I recently went to see May Contain Food an amazing fully participating musical theatre piece,performed by the brilliant Luca Silvestrini's Protein Dance company. Protein uses a blend of original choreography, text, humour and music to entertain and provoke audiences.
For me it was fascinating and visually pleasing, being sat as if in a bizarre restaurant with the performers acting as our virtual waiters kept us, the audience a fully participating part of the performance.
Luca and the Protein performers took us on an incredible journey exploring every aspect of food and eating you could possibly think of through the brilliant contemporary dance moves and classical voices.
'we know food is not just for keeping us going, but instead a more complex system of habits and patterns intimately connected to who we are and how we feel.It has been fascinating to explore this subject and discover how intricate, and often disturbed, our relationship to eating can be;
and how easily food becomes a substitute for something we miss, have lost or need.' Luca Silvestrini.
Couldn't put it better myself.
