Choreography by Susan Marshall in collaboration with The Company
Music: David Lang
Lighting Design: Mark Stanley
Scenic Design: Douglas Stein
Costumes: Kasia Walicka Maimone
Length: 58 minutes
Original Dancers: Mark DeChiazza, Kristen Hollinsworth, Krista Langberg, Omar Rahim, Marlon Barrios Solano, Eileen Thomas, Guest Artist Lisa Kron and 75 inflatable dolls

Premiere: October 1999 -- Hancher Auditorium, University of Iowa

Commissioned by University of Iowa, National Dance Project, The Joyce Theater, University of Illinois and University of Nebraska.

"It was an evening of often wild, unexpected juxtapositions...as Susan Marshall & Company bent, stretched & ultimately transcended modern dance."
-- Omaha World Herald

"What an amazing, almost overwhelming work it was... The end of the work left us in a state of shock, a shock that had crept up on us gradually, periodically relieved by Marshall's tremendous sense of humor. This was truly an incredible work for the millennium."
-- Helen Chadima, Cedar Rapids Gazette

The Most Dangerous Room in the House (1998)
Presented in three acts without intermission, this strongly physical work utilizes a suspenseful and cinematic style in its design and feel. Examining the excavated inner life of a woman, the dance offers up fragments and images from her layered memories, thoughts and fears. It explores our natural desire to control the uncontrollable and to protect ourselves, and those closest to us, from forces we actively seek to dodge. Moments of pure dance frequently invade the dance-theater domain, accompanied by David Lang's driving and powerful music, performed by Bang on a Can All-Stars.

Choreography by Susan Marshall in collaboration with The Company
Music: David Lang
Text: Christopher Renino
Lighting Design: Mark Stanley
Scenic Design: Doug Stein & Zhanna Gurvich
Costumes: Kasia Walicka Maimone
Length: 78 minutes
Original Dancers: Mark DeChiazza, John Heginbotham, Kristen Hollinsworth, Krista Langberg, Omar Rahim, Marlon Barrios Solano, Eileen Thomas and guest artist Norma Fire

Premiere: April 1998, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH

Commissioned by Brooklyn Academy of Music, Dartmouth College and Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival

"Throughout this piece, Marshall captures the eternally contradictory nature of our desires ... a notable achievement, profoundly and wonderfully disturbing because looking at it is like looking into a mirror."
-- Tobi Tobias, New York Magazine

Les Enfants Terribles (The Children of the Game) (1996)
Susan Marshall and the dancers of Susan Marshall & Company undertook a special collaboration in 1996 when composer Philip Glass invited Marshall to direct and choreograph the newest work in his Cocteau trilogy, Les Enfants Terribles. The dance/opera that resulted received tremendous praise from critics and audiences during its European tour in 1996 and its appearances at the Spoleto Festival, USA and the Next Wave Festival at the Brooklyn Academy of Music 1997.

A Dance Opera Based on the Work by Jean Cocteau
Adaptation by Philip Glass and Susan Marshall
Music and Libretto by Philip Glass
Direction and Choreography by Susan Marshall
Set Design by Douglas Stein
Costume Design by Kasia Walicka Maimone
Lighting Design by Robert Wierzel
Premiere: 1996, Zug, Switzerland

Produced by Jedediah Wheeler/International Production Associates

"I have seen the future of dance opera and it works.... Groundbreaking... The whole, directed with fast-paced confidence by Ms. Marshall, succeeds sensationally on its own terms... Inspired creators and admirable dancers."
-- Anna Kisselgoff, The New York Times

"The work of three artists (Glass, Marshall and Cocteau) at the top of their form."
-- Michael Walsh, Time Magazine

"Spoleto fans, the magic is back. I do not know how you could ask for anything more."
-- Carol Furtwangler, The Post and Courier, Charleston

"Beautiful, thoughtful, audacious, brainy, spectacular. It looks and sounds like nothing you've ever seen before."
-- Robert Jones, The Post and Courier, Charleston

Spectators at an Event (1994)
This project took place in New York, Austin, Minneapolis, Iowa City, Hanover NH, and Tempe AZ. At each site, Marshall and the company worked hands-on with thirty local volunteers, many of them unfamiliar with dance, over an intense week of rehearsals, culminating in a 30-minute performance. Spectators at an Event was inspired by news journalist Weegee's photographs, which were incorporated in the production, as was original video by Christopher Kondek.

Photos: Weegee -- Arthur Feelig
Video: Christopher Kondek
Music: Gorecki, Second String Quartet -- Quasi Una Fantasi, Opus 64
Lighting Design: Mark Stanley
Scenic Design: Sara Lambert
Costumes: Kasia Walicka Maimone
Original Dancers: Andrew Boynton, Mark DeChiazza, Allison Easter, Krista Langberg, Heidi Michele Fokine, Andre Shoals, Eileen Thomas, Scot Willingham
Length: 35 minutes
Premiere: 1994, University of Texas, Austin

Commissioned by Brooklyn Academy of Music, Northrop Auditorium, Hancher Auditorium, On the Boards, & Full Circle Dance

"One of the several masterly achievements of this haunted work is that it's often hard to tell the pros from the walk-ons; this deftly constructed ambiguity says a lot about life."
-- New York Magazine

Walter's Finest Hours (1993)
Marshall created her first theater work, Walter's Finest Hours, at Downtown Art, an alternative theater in New York City in 1993. This work, which featured a script by Marshall and score by composer Pauline Oliveros, garnered significant press attention for Marshall's skills as a director and writer.

Choreography and Direction: Susan Marshall
Music: Pauline Oliveros
Lighting Design: Paul Clay
Scenic Design: Roger Hanna
Costumes: Kasia Walicka Maimone
Length: 76 minutes
Original Dancers: Branislav Tomich, Eileen Thomas, Heidi Michel, David Neumann

Premiere: 1993, The Kitchen, NYC

Commissioned by Downtown Art Company

"What is a revelation is Ms. Marshall's gifts as a writer and director. Walter's Finest Hours is a first purely theatrical effort but it has the confidence and sensitivity of long practice... superb dancers... set to music by Pauline Oliveros that fits the play like a silk glove... but the honors of the evening go to Ms. Marshall, who builds inexorably to a sudden, haunting, end."
-- The New York Times

Contenders (1990)
Choreography: Susan Marshall
Music: Pauline Oliveros
Lighting Design: Mitchell Bogard
Scenic Design: Tom Kamm
Costumes: Lynne Steincamp
Length: 55 minutes
Original Dancers: Arthur Armijo, Andrew Boynton, Kathy Casey, David Dorfman, Jackie Goodrich, Jeff Lepore, Susan Marshall and Eileen Thomas. In New York, with John Dayger and Ronnie Favors.

Premiere: 1990, Brooklyn Academy of Music

Contenders was adapted for television, "Alive From Off Center", 1991