SURRENDER YOURSELF TO ME
WELSH INDEPENDENT DANCE
Directed by Charlotte
Vincent
Devised and performed by Jem Treays, Douglas Comley, Eleanor
McDonald Suzanne Firth, Jo Shapland, Iain Payne
Lighting Design James
Harrison
In April and May 2005, Charlotte Vincent directed a new work Surrender Yourself To Me for Welsh Independent Dance, a collective of dance practitioners living in or affiliated with Wales.
Set in the aftermath of a dance hall gathering, six performers slowly expose their internal desires and personal flaws in a new production that strips away social etiquette to reveal what's hidden underneath.
With a landscape of chairs that is constantly shifting, and with someone always on the edge of the action, Surrender Yourself To Me is a collision course of emotions, a physical exploration of how people share intimate contact and then find themselves very, very alone.
With thanks to Taliesin Arts Centre, Arts Council of Wales, Chapter & Project 2000.
