Playground

Chisato Shemesh, the dancer who danced out of her professional life into a playground.

This work will look at the conflicting thoughts and feelings that one has as a mother and as a professional working woman.  In dance gear, Chisato will be wrapped up and contained in the playground both with crepe paper, a festive alternative and bandages, a less glamourous option.

She will be wrapped up feigning a native American tied to a tree, by another woman.  Woman are so often the judges of themselves.  She will dance a dance of joy and liberation, and be tied to the roundabout with bandages.  Framed by her own discomfort.  She will swing for joy and then be trapped by an upside down baby’s swing on top of her head.

Chisato will also draw, windows and doors on the tarmac in the park, as if there for her to disappear through.

The video will be topped and tailed with Chisato picking up lego that leads her to the park, like a Hansel and Gretal figure, with a constant movement of ‘a picking up endlessly’ Mum.  She will then leave the lego behind like breadcrumbs to indicate that maybe children will follow.