Скачать или смотреть Arlene Caffrey - Drama Category: Pole Theatre Ireland 2014

My performance from the Pole Theatre Ireland 2014 competition, Drama category! It's a grittier reboot of the act I performed at Alethea Austin's 'Live Dancing Girls' show in Nashville last October. The orginal audio in the video was really bad quality so I had to put the music track on top. You can't hear the live screams of terror that came before the music, which is a shame! ;)

Concept: My act will tell the story of a woman who has just committed murder and the emotions that ensue in the direct aftermath. We are introduced to her seconds after she has done the deed; she stumbles on stage retreating from the crime she has just committed. She turns to reveal her blood-stained charming dress, eyes wild and still clutching the knife and bloodied rags that she has used to try to clean herself. We watch her move through realization, disgust, regret, morbid fascination, rationalization of her actions and finally to acceptance. We watch her transform from a pitiful, panicked girl who wishes to be rid of the blood on her hands, to a blood-lusting, empowered and terrifying woman. We are left with a sense of foreboding that this will surely happen again, and soon...

Many thanks to my Dance Moma Kathleen Doherty for helping me with the choreography and special thanks to Sergia Louise Anderson for her valuable insight and input. Thanks Caroline Storey of Polekix for organizing an amazing competition!

Music: 'She's Lost Control' - Joy Division