Kate Wallich & Perfume Genius

The Lesson examines what happens when desire has nowhere to go, and what we’re rehearsing when we practice “good behavior” Genius (Mike Hadreas) and choreographer Kate Wallich return to the stage with a new collaboration Perfume Genius’ experimental pop with Wallich’s choreographic lens, The Lesson is a raw, uncompromising performance work inspired by The Piano Teacher, the notorious novel by Elfriede Jelinek, famously adapted by Michael Haneke Lesson examines what happens when desire has nowhere to go, and what we’re rehearsing when we practice “good behavior”. The work moves through repression, longing, authority, and submission in unstable scenes where roles shift, and the unsaid becomes manically physical admirers know that Perfume Genius (Mike Hadreas) has spoken about his love of The Piano Teacher. Its intense, clinical bleakness and its capacity to be both unsettlingly comic and tragic, qualities that echo through the landscape of The Lesson their acclaimed 2019 performance… View Source