Angel of Death

This special theatrical performance formally starts from a video installation: four monumental screens which have been set up in a square around a small stage. The audience is seated in this square, together with the solo performer, a role which is interpreted by dancer, Ivana Jozic. Both have previously been featured in Fabre’s productions. The performer enters into a confrontation with the music using language and gestures and with William Forsyth, the well-known choreographer who is projected onto the screens, and to whom this performance is dedicated. Forsyth is half-naked, dancing like ‘an angel of death’, in the anatomy museum of Montpelier, among the skulls and body parts contained in formaldehyde.

​Fabre wrote the text, ‘The Angel of Death’, which Forsyth recites, in 1996. ‘The monologue for a man, a woman, or a hermaphrodite’, which is inspired by Andy Warhol, contains several ideas relating to authenticity and the immortality of icons, which were already previously featured in Fabre’s trilogy of the body. As a consequence the performance is elevated to the level of an encounter between three minds: Warhol, Forsyth and Fabre himself given that Fabre’s personal fascination with metamorphosis, the beauty of gender, the double identity and the contradiction inherent in artistry are all referenced.