Researching the Perchtenslaufen I come across Gisele Vienne's dance performance "Kindertotenlieder" which brings teenage dolls onstage with Perchten ( Is this the etymolgy of Berchtesgarten - the garden of an Alpine Freya - goddess?) G_V has a back catalogue of performances involving dolls and a novellist called Dennis Cooper, whose seedy and trendy novels and pop-culture journalism I have noticed but not read and who won a Sade prize in France a few years ago ; better than an Orange or a Booker then.
http://www.g-v.fr/creations/ve-kindertotenlieder-frameset.htm
Dolls’ creation, Raphaël Rubbens, Dorothéa Vienne-Pollak, Gisèle Vienne
She has a show in Cardiff on Feb 5 2011.
Jerk ( creation 2008 )
Gisèle Vienne / Dennis Cooper / Peter Rehberg / solo for Jonathan Capdevielle
February 3, 2011 / Manipulate Visual Theater Festival - Edimbourg (UK)
February 5, 2011 / Chapter Arts Centre - Cardiff (UK)
