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Spooning with Anger

Gerry Trentham dances in My Heart Is a Spoon

01.16.2012

“Gender and rage issues are always seething somewhere underneath the choices I make,” says dancer Gerry Trentham. “As a gay man, I try to stay awake. We’re in a war and there is not a lot of time to sleep, and I see that war becoming more difficult. The community can be quite complacent.” Trentham is part of the dance-media piece My Heart Is a Spoon, which posits that the organ and utensil are similar because neither can contain rage without spilling over. “It’s not just rage in an angry way,” he says. “But it’s also the delight and ecstasy in allowing loud sounds to come out of the body. Some of the sounds we do are quite provocative.” DILF Trentham has explored androgyny before and is ready to tackle gender power politics again: “There’s a taboo around it still. And it’s amazing to me that there’s so much fear around that.”

My Heart Is a Spoon runs Thurs, Jan 19–Sun, Jan 22 at the Theatre Centre, 1087 Queen St W. acrossoceans.org

 


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