Motherland

Thursday 1st November 2012
Motherland
Vincent Dance Theatre
Birmingham Hippodrome
Directed by Charlottle Vincent

I did not really know what to expect from this piece before going to see it. I've never heard of Vincent Dance Theatre and I haven't seen any other work by Charlotte Vincent.

After watching Motherland, I feel I have some much food for thought. There seemed to be so many symbolic meanings in the piece that I could relate to because we have talked about them in either Placing Practise in Context or Dance Analysis.

Motherland to me, was very hard hitting, raw and truthful.

I made some quite in depth notes during the performance which take a lot of explaining! Here are some of the ideas that I took away from the piece.

• Gender
• Age difference
• Unity
• Strength
• Naivety
• Male gaze
• Humour
• Traditional stereotypes
• Challenging stereotypes
• Nature
• Fertility
• Sexuality
• Repetition
• Frustrations
• Blood
• Roles
• Single Parenthood
• Apposing styles of music (Classical and Rock).
• Maturity
• Modern Society