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For
its next piece, Protein Dance, led by Artistic Director Luca
Silvestrini, balances the promises of an online life and the
complexity of real relationships to put love, wanting and
connectedness centre-stage. Developed during Choreodrome
09 at The Place, L.O.L (lots of love) will premiere and tour
from February 2011.
Meanwhile
PROTEIN recently completed touring DEAR BODY, Silvestrini's
very funny, sharply observed take on the rapidly growing national
obsession with plastic surgery...
"Choreographed
by Luca Silvestrini, whose precisely skewered targets have
included booze culture (Publife, 2002) and consumerism (Big
Sale, 2005), the piece follows a platoon of gym-rats as it
stomps, pummels and snarls its way to the body beautiful.
The cast includes David Lloyd, whose work-out includes auto-erotic
strangulation; Michael Spenceley, for whom massage is indistinguishable
from criminal assault ("I want my veins to be stretched
like tyres! I'm ready!"); Vicki Manderson's dippy nutritionist
who promises "happy stools, eight to 12 inches long";
Sarah Storer's hypertensive aerobics-bitch; and most gloriously
extreme of all, Nuno Silva as a mad-eyed muscle queen who
struts and preens like Caligula, obsessively grooming his
chest hair." (Observer)
www.proteindance.co.uk
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PROTEIN in 'DEAR BODY'
photos by Johan Persson
Luca Silvestrini
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