Don Juan

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Title Don Juan
Creator Organisations
Abstract/Description Having allowed the public to fondle their bodies in THE PORNOGRAPHY OF PERFORMANCE, the members of The Sydney Front now intend to redress the balance. DON JUAN is a fevered speculation on operatic excess, sex, desire and seduction. “Extreme seductiveness is probably at the boundary of horror” - George Bataille […] The theatre is haunted by the ghosts of desires only half-remembered. The dream of that one annihilating moment is still the preferred reference point, but we tend now to experience its charisma from a discreet distance. Though monstrous abandonments may now be denied us, there are still a few slits in the curtain, still a few breaches in the barbed wire through which a ceremony of seduction can be acted out. "In DON JUAN, The Sydney Front tries to find the appropriate semaphore." - Press Release for Don Juan 1991 In Don Juan, The Sydney Front created what Le Soir (Brussels) described as a ‘chiaroscuro of taboo desires’ and the Rheinische Post (Dusseldorf) ‘a wild cacophonous yearning’. The audience mingle with the performers on the performance floor, which might be a kind of soirée or Don Giovanni’s ball.
Related Works
Related Events
  • Don Juan, The Performance Space (1983-2007), Redfern, NSW, 11 April 1991
Related Organisation
Publisher Artfilms
Date Created 1991
Language English
Citation The Sydney Front, Don Juan, Artfilms, 1991
Resource Identifier 51520
Dataset AusStage