- Susan Marshall
Susan Marshall (born
October 17 ,1958 ) is an American choreographer and dancer. She formed the dance collective Susan Marshall & Company in 1982, working initially with dancersArthur Armijo ,David Dorfman ,Jackie Goodrich , andDavid Landis .Starting at Emanu-El Midtown YM-YWHA and PS 122, Susan Marshall & Company moved to
Dance Theater Workshop in New York City for two- and three-week seasons in 1986 and 1987 respectively, during the second one of which her dance "Kiss" was performed, which remains in repertory with other groups. The company began touring in 1987, and the next yearBrooklyn Academy of Music commissioned "Interior with Seven Figures" for its Next Wave Festival. An association withcomposer Philip Glass began in 1994 when Marshall used his music for a dance "Fields of View", and in 1996 she collaborated with him on his dance-opera "Les Enfants Terribles." Susan Marshall & Company has performed at the Edinburgh International Festival, theSpoleto Festival , Vienna Tanz, Brooklyn Academy of Music, and Marshall has created dances for the Lyon Opera Ballet, the Frankfurt Ballet, the Boston Ballet, and Montreal Danse.In her artistic statement, Marshall states,
:My dances reflect my interest in all kinds of human movement and the way in which much of the information that we share with each other about ourselves in our daily lives is not expressed through words but revealed through subtle gestures and physical communications -- all of which we understand with great speed and emotion. I am fascinated by this world of unacknowledged knowledge that runs parallel to our world of articulated thoughts and actions. It is a world filled with undeniable truths immersed in great mystery...:In making my dances, I often draw directly from movements found in our daily lives: an embrace, a touch, a turn of the head, simple walking and running. This familiar vocabulary has the ability to communicate swiftly and clearly. I am interested in using such movements in their natural form, and not in a stylized way, because I believe that, unadorned, these movements can communicate the depth of our lives.
In 2000, Marshall was the recipient of a MacArthur "Genius" Award.
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External links
* [http://www.susanmarshallandcompany.org/ob/marshall/pages/home.shtml/ Homepage of Susan Marshall & Company]
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