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Let The Mountains Lead You to Love

Let The Mountains Lead You to Love

2003, 75 mins

‘An extraordinary work from the outset. Charlotte Vincent’s multi-tasking vision is fresh and engaging, the dialogue tightly effective, and the dance element elastically watchable’ Independent on Sunday

 

Set in a white landscape, strewn with autumn leaves and 12 tall trees, Let The Mountains Lead You to Love is a rich and playful look at love in its various forms, full of vitality, innocence and a healthy dose of cynicism. Releasing six extraordinary performers from the restrictions of the city to indulge in the confusions of their sexuality, the puzzles of attraction and the joys of fake folk-dancing, Let The Mountains Lead You to Love brings together performers from Austria, Poland and the UK. Funny, touching and achingly honest Let The Mountains Lead You to Love reveals the unspoken dreams, daring aspirations and deep regrets of everyone involved.

Funded by the Arts Council England, Sheffield City Arts and The Esmee Fairbairn Foundation. Co-commissioned by Sheffield Theatres, Danceworks UK, Hall for Cornwall (in association with Dance Agency Cornwall) and Arnolfini.

 

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Director's Notes

I spent my early childhood playing in the woods across the fields at the back of the house where I grew up, with my invisible friend Jackie. The summers were filled with damson trees and gooseberry bushes, rabbits, foxes and cows at the gate. We would head off to climb trees, paddle in the stream and flatten the long grass into little dwellings and we would play and chat for hours until it got dark.

As a teenager, when my parents had separated and we had moved away, I revisited the fields at the back of a house, which was no longer mine, to sit on the style, try to conjure up Jackie and to cry.

As an adult I dream of this place; a universe where I can think freely, a space where I can share and shape things, a place to play. I call this place a theatre. Perhaps you are my new invisible friends. I think that I am trying to tell you something about love and loneliness, about transformation and change.

I hope that Let the Mountains Lead You to Love rekindles a memory in you that may have shaped who you are and what you have become. And I would like to dedicate this work to the men in our lives who allow us, as women, to be free.

Charlotte Vincent

 

 

 

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