Roi, the King, Elvis Presley. The king of music whose iconic look and movements influenced and disrupted the world of performance and entertainment.
The show proposes an investigation into the systems of attraction and performer/audience interaction, the creation of a seductive body, which articulations are stretched today in the locution “to be Elvis”?
What forms of fascination determine a contract with the spectator, what must be sacrificed to be loved, or admired? A confrontation of desires between the declarant and the listener with the emblematic figure of the artist from Memphis as its starting point, an investigation into the evocative meanings of the word ‘spectacle’.