weakness of the flesh

“Films.Dance” This series of short dance films curated by L.A.-based Jacob Jonas the Company concludes with the choreographer’s new work “Weakness of the Flesh,” featuring dancer Emma Rosenzweig-Bock.

This put the runner, in his tracksuit, in a ‘God-like role,’ both ‘man and superman, ego and super-ego, performing a Foucaultian battle that will ultimately result in the mastery of the mind over the weakness of the flesh.’

This put the runner, in his tracksuit, in a “God-like role,” both “man and superman, ego and super-ego, performing a Foucaultian battle that will ultimately result in the mastery of the mind over the weakness of the flesh.”

Now, former D.C. mayor Marion Barry, a revered political fighter also hampered by a weakness of the flesh, has a statue, too.

His movies force us to contemplate the weakness of the flesh and our susceptibility to desire with eyes wide open.