‘The Faun’ by Christopher Matthews

The Faun by Christopher Matthews

The Faun is part of Christopher Matthew's work: what is love, don’t hurt.
What is love, don't hurt me builds on the concept of a performance lecture, using a hybrid of dance, text, and audio-visual to explore how queer romantic partnerships have shaped dance history. Christopher will be considering partnerships such as Cunningham and Cage, Bill T. Jones and Arnie Zane, and Ted Shawn and Barton Mumaw, exploring how movement can articulate ideas that words cannot. Using gossip as academia and pop culture as theory, what is love, don’t hurt me blurs the line between the lowbrow and the intellectual.

Concept and Performance: Christopher Matthews
Film made by Christopher Hutchings
Assistance by Maya Orchin
Commissioned by The Place, supported by the Higher Education Innovation Fund