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This October, the Canada National Ballet returned to London for the first time since 2013 with a series of performances at Sadler’s Wells Theatre.
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In 1975, Laura Mulvey first came up with the term “the male gaze,” where the assumption, particularly within the media, was that those consuming and watching most art forms were male, or male identifying, hence the need for women being represented as mere window dressing and sexually appealing objects. This was largely ubiquitous in film, art, pop videos and on fashion runways—even in dance productions. However, with strides being made in contemporary society in recognising that gender is largely a construct, and that it's no longer about male and female, but rather than gender can also be trans, fluid and/or non-binary, said male gaze is becoming increasingly redundant and reductive. With choreography from Marne and Imre van Opstal, Eye Candy for Rambert plays with this idea.
Rambert in Marion Motin’s “Rouge.” Photograph by Camilla Greenwell
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