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. Age recommendation: 16+ Duration: 50 minutes Price: £12 Languages: Cantonese, English, Mandarin Countries: China, Chile, Poland, UK Show accessibility: None Content warnings: Contains chains, masks, physical restraint, intense movement, swearing, themes of gendered control, self-surveillance, and emotional distress. Cast & Creatives Created, Produced and Performed by Xiaoyao Luo The Cast SHE: Xiaoyao Luo THEM: Kuba Pawełczak & Wenqi Yu Movement Director: Rebeca Pereira Original Music: Wenshan Yu Sound Designer: Lois Qi Lighting Designer: Melody Mengyun Liu Visual Designer: Chaoying Lin Assistant Producer: Inini Xinyi Yin Marketing & Photographer: Ruidi Zhu Film & Videographer: Dana Peiyi Wang More info liberating.zzlz luoxiaoyaoxy