This evening-length work will merge a live dance performance, documentary film, and a discussion into a sensuous, immersive piece that illuminates the similarities between the labor of both sex workers and contemporary dancers in Montreal and Berlin.
This innovative, interdisciplinary approach will create a platform for re-examining the absurdity of conventional judgments of all bodyworkers — whether they work in socially acceptable spaces, such as theatres, or in marginalized spaces, such as strip clubs and brothels.
Entrance free. Gerard Reyes is a choreographer, dancer, and teacher based in Montreal. In Gerard premiered his first solo work, The Principle of Pleasure, which explored themes of desire and control through voguing, stripping, BDSM and drag. Set to a soundtrack of original remixes by pop icon Janet Jackson, the seductive solo has been presented at festivals across Europe and Canada. In Gerard established a House Ballroom Scene in Montreal through teaching weekly vogue classes, leading open practices, as well as producing and hosting balls featuring international ballroom icons.
Her research on performative gesture and movement feeds the production of sculptural objects and vice versa.
Through video, sculpture, performance, photography, and installation, she creates characters, objects, and gestures that compose enigmatic and troubling universes that navigate between the intimate and the unconscious, inspiring a heightened sensorial awareness in the viewer.
