More rehearsal footage (Performers continue to develop their solos or duet through recalling and developing improvisations from being on all fours and from the notion of being consumed-literally, eaten alive.) Some important words from Emilyn Claid's book Yes?No!Maybe....Seductive Ambiguity in Dance......"Seduction in performance becomes an interactive, interchangeable, pleasureable play of multiple meanings and identites between performers and spectators-a physical action of desiring."
"submit to pleasure as a statement of power.." (171)
I begin to really refine my research now as I ask: can the woman's body be submissive and dominant on all fours?
Other questions beginning to surface: What does the position 'on all fours' mean for a woman? How is it perceived in different situations, cultures etc.? Can this position be a source of power? Can being in a submissive position be a source of power? Are images of women, therefore, their bodies, being consumed by spectators?
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