This is LOVE

This is a project devoted to Celine Dion. A work of absolute devotion to the woman of love. 200 songs and 198 about love. Why love? Love is the root of all. Love totally eclipses questions of good and bad. We want to fill the stage with love. And dance. Two of the biggest most pervasive activities known to humanity. Why specifically Celine Dion? She's the ultimate commercial manifestation of love. She is a product of publicity machines and mega-mogul studio execs strategically being the architects of her career. Under the guise of love. A beautiful marriage of the mainstream and the deep deep human soul. So we dance to Celine. We dance - because we want to and because we have to. We get back to basics in our bedrooms and kitchens. Making dance within the constraints of having day jobs and no space. Bumping into coffee tables and chair legs. Surrounded by comfort and familiarity. Like teenagers we watch our favourite dance genre movies and learn the material and make them a part of our dance. We think about dance on a level where it is rife in society. Beyond the proscenium and into the TV. And like the rest of the world we get big kicks out of putting it on YouTube - so you can see how this performance came about. So that when we re-enter the theatre people have a choice to engage in the project so that the dance they see on the stage is actually much much more than just stage time. It's blogs and it's texts and it's stories and it's pictures. It's coming home from work and dancing to a song because that feeling of falling in love is overflowing so bad it must be danced out and filmed. The performance is inseparable from it's creation. It's not cryptic - it's simple and it's beautiful. It's not afraid to be embarrassed about taking pleasure. Hasn't every one had a glass of wine and danced around in their living room to music they would never admit to owning? Now we are ready to extract these and see what happens when it enters a studio/theatre. It won't fit. It will be weird but it'll be dance - the ultimate dance. A love dance.