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love, deceit & 81 questions

A love of subtle deceit choreographed by John Utans
DEFENCE(less) choreographed by Michael Whaites

a love of subtle deceit choreographed by John Utans

The piece began with notions of playing with words and sentences. Little white lies, said with a wink of the eye and a shifted tone of phrase. Fingers crossed behind one's back. Knowing a secret and sharing it, but never admitting to knowing anything. Individual movements became words and the words formed sentences. All saying something, but never quite sounding the same.

The movement phrases are manipulated in a multitude of ways. Forward and backward, upside down and back to front, spliced together and taken apart, facing one direction and then another. Performed by a solo dancer, then as a group, constantly seen in one place and then in another, and even another...

DEFENCE(less) Choreographed by Michael Whaites

From 81 questions comes DEFENCE(less) a collage of sifted ideas of the performers' responses.

What are your images of love and romance?
What does romance involve?
Do we all have surreptitious desires for darkness creeping into our thoughts?
Here we explore infinite possibilities of choice…
Call it love, call it deceit, call it honest answers.
Collages of shifting sensory perceptions.

Straddling the fence between improvisation and set choreography, DEFENCE(less) aims its arrow at love, fear and one hundred and something questions.