Perspectives: Perfume Genius & Kate Wallich - The Lesson

Perfume Genius ( Mike Hadreas ) returns to the stage in a bold new collaboration with choreographer Kate Wallich . Combining Perfume Genius’ experimental pop with Kate Wallich’s choreographic lens, The Lesson is a raw, visceral performance work inspired by The Piano Teacher , the notorious novel by Elfriede Jelinek. The Lesson explores what happens when desire has nowhere to go, and what we’re rehearsing when we practice “good behaviour”. The work moves through repression, longing, authority, and submission in unstable scenes where roles shift, and the unspeakable becomes manically physical.