Work
For a number of years now, Alexandra Bachzetsis has been exploring the
various provinces and domains of 'mainstream' popular culture –
hip-hop, fashion, strip-tease, movies – and extracted the signature
vignettes and ensemble pieces from it that have come to define her
choreographic, performative practice: that of a joyful criticality in
which erotics and empathy commingle with the scrupulous detachment of
the anthropologist's gaze – all the time questioning and
re-imag(in)ing tropes of contemporary femininity. She likes to seek
out the psychological danger zones of 'performing' – where "acting
out" and parodic demonstration turn into actual identification and
inhabitation, and the academic nuances that keep role-play and reality
apart no longer seem to matter all that much. It is within the realm
of 'acting' and 'playing', in the end, that we locate the
possibilities for becoming fuller beings.
All texts by Dieter Roelstraete except where stated otherwise