The piece draws on fascinating and seductive contrasts that from the outset tare manifest in the dancer’s sheer physical presence, oscillating between femininity and masculinity through his angelic, made-up face and athletic body. The unsettling eclecticism of the somewhat kitschy and ironic evocations ranges from 1950s pin-ups to Japanese geishas. The performer’s trailing dress reinforces a sense strangeness to the awe, for it seems to be an extension of his undulating body and moreover offers the possibility of an unveiling that will expose a phallus.

Spanning Cyberchrist to Pin Up, Smit’s choreographic trajectory ultimately evolves toward disintegration by transcending the limits of life, on one hand, and reason, on the other.