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Deborah Dunn describes her successful piece, Elegant Heathens, as Dangerous Liaisons meets dance.
Deborah Dunn describes her successful piece, Elegant Heathens, as Dangerous Liaisons meets dance.
The piece, which Dunn says is sort of a court drama, is mounted here along with Dunn's solo work, Macbeth's Wife.
Both pieces have toured extensively with Dunn's Montreal-based company, Trial & Eros.
Dunn says she had been doing a lot of hard esthetic, modernist work when the idea for Elegant Heathens came to her. Specifically, she says, she was looking to create something lush and colourful.
What interests Dunn the most is the struggle of the hedonists.
"My characters are a little bit repressed and intense, they also have these desires, but I play a lot more with that battle than I do with letting the audience witness some sort of hedonistic indulgent kind of thing," she says on the phone from Montreal.
The dance itself is characterized as "a release technique influenced by an esthetic."
Dunn says her dance goes in and out of the floor a lot: "It's very classical, there's a lot of port de bras but the dancers aren't ballet dancers and the body is really moving more from a weighted, contemporary body.
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