WENDY HOUSTOUN
| Nationality: | British |
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Plays by Wendy Houstoun
Desert Island Dances |
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
| Company: | - | |||||
| 1st Published: | - | ISBN/ASIN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Piece | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||||
| Notes: | devised by Wendy Houstoun in collaboration with John Avery | |||||
| Synopsis: | Desert Island Dances concerns Houstoun's own relationship to dance and what elements of it she holds precious. Often very beautiful, this piece is in part a reflection on the nature of beauty or at least how beauty is perceived in the world of classical dance. Beginning by pointing a video recorder at the audience and immediately challenging her relationship with them, Houstoun deconstructs the arc of a performance, its necessary peaks and troughs, and the nature of her conversation with the audience. It is a personal and revealing work that exposes her sensitive relationship to dance and subtly reveals her vulnerabilities. This work would sit happily in the context of either dance or theatre programmes. | |||||
