LOL (lots of love)

Protein Dance

Fri 10 Feb

Protein won the Best Independent Company Award at the Critics’ Circle National Dance Awards in London and was nominated for four arts industry awards in 2011 including Outstanding Achievement in Dance.

Known for its witty and profound dance theatre, Luca Silvestrini’s award-winning Protein has struck dance gold with this timely production – back by popular demand, following performances across the UK in 2011.

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Logging on to our lives online, LOL (lots of love) delves into the world of electronic communication to uncover the evolutionary shift that social networking and the internet are having upon the way we live and love.

Against a video wall of screen-gazing individuals, six cyber soulmates stylishly nail the language of life online in their quest for romance. Talking and dancing at speed, they make hilarious straight-to-the-audience confessions, and dance the physical equivalent of poking and tweeting. With video animation by Rachel Davies and original music by Andy Pink, these ingredients conjure a razor-sharp commentary on our Facebook society, and an affecting rendering of human need.

Reviews

beautifully detailed and sharply satirical

The Times

Protein’s sharpest and funniest work so far

The Stage

This may be Silvestrini's best piece yet

Time Out

his best creation to date

Judith Mackrell, Guardian

his strongest work to date

Luke Jennings, Observer

he’s right on the zeitgeist – and on peak form

Metro

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