Dance pieces by female only choreographers performed at University of Salford
Monday 12 March 2018
A SERIES of dance pieces created by female only choreographers are being performed at the University of Salford.
The Dance With US event takes place in the University’s New Adelphi Theatre on Thursday March 15, featuring rare performances of works by female choreographers from Britain and the US.
Lisa Cullen, who leads the University’s BA Dance programme, said: “We’ve set this up to make people ask why, when there are so many women working in the dance industry, are so many of the high ranking choreographer posts taken by men.”
Maria Caruso, Artistic Director of Bodiography and Chair of Dance at La Roche College in Pittsburgh, has been given permission to perform Martha Graham’s seminal 1930 piece Lamentation, which is studied by dance students around the world but rarely performed outside Graham’s New York company.
Bodiography will also be performing Caruso’s own new work Excerpts Of Doors And Windows, featuring music by Sigur Ros and composers Ludovico Einaudi and Kevin Keller, while the choreographer will perform a solo extract from the same piece.
Mocking social etiquette rules
Alumni company Coalesce Dance Theatre will perform their latest work Drive, while Meraki Collective, also made up of University of Salford graduates, who were recently awarded a residency at HOME Manchester, will perform their piece Only Speak When Spoken To, which uses humour to mock the rules of social etiquette.
Barnsley born Keira Martin, whose dance career has taken her to Bermuda, Costa Rica and Brazil, will be performing her solo production Here Comes Trouble, a rigorous and personal investigation into womanhood drawing on cultural influences from Yorkshire, Ireland and Jamaica.
We thought it was time to celebrate the many talented female choreographers, some of whom sadly don’t always get the recognition they so richly deserve.
Lisa Cullen said: “We thought it was time to celebrate the many talented female choreographers, some of whom sadly don’t always get the recognition they so richly deserve. We hope lovers of dance, both male and female, will come along to appreciate these unique and innovative pieces.”
The event starts in the foyer of the New Adelphi Building at 6:15pm with The Body Of Us, performed by the University’s dance students and directed and choreographed by artist in residence Bridget Fiske, before theatre doors open at 6:45pm.
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