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"GOLGOTHA"*

Steven Cohen (ZAF/F)

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First production / Dance

French Premiere!

9, 10 october 2009

Fri 11.15pm, sat 11pm


You can sell everything! Buy everything! To live is to consume! To be is to have! Steven Cohen, a radical South-African performance artist fights against this world of a destructive nature. As a tribute to his brother who committed suicide and whom he considers one of the casualties of economic war, the choreographer dances, shoots and invents a pagan, accusatory and sensitive ceremony. An act of love and memory where he welcomes beauty, politics and violence... as always. �It is not about bringing the dead back to life, but to bring death unto life�.


�In Johannesburg, Steven Cohen and his partner-in-crime Elu are a moving two-headed bomb. Walking and dancing, in their work, are always on the edge of collapsing. As militant gay white guys faced with a black society unwilling to accept them, this pair is walking on the tightrope of race and artistic genre issues.� G�rard Mayen / Mouvement


See synopsis (pdf in french/88kb)


In residence: 21-25 Sept & 5-11 Oct 09

* For health reasons, Steven Cohen was not able to showcase this production at Les Subsistances in 2008; 2009 will be his year.

Les Subsistances, laboratoire de création artistique, spectacle et théatre à Lyon