Tender, brutal and humorous, the choreographer’s 1978 piece about gender wars and sexual mores still feels acutely contemporary
Photograph: Tristram Kenton/the GuardianPhotograph: Tristram Kenton/the Guardianfirst brought Kontakthof to London and yet its subject matter hasn’t aged a bit. Its themes centre on the endless miseries of mating, gender wars and sexual mores as well as the irritations, humiliations and pain we inflict on each other in our struggle to connect and make physical contact. The pursuit, judgment and abuse of women is ever present, too.
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