After the big success at Romaeuropa Festival 2003 with "The cost of Living", DV8 are back to Romaeuropa with "Just for show". This work is about showing and showing off in a world where looking good has become more essential than being good; where faking it has become synonymous with making it, where beautiful lies hide grubby truths.
Using virtual projections, visual illusion and word play, DV8’s international cast explores the importance of appearance and image on our lives. When reality has a different script from the one in our dreams, who shouldn’t make up stories to fool themselves?

Lloyds Newson's latest work is an assault on consumer culture - the scramble for style, beauty and success upon which the western world is currently hellbent. Just for Show also happens to be the glossiest production DV8 have ever put on stage. The irony is presumably intended. Newson has always had an eye for designers and performers and this time he's gone shopping for some of the best. Unusually, he requires his cast to flaunt their skills to the limit, for dance in this show functions as the ultimate metaphor for the cult of the body beautiful. Though Newson famously disapproves of the narcissistic tendencies of his profession, entertainingly for the audience he allows this production a string of show-off routines.
(Judith Mackrell,The Guardian).

Just for Show is a co-production between the Accademia Filarmonica Romana and Romaeuropa.

Dates:

23 - 26 November 2005

Venue:    Rome

Teatro Olimpico, Piazza Gentile da Fabriano 17

Information:

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