Old and new music and dance worlds collide in the search for love where the cut of your dress and the way that you move can mean social success or suicide. The dance floor becomes a battleground as the consequences of stepping outside the boundaries reveal themselves in this hour-long live music and dance piece that is part- time capsule and part- commentary on past and present attitudes to breaking or living within the rules.
A wallflower, the belle of the ball, an overbearing chaperone and the male object of everyone’s desire meet in an imaginary dance hall. As the three female characters vie for one man’s attention, a variety of themes of love, longing, disappointment and heartache are explored through music and dance tableaux that range from the elegance of the waltz, the pitfalls of looking for love online, the impossibility of finding love in nightclubs and the unexpected consequences of taking your anger out on the dance floor (and your partner). Etiquette and expectations surrounding social dancing are explored in playful, furious, thought provoking and abstract ways.
Co-created by Nerida Matthaei and Nicole Canham, performed by Matthaei, Canham, Alexander Baden Bryce and Leah Shelton.
