Angelica

Commissioned by Welsh Independent Dance
2006-08

Winner of Dance Bytes choreographic competition and selected for DanceRoads international tour.

Angelica is a alter ego, an alternative reality created and performed by Deborah Light. Glimpse into Angelica’s mysterious world where logic is disrupted by voices of compulsion. Trapped in this confused reality the fragile layers of Angelica’s character are exposed. The beautiful becomes dangerous as fears and desires take over in this world of dark enchantments.

Angelica is a 25min solo work for theatre which led to the development of a series of site specific, installation, photographic and video projects.

“Angelica is an elevated, exaggerated and magnified self who showed us the duplicity of her anger, fear, fragility and beauty. I was utterly compelled by her journey back and forth between frantic fear, sexual confidence and almost opiate relief... Deborah Light is a fabulous and courageous performer and I would recommend anyone to go and see her. She has the technique to express her choreography while her collaborators, the costume and lighting designers, do just that; they collaborate in laying Angelica’s world at our feet.”

— Alexandra Claire, Theatre in Wales