Bound To Please

Press Release

written in 1997

Do we shut out those who tell the truth or smile with those who hide it?
We feel Bound To Please .... regularly silencing our own opinions and feelings in order to get along. Social etiquette defines how we should behave.

But .... "Why accept adversity? Why be mature? Why surrender with grace the follies of youth?
Why put up with the bullshit?" Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation

The ability of dance to explore a wide range of emotional states has been restricted by its limited definition of what constitutes dance and its preoccupations with physical perfection and beauty.

What effect does this have on the psyche of dancers?

In its honouring of beauty and its denial of human difference, has dance become nothing more than the Prozac of the art forms?

"DV8 .... is a violent reaction to the commercial ideas of nicely tuned bodies
doing nice things to nice tunes" Dance Theatre Journal

DV8's latest production looks at the parallels between dance and social conformity.
Who decides what is socially acceptable behaviour? Who writes the rules? Who sets the steps?

Our fear silences us, but when does breaking the silence become an act of courage .... or just plain madness?

"The reasonable man adapts to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." George Bernard Shaw

Mad, or just off their heads, DV8 dance their way to oblivion.

".... work of tragic stature, terrifying and wonderful, distressing and brilliant" Daily Telegraph

 

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