The Rite of Spring by Yossi Berg and Oded Graf- A Look at Two Performances by Heather DeAtley

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Suppressed feelings, stunted Intuition. This is the design: confusion and disorientation have their own violence to them. Every time Yossi began to FEEL something, moments of disbelief, confusion, something new, something strange, something real, his repetition of “Yo, yo, yo!” reinforced what was unfamiliar. He was simultaneously resisting and spell-casting with each “Yo”–a quiet opposition to Patriarchal Forces that had silenced, banished, and cursed the internal guidance systems responsible for questioning the absurdity of such force, manipulation, and control. The red fabric stuffed in the mouths of the 4 male dancers representative of this silencing by the Patriarchy.Read more