You Don't Want to Help Me - a solo by Celine Smith

 
Feeling angry at the whole world, being desperate because it's not the way it should be, craving for it to change, withering in self pity...
 
 
A woman roams on her island, letting 'Hungry spirits' eat her mind slowly and take over inside. She goes out of her territory to get a baby-prey that she brings back to enjoy. But hungry spirits make her crave for more and more and blindfold her when there is no more to crave for.
'You dont' want to help me' is a solo dance-theatre performance fuelled with hormones and feeding vicious circles of despair. It creates a poetic representation of the pleasure of being in states of craving and despair, and proposes to reflect on the way these behaviours function.
 


The performer explores what happens if one lets the 'hungry spirits' out, and takes them one step further to see what they are really about. Through dance and movement she gives a shape to inner primal drives.
Through the medium of contemporary theatre, Body-Mind Centering, Japanese Butoh dance, and unique soundscapes, recorded in different parts of the world, the performer explores the inside out of the human psyche.
 

Devised and performed by Celine Smith

Sound-scape mixed live by Dimitri Paranyushkin; "Drone" composed by Matt Lord, track "Saltwater" by Phonophani; chants, animal and human sounds recorded by Celine Smith.

Performance schedule:
- 8 March 2005, 8 pm, Dartington College of Arts, (Premiere)
- 24 June 2005, 3 pm, Presence theatre festival, Dartington College of Arts
- 8 July 2005, 7.30 pm, Theatre Do 2 Festival, Barbican Theatre, Plymouth

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