Emilyn Claid: Untitled

Fri 21 Feb 2025 8:00PM
  • Fri 21 Feb 2025
    8:00PM
    Aldridge Studio

In this performance emilyn welcomes the fears of endings, teasing with what it means to bow out, the irony of living in an old body and what’s real and what’s imagined. Combining movement and theatre, staged choreography, and playful, improvised interactions, emilyn faces queering and ageing with dark humour, undercut with moments of pathos. As she transforms between hunter and creature, therapist and diva, cruising and crumbling, a collage of personal stories and self-directed choreography emerges, interwoven with devised material created collaboratively with Heidi Rustgaard, Florence Peake and Joseph Mercier.

 

Additional Information 

 

Running Time: 80mins

Program

Emilyn Claid has a fifty year career as a performer, stretching back to the 1960s when she was a ballet dancer with the National Ballet of Canada and the 1970s when she was co-founder of experimental collective X6 Dance Space in London, a pioneering organisation for New Dance. In the 1980s she was artistic director of Extemporary Dance Theatre and in the 1990s choreographed for companies such as Phoenix and CandoCo. Working as an independent dance artist emilyn made and performed a series of iconic solo works in which she found an authentic voice as a lesbian artist. Emilyn is also an emeritus professor and a Gestalt psychotherapist and has recently published FALLING Through Dance and Life, (Bloomsbury 2021), a book about dance performance that re-thinks Western culture’s physical, metaphorical and psychological relationship to gravity.

Credits

Performed by: Emilyn Claid

Choreographer: Emilyn Claid in collaboration with Heidi Rustgaard, Florence Peake & Joseph Mercier

Guest artists: Aiden Taylor & Josh Haigh

Designer: Shanti Freed

Lighting: Rachel Shipp

Music: Planningtorock, Prokofiev and Jimmy Webb

Headdress: Shanti Freed & Antonio Psaila

Dramaturgy: Martin Hargreaves

Producer: Sarah Trist & Emilyn Claid

Production Manager: Rachel Shipp

Marketing and social media consultant: Upright Fools

 

 

Emilyn Claid UNTITLED, is commissioned by The Place with support from Siobhan Davies Dance. Funded by Arts Council England.

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