A World of One’s Own: Control / Escape — Shelley Lasica

Control / Escape: A conversation with dancer and choreographer Shelley Lasica How and what do you present to an audience? Where does the line between yourself and your work begin? Tai and Shelley discuss the assumptions about ‘revealing the truth’ in dance and how creating complexity and a kind of ‘unhooked narrative’ that is not linear or logocentric might be a more exciting way of looking at things. We also discuss the idea of playing with ‘the gaze,’ the fraught relationship between needing approval from an audience and making work within a female body.