CIRQUE DU METAL
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Historical Analogies
Key Concepts:
The masks over the faces of the dancers create a carnival atmosphere with its inherent anonymity. But as is well known, the symbols of the carnival are double-faced: happiness and laughter are combines with danger and unpredictability. As a token of this unpredictability, playing cards are lining up around the dancers. The vulnerability of the lovers is recalled by their nakedness. The underlying fact is that happiness can, in a twinkling, collapse like a house of cards.
