Turbulence Kenneth Hennessey Essay

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One would not expect a dance to disturb and challenge normative views when watching live or on the screen. The dance, Turbulence by Kenneth Hennessey, challenges those views with simple acts. The choreographer, Kenneth Hennessey, challenges these views by including the audience into the dance. Normally, a dance would not include the dance, but this dance includes the audience’s full attention throughout the entirety of the performance. Then the choreographer introduces the form of nakedness to the viewer. Nakedness is what makes the viewer discomforted, but the choreographer pushes through that normative view and introduces people’s body in the dance. Nakedness is a form of art, so it is only proper to introduce nakedness in the dance. While …show more content…
The dancer made it even better after he peed was that he laid in it for a couple seconds. The choreographer obviously uses the theme pushing and pulling to get out of the normative views of dance. With this dance in mind, the economy is always pushing and pulling. The economy will go into a crisis sometimes. The people push toward driving the economy toward a breaking point then pull back and make the stable structure of economy fall down which is why we have depressions like the one in 2007 or in 1930. When these push and pull correlate, some things do not go into effect that is supposed to. The theme of pushing and pulling in the dance occurs throughout its entirety and challenging those normative views people have in watching a dance live or on …show more content…
The man at first is covered by the choreographer who is setting up the stage, but the man who is peeing gradually comes into view. He is in the position of his hands on the ground in front of him and his knees on the ground. When he is in this position, he begins to pee slowly. The urine lasts for several seconds. Also, the man is close to the audience it is unbelievable. The man pees only several feet away from a woman watching the dance in the stage. The man who pees and the choreographer push through this comfortably that dances can have the act of peeing and doing simple actions that are normal for a human being. The choreographer was not worried that the audience was going to be discomforted and uncomfortable. The dance provides no comfort that the dance pushes through with a man pissing. In brings the audience into view of what they are doing and question if this is dance or not. The act of peeing is a form of art, so why not be creative and not be original. The choreographer obviously did not become original because he would have not had a naked man just peeing in his dance. A man peeing is unknown in dance. Especially, when that man is peeing in front of an audience. These normative views of having a dance be original with people with clothes on and not doing unreal acts like peeing. The peeing brings the audience into the dance and makes people remember the dance because it is unknown thing

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