DROP DEAD GORGEOUS
VINCENT DANCE THEATRE / DADA VON BZDULOW THEATRE (POLAND)
Artistic Director Charlotte
Vincent
Composer John
Avery
Set Design Richard
Lowdon
Devised and Performed by TC Howard,
Peter Shenton, Aurora
Lubos, Patrycja
Kujawska, Leszek Bdzyl, Charlotte
Vincent
Lighting Design: James
Harrison
'The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting' Milan Kundera
Drop Dead Gorgeous is a piece for six dancers, performed on a tonne and a half of slate stone. The piece explores how pain acts as an instrument for shifting consciousness, how doubt acts as a fuel for testing long held assumptions. Taking place in a stark and broken landscape, bombed out by men with guns and missiles and bombs and hate, six people move, talk, dance, attack, tell tales, act out their worst nightmares, hide in the shadows and share secrets and lies.
Drop Dead Gorgeous was created in the Wybrzeze Theatre, Gdansk, Poland and at Yorkshire Dance, Leeds, with a production week at Arnolfini, Bristol. Drop Dead Gorgeous was commissioned by Arnolfini Live and Yorkshire Dance and funded by Sheffield City Arts, City of Gdansk, Zak Club Gdansk, The British Council, Yorkshire Arts and the Arts Council of England. This work is dedicated to Lea Parkinson, Henryk Tomaszewski, Terry Weltner and Andrea.
