Trained to dance in chains, a body forgets how to move once unshackled.

LIBERATING: She Dances (in Chains) is a visceral physical theatre work about discipline, masking and the paradox of agency within constraint. Through chains, masks, movement and multilingual text, the piece moves through the roles a woman is taught to inhabit: daughter, student, friend, citizen, worker, lover, mother and more.

It sketches a world of internalised surveillance and self-regulation, where external command slides into voluntary compliance, social scripts become muscle memory, and performance hardens into habit. With chains, masks and the body as its image field, the work asks: when conduct is measured from within, what might freedom be?

She dances in chains. She chooses to. At least she thinks so.