In New Love: 1910: World Out of Kilter, Tony Whitfield collaborates with choreographer Alexandre Bado, director Oisin Stack, composer/musicians, Andrew Alden, William Basinski and Mathieu Goudot, with performers, and videographers in an evening length response to Adrien Barrere’s 1910 film, Tom Pouce Suit Une Femme, a work about an unlikely romance and the persistence, courage and discomfort of pursuing one’s desires. Contextualized by the destabilizing reality of the Great Flood of 1910, that submerged Paris for several weeks, this work is a reverie on love, desire, queerness, deep waters and navigating notions of “sexual misconduct.” 

In addition the video installation, Paris, 1938, will be shown in the adjacent gallery beforehand (free admission). In this work Tony Whitfield proposes versions of what many believe was a same sex relationship, resulting in an assassination, that launched Kristallnacht, an explosion of Jewish persecution by Nazis, constituting a critical pre-WW2 staging of the Holocaust. 

This Dancerie focuses on Paris as a crossroad of queer life in which, although, technically, homosexuality was legal since 1791, notions of public decency were legislated and under surveillance and further complicated by the re-criminalization of same-sex relations during the Nazi occupation that remained in place until the 1980s.