Their choreography soon takes a more dreamlike turn, leaving the audience unsure what to make of it—both complicit in and voyeuristic of a spectacle that is as unsettling as it is fascinating. From the dance floors of techno clubs to boxing rings, writer and director Lukas Dana has observed and experienced the stereotypes surrounding male bodies when they touch and collide. By revealing the homoerotic tension that permeates combat sports, the performance examines the ambivalence of highly regulated violence and what it means outside the ring.
Admission: From 10 to 20 euros. Bar and food available at Bocoff before and for 1 hour after the show.
Source: paris.fr — photo: Royalty-free