If you partake in the international dance community, I am sure you have read by now the malintent response Marco Goecke gave critic Wiebke Hüster by smothering his dog’s shit on her face; this year’s international dance community scandal equivalent to Will Smith slapping Chris Rock in the 2022 Oscars. And unlike other publications covering this incident using words like excrement and feces, to not pull any punches, it is shit.
Goecke received a review from Hüster, a critic and journalist for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, that Goecke deemed undeserving for his work titled “In the Dutch Mountains” which was presented and performed by Netherlands Dance Theater (NDT) last week, premiering 2/9/23. Hüster wrote that Goecke’s work was “disjointed” and “boring.” Goecke released a public statement on NDT’s site following the dog-shit-smearing assault and defends himself by accusing Hüster of shunning audiences away from attending the theater and that Hüster had been ‘out to get him’ for some time. This shallowly apologetic response is full of boo-hoo-me comments and did not help his case in this scenario. What was he or his publicist thinking with the strategy for this one? Please read for yourself on NDT’s site.