69 positions

Sexual utopia

Nudity, excess, orgiastic eroticism, ritualistic pleasure, audience participation and political engagement, all expressions of the sexual utopia particular to the counterculture and experimental performances of the 60s. Starting out from these historical notions, Mette Ingvartsen looks closely at our contemporary bodies, searching for cracks by which to penetrate our understanding of sexuality today. In doing so, her body turns into a field of physical experimentation and odd sexual practices emerge in relation to the environment that surrounds her.

69 positions is a solo by the Danish choreographer Mette Ingvartsen, with which she starts a new cycle of work entitled The Red Pieces. In this series she places sexuality and the relation between the politics of the body and structures of society under the magnifying glass. The series is a contemporary reflection on sexual practices, on how bodies produce and change structures of society by the way they move and act.