Yvonne Meier

I regret that I cannot find any relevant videos of Ms. Meier in performance. But perhaps these stills and text will suffice to convey her uniqueness. Spare no expense to rush to NYC to catch this act!

Another view of determination emerged on Monday, courtesy of the bold downtown choreographer Yvonne Meier. In “Durch Nacht und Nebel” (“By Night and Fog”), she keeps her audacious reputation intact, as well as her predilection for props. Here, they include a hefty mound of rubble, plastic eggs with baby dolls inside — she shoves them in her mouth — and Band-Aids. They cover much of Ms. Meier’s voluptuous, nearly naked body; as she shakes, they quiver, transforming her skin into scales.

Fearlessly morphing from one creature to the next — one transformation involved an orange bodysuit affixed with the plastic babies, and in another, she was coated in black paint — she exposed her aging body with aplomb.

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Posted By: Paul - Thu Jan 14, 2016
Category: Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art | Avant Garde | Dance

Comments

Are you kidding me?? Why?

Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 01/14/16 at 12:01 PM

I just went out and did a bit (a very small bit) of research on Ms. Meier. She once did "The Shining" which was apparently "a thrilling dance-installation set inside the intricate maze of 350 refrigerator boxes".

Remember when words like determined, bold, audacious, thrilling and fearless actually meant determined, bold, audacious, thrilling and fearless?

Posted by Puptentacle on 01/15/16 at 01:46 PM

Refrigerator boxes? There's a William "Refrigerator" Perry joke in there somewhere.

Posted by ges on 01/15/16 at 02:04 PM

How can I get them to look at me. Come on, think Yve, think. Hey, I got it, I'll go to NY and be a performance artist.

Posted by GFinKS on 01/18/16 at 12:07 PM

C'mon, don't you want to help her raise $14,000 to bring "The Shining" back to life? https://vimeo.com/53916173

Posted by Evilevl on 02/12/16 at 04:20 PM

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