🗂️ [[Creative Works]]
# Music, that Eats People
*Solo Dance Performance*
Korean International Performance Art Tour (2011)
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**Created and performed by** Jeremy Neideck
*Music, that eats people*, is a solo dance performance that takes as its inspiration a poem from the epilogue of *Gaudete* by renowned English writer and husband of Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes.
The author’s text is full of images wrapped in the consuming, violent, and beautifully sublime…
> *Music, that eats people*
> *That transfixes them
> On its thorns, like a shrike
> To cut up at leisure
> Or licks them all over carefully gently
> Like a tiger
> Before leaving nothing but the hair of the head
> And the soles of the feet
> Is the man-eater
> On your leash.
> But all it finds of me, when it picks me up
> Is what you have
> Already
> Emptied and redacted*
This work premiered in 2011 at the **Bucheon International Performance Art Festival** (South Korea) before touring to five different cities as part of the **2011 Korean International Performance Art Tour**.
It was also featured as part of Ann Street Party for [Valley Fiesta 2011](http://www.valleyfiesta.com/) (Brisbane).