Let the Mountains Lead You to Love

TOPICS & THEMES

Live Music

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.

Videos

Artistic Director's Reflection on Let the Mountains Lead You to Love, filmed in 2014.

Audio

Vincent Dance Theatre · I Want to be Alone

Vincent Dance Theatre · Crossings

Photos

Press

“The poetic physicality of her style is absolutely suited to the rough and tumble complexity of our times. It would be a loss to contemporary choreography if she stayed too long out of the fray.”

Gareth Evans, The Stage, 17 April 2003

“Charlotte Vincent’s multi-tasking vision is fresh and engaging, the dialogue tightly effective, and the dance element elastically watchable.”

Jenny Gilbert, The Independent on Sunday, 6 April 2003

Audience Feedback

“Really enjoyed every minute of Let The Mountains Lead You to Love. Communications with the audience was superb, the humorous side brilliantly conveyed. It was so good - controlled and erring on the side of understatement so as not to mask the other messages of passion, anger, loneliness, rejection, despair and narcissism. All supported so well by music and design - a triumph!”

Audience member, Lancaster

“At last - something to challenge the viewer, supported by impressive ensemble work.”

Audienec member, Chichester

“You are completely responsible now for my addiction to dance and dance theatre. Thank you.”

Audience member, Somerset

“I left feeling emotionally invigorated, having had certain memories reawakened... Let The Mountains Leas You to Love was in turn funny, intense, intimate, magical and thought provoking.”

Audience member, Wiltshire

“The dancers were delicously unconventional. I loved the way they appeared to have a hand in devising the work and their personalities had been allowed to seep through. The unpredictability of it was excellent. Great theatre... I am filled to the brim.”

Audience member, Bristol

“Many aspects of your piece have satyed with me, the comical TC, and the beauty of the violinist intertwined. It was very quick and easy to connect with all the characters in the performance.”

Audience member, Newcastle

“I am writing to say how much I enjoyed Let The Mountains Lead You to Love... The wealth and variety of ideas was amazing, both in choreography and in the visual and sound effects. There were sudden surprises and changes of mood that were never forced. Above all, the dancers moved and acted beautifullt and made this a memorable experience.”

Audience member, Dorset