DIMITERRE – When the Skin Comes Off derived from the Latin turn of phrase “to let go”, is an embodied solo performance in dance and physical theatre that journeys through the psychological terrain of detachment. Using trauma-informed embodiment, Butoh, aerial acrobatics, and a hybrid movement vocabulary, the work explores depersonalization, derealization, and the fragile process of returning to oneself. Rather than treating dissociation as absence, it presents it as a state of shifting emotional, somatic, and identity expression.
 
At its symbolic core is the peacock, reimagined not as spectacle, but as a paradox of protection and revelation. Its display becomes both shield and offering, mirroring the tension between external projection and internal truth. Here, self-expression is shown not as a polished outcome, but as a vulnerable, unfolding negotiation between concealment and emergence. The body becomes a site of rupture, resistance, and reconstruction.

Age Restriction: ALL

PARKING, ACCESSIBILITY, REFRESHMENTS, RULES
ARE REFRESHMENTS AVAILABLE AT VENUE? YES

PROHIBITED: NO CAMERAS OR RECORDING DEVICES ARE ALLOWED – ONLY AUTHORISED PERSONNEL

WHAT PARKING FACILITIES ARE PROVIDED AT THE VENUE:

• Safe parking available via the Station Street Entrance – off Jorissen Street after 17h00.
• For daytime shows, all visitors should park at the visitors parking on Yale Road at the Anglo – Dome.
• For visitors on foot, please use the Sutton Close Entrance, to scan your ID and make your way to the Wits Theatre
• For high schools coming to attend, all schools should report to Wits University an hour before the show, park buses at the visitors’ parking spaces by the Anglo - Dome and may make their way to the Wits Theatre.
• For Uber drop off, please use Sutton Close Entrance, to scan your ID and make your way to the Wits Theatre
• All visitors and guests PLEASE HAVE YOUR VALID DRIVER’S LICENSE OR I.D WHEN VISITING THE CAMPUS

WHAT DISABLED FACILITIES ARE AVAILABLE AT THE VENUE: WHEELCHIR RAMP & ELEVATOR