Concert Review: Christine And The Queens Promote Positive Experimentation At Terminal 5
Christine And The Queens has to have been one of the best concerts I have ever seen, along with one of the most positive. She is an artist that promotes mindfulness of one’s sprit and creative expressions in her music. Something that she immediately states in her concert by calling it a “free zone”.
I can get almost sentimental talking about the power of Christine And The Queens concert. Her virtuous aims are clear: acceptance and happiness. She proudly proclaims that for your time with her you are allowed to be whatever you want to be, even if its a bicycle or sink. This may make you laugh, but it is proof the genius of Chrisitne’s imagination. Who would think of life as a sink? Christine would! Why? Because she is a songstress that goes beyond the stereotypical confines of what it “art”. She is 100% living in her own skin, which explains the vividness of her set and choreography.
Both the dance and lighting of her performance was made for an arena, which I am sure by next year will be MSG or Radio City. It may sound strange to describe someone’s art as this, but her set felt articulate. There was an eloquence to her movements that made her body speak with elegance at just one snap of her fingers or point of her toes. As she sways and leaps throughout the stage she reminds everyone how even our physicality caries a language. Yet, hers might be the most beautiful form of speech as it tells of freedom.
Christine elaborates in her hilarious banter and incendiary personal warmth that she wants people to love themselves, and be free to discover what it is about themselves that there is to love. A member/major advocate of the LGBTQ community, she is all about no judgment, yet that is a universal, human principle. Judgement, particularly of one’s self, is a chain, and no one’s mind and spirit can grow if it is chained. It is this idea that fuels the art installations that Christine calls songs. Each one carries its own choreography and visual effects to become a voucher for what inner liberation can do to bring you joy in the form of your own creativity.
Christine danced and sang her debut album Chaleur Humaine like it was a greatest hits compilation, and this was her Farewell Tour. There was this overarching sense of experienced wisdom and living in the moment like it was your last. Each song served as a foundation for an exposition on her vocal range (WOW!She can riff!), and her dance moves (WOW! she has RHYTHM!). All in all, I walked out of Terminal 5 feeling so empowered, and open to exploring my own greatness because that is how Christine And The Queens, in concert, makes you feel; like there is something wonderful about you that has yet to be but must be discovered. For more information on Christine And The Queens Click Here.
