This was Rose English’s first live performance: performed at Leeds Polytechnic (Leeds, England) and made with five female collaborators. Using porcelain as her prop, she celebrates sexuality and the body, the women encountering one another in separate, choreographed scenarios.

The porcelain cache-sexes, which are tied around their waists by satin sashes, were done so as part of the performance: a performance which culminates with a porcelain veil (suspended on a piece of rope) crashing to the ground, breaking into small pieces.

Made during the rise of performance art as a genre in the 70s, Rose plays on the female stereotype of the ballerina - a dainty, ultra-feminine woman, dressed in pink - and re-presents the ballerina as an unabashedly provocative and sexual being.