There's been a bit of controversy about the video, which is a performance (or, as Rolling Stone describes it, an "interpretive dance cage match") by a young girl and an adult man; there have been cries of "pedophilia!" Herself does not see that in the video. There is a difference between physical and sexual, and it's quite clear to Herself that Elastic Heart falls within the former, and not the latter. Herself likens it to sparring in taekwondo (which Herself still misses) - very much a physical exercise, but not remotely sexual.
Sia has explained that the two individuals represent her warring self states. That, we can understand. When music and lyrics aren't enough to convey the complexity of the human soul, dance can do so.
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