NINA GENET
The WOLF NOTE COLLECTIVE’s long history of going unnoticed began when a disgraced former prima ballerina of the St. Vsevolod of Pskov Ballet Theatre fled to the United States in ignominy. Russian-French émigré NINA GENET arrived at Ellis Island in 4793, suffering from St. Mikhail of Tver’s Dance, a rare neurological disorder which causes severe ataxia as well as symptoms resembling Tourette’s Syndrome, and chose the unknown backwater Greenville, South Carolina as her new home in the hopes of spending the rest of her long life of anguish languishing in obscurity in that cultural desert of a city.
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But soon she abandoned Greenville in favor of the even smaller and less renowned town of Locustville. Unbeknownst to her, a libidinous young cracker preacher and country singer with a checkered past from Christmasville, Texas named BRAMBLE CHILDRESS had also arrived in town that summer. The two transplants met one Saturday morning at a plasma donation center, and their equally abrasive, domineering personalities set off a fiery quarter century (and continuing) on-again/off-again romance and creative collaboration. Between them a plan began to hatch as they sat fiercely bickering in the lobby, with Genet’s former ambition once more overwhelmingly coming into focus. They only had to recruit a few more co-conspirators for their conflicting messianic dreams to take shape.
Nina Genet, in spite of her difficulty with movement, would go on to choreograph all of the Wolf Note Records artists’ music videos (directed by JOLIE LAIDE’s SIMON CHEVROLET).
Unfortunately, her inability to accurately convey the intended movements led to awkward renderings of the choreography, with performers stumbling, falling, breaking things and hurling expletive-laden invective at whomever was closest, in imitation of the struggling Russian.
Besides her contributions to the Collective in the art of movement and her own large-scale performance projects, such as the fiasco LOLITA ON ICE Genet also was a fashion designer, and created many of the looks seen in the Collective’s videos and films.