1 post tagged “street performance”

Wandering around Rome on Sunday, I became mesmerized by this molto postmodern dance troupe. Donning different period costumes, moving very sloooowly and wearing on their faces various looks of despair and dimentia, they held the rapt attention of several hundred tourists in Piazza Navona.

I'm not sure I understood this particular piece of performance art any more than rest of the gelato-eating americans gathered. But my theory went something like this: Judging by the age of the dancers and their PoMo-fem-studies flair, I decided it was a conceptual historical piece, depicting four different faces of Italian women's oppression, and also a commentary on the state of modern dance.

Or something like that.