Sweetshop Revolution

BeautifuL is a new dance theatre work encompassing movement and text, exploring love and sexuality from the point of view of women; what is fantasised about, desired and permissible within the complex web of social structures, expectations and cultural history.

Five extraordinary female dancers lead us through their own experience of sexuality and love and this is contrasted with an exploration of the history of women’s sexuality over the last three hundred years.

We’re living in a time where people feel they can be gender fluid or polyamorous, perhaps as a freedom from identity and stereo-type. This piece along with looking at gender, will also be celebrating the solidarity of woman - taking femininity to a more truthful place, past the gloss of media spin and pressure to conform.

BeautifuL is a doorway into a dialogue about how women and men are experiencing relationships, sexuality and the body right now. And at the heart of it lies a question, how do we love and how has it changed?