Lincolnshire Dance

On Friday evening, Lincoln Performing Arts Centre (LPAC) welcomed Protein Dance to the stage with their performance of ‘LOL – Lots of Love’ for the opening night of their 2012 tour.

Choreographed by the highly acclaimed co-founder and Artistic Director Luca Silvestrini, LOL delves into today’s online society and explores how it is both separated and linked to everyday life and relationships. Performed with a backdrop of film and digital art on 3 screens, the audience experienced far more than another night in front of the computer.

6 hugely talented dancers eloquently portrayed tales of Facebook relationships, the dramas attached to online dating and how real life relationships correspond to those in the digital world. LOL also touched upon the ways that online and text language have now become both a recognisable discourse and accepted form of communication in the modern world.

LOL represents ‘lots of love’ ‘lots of luck’ or ‘lack of love’ and ‘lack of love’ – all of which were demonstrated in the piece. LOL is most commonly associated with ‘Laughing out Loud’ – which truly encompassed my feelings about the performance. LOL was often funny but also touching and poignant. I found it to be symbolic of the tendencies which have become ingrained within us all in this modern age and encompassed the concept that everybody is talking but not many are listening.

Protein continues to tour LOL across the country until May. You can find out more about Protein and their LOL tour dates on their website http://proteindance.co.uk/productions.php.

For details about LPAC theatre and to find out what's coming up, please visit http://www.lpac.co.uk/

Words by Rebecca Houghton