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FRAME DANCES (2008)
Frame Dances is a new work by Susan Marshall that investigates her fascination with movement-based art. Straddling dance and visual art, Frame Dances unveils dancers in confined spaces placed within small frames. Marshall combines video and live performance to expose and theatricalize the mechanics of live video, creating a metaphoric and fantastical world about scale and simulacrum. Audiences become part of the work as they move freely through the space, making choices about how they view the various pieces. Composer Peter Whitehead has created a series of layered scores for this installation, which he will perform live.
Choreography: Susan Marshall in collaboration with The Company
Dancers: Kristen Hollinsworth, Luke H. Miller, Petra van Noort, Joseph Poulson, Darrin Michael Wright
Commissioning credits:
Frame Dances is commissioned by Peak Performances @ Montclair with additional commissioning and residency support by The Music Theater Group.
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Sawdust Palace (2007)
Sawdust Palace is perhaps the first dance ever choreographed specifically for a Spiegeltent. Made up of a series of dances designed to be performed in-the-round, Sawdust Palace is drawn from the travails and serendipitous moments of everyday life. In honor of the rich history of the Spiegeltent for which it was created, Marshall incorporates elements of burlesque, cabaret, and vaudeville to create an evening of outrageous and touching work.
The 20 acts “ranging from live piano numbers to chicken-plucking, gave us both the superficial glamour of vaudeville showgirls and the emotional subtext apparent in her best work for the stage.”
- Dance Magazine
Choreography: Susan Marshall in collaboration with The Company
Lighting Design: Mark Stanley
Set and Decor Design: Susan Zeeman Rogers
Costumes: Kasia Walicka Maimone
Sound Design: Jane Shaw
Length: 80 minutes
Dancers: Kristen Hollinsworth, Luke H. Miller, Petra van Noort, Joseph Poulson, Darrin Michael Wright
Pianist: Stephen Gosling
World Premiere: The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College, July 6, 2007
Commissioning credits:
Sawdust Palace is jointly commissioned by the Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College and the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center at Maryland.
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Cloudless (2006)
Cloudless was developed in celebration of the company’s 20th anniversary. The work is an evening-length collection of 18 solos, duets, and small group pieces. With these dances, Marshall has revisited many of the concerns and structures that framed her early work. In 1984, she choreographed Arms, a five-minute stationary duet that premiered the following year at DTW and continues to stand the test of time. Most recently, Marshall has created full length, large-scale works. As Marshall prepared to celebrate her 20th anniversary with a return to DTW, the ongoing, enthusiastic response to Arms has reignited her interest in making dances that wed familiar movement to formal structures, resulting in potent interpersonal narratives. Cloudless comprises self-contained pieces, including works that are pure dance, theatrical, and comedic. These short-form narratives are integrated seamlessly with explorations into lighting, set, video, and prop design that will be part and parcel of these short narratives.
As each dance within the collection has its own focus, a variety of designers have contributed to shape the inquiry. Collaborative designers include lighting designer Mark Stanley, set and video designer Roger Hanna, visual artist Debby Farre and sound designer Jane Shaw.
Choreography: Susan Marshall in collaboration with The Company
Lighting Design: Mark Stanley
Set Design & Projections: Roger Hanna
Costumes: Kasia Walicka Maimone
Visual artist: Deborah Farre
Sound Design: Jane Shaw
Length: 75 minutes
Dancers: Kristen Hollinsworth, Luke H. Miller, Petra van Noort, Joseph Poulson, Darrin Michael Wright
World Premiere: The Alexander Kasser Theater, Montclair State University, Wednesday, February 22, 2006
New York Premiere: Dance Theater Workshop, Wednesday, March 8, 2006
Commissioning credits:
Cloudless is jointly commissioned as part of Susan Marshall & Company’s 20th Anniversary by Montclair State University: Office of Arts and Cultural Programming and Dance Theater Workshop. The company also received commissioning support from Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival and development support from Dance Advance, an artistic initiative in Philadelphia funded by The Pew Charitable Trusts and administered by The University of the Arts.
Susan Marshall & Company gratefully acknowledges receiving generous support for the development of Cloudless by:
Altria Group, Inc., Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Bossak/Heilbron Charitable Foundation, Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, Harkness Foundation for Dance, Lila Acheson Wallace Theater Fund (Established in The New York Community Trust by the founders of The Reader’s Digest Association), O.P. and W.E. Edwards Foundation
National Endowment for the Arts
New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency,
Commissioner’s Club
Peter & Helen Haje
Luis & Colleen Resto
Alice & Stuart Coleman
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Excerpts from Interior with Seven Figures (1988)
Music: Luis
Resto
Lighting Design: Mitchell
Bogard
Costumes: Eileen
Thomas
Excerpted Length: 5 - 9 minutes (original full length: 50 minutes)
Premiere: 1988
Commissioned by Brooklyn Academy of Music
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Arms (1984)
This early, five-minute work for two dancers remains one of Marshall's signature dances.
Music: Luis Resto
Lighting Design: Michell Bogard
Length: 5 minutes
Original Dancers: Susan Marshall and Arthur Armijo, Lauren Dong and Donald Moulton
Premiere: 1984,
Performance Space 122
Arms adapted for television,
"Alive From Off Center", 1989
"... a small masterpiece." --
Village Voice
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Kiss (1987)
Kiss is a lyrical, seven-minute work for two dancers.
Music: Arvo
Pärt (Cantus in memory of Benjamin Britten)
Lighting Design: Mitchell
Bogard
Harnesses and Rigging Design: John
Redman
Length: 7
minutes
Original Dancers: Original Dancers: Kathy Casey/Eileen Thomas and Arthur Armijo/Guillermo Resto
Premiere: 1987,
New York's Dance Theater Workshop
Commissioned by Dance
Theater Workshop
"The
miracle of the piece is that it captures in concrete dance terms the almost
palpable feeling of swimming in love, of being suspended in eternity..."
--Oakland
Tribune
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