APRIL 14 - MAY 4, 2008Application Deadline: January 18, 2008SUSAN MARSHALL, choreographer
* For more information on choreographer Susan Marshall, please visit www.susanmarshallandcompany.org RESIDENCY STATEMENTThe residency will be an opportunity for Master and Associate Artists to share their choreographic processes with one another, so as to both better understand what they already do well and to expand their craft by learning from the choreographic approaches and perspectives of the other participants. Choreographers and physical theater directors are invited to apply. Daily, full-group sessions will consist of presentations, discussions and practical workshops designed to allow participating artists to discover new tools for creative collaboration between performers and directors and for generating, developing and evaluating movement materials. This aspect of the residency will be complemented by daily, open-ended creative time for the individual participating artists. Associate Artists may come prepared with projects they are currently working on or may, instead, begin new work during the residency. Not least of all, there will also be time for physical and spiritual rejuvenation at the beach. APPLICATION REQUIREMENTSThe residency is open to choreographers and physical theater directors. Participants should be prepared to join group workshops as both choreographers/directors and performers. Please submit two work samples on DVD or VHS. (If you are a performer in your work, please indicate how to identify yourself in the video. Please note that performer virtuosity is not essential and is less important than being open and willing to collaborate as a performer.) Please also submit the following: a brief biography, a list of five artists in any media whose work you admire and why, a brief description of the project you will be bringing if you have one and/or a description of the ways in which you would like to deepen or expand your craft, a brief statement of why you would like to participate in this residency, three references and, if you are not a performer in your chosen work samples, either a third work sample which shows you as a performer or a description of your abilities to collaborate as a mover/actor. |
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Susan Marshall (Artistic Director/Choreographer of Susan Marshall & Company) has created over 30 dance works in collaboration with the dancers of Susan Marshall & Company, including Cloudless, One and Only You, The Most Dangerous Room in the House, Spectators at an Event, Fields of View, Arms, Interior with Seven Figures, and Kiss. Marshall has also created dances for the Lyon Opera Ballet, Frankfurt Ballet, Boston Ballet and Montreal Danse. Her signature aerial duet, Kiss, is in the current repertory of Hubbard Street Dance Chicago and Pacific Northwest Ballet. Marshall recently provided the stage direction for “Book of Longing,” Philip Glass’ newest work, which is based on the poetry of Leonard Cohen. In Marshall’s first collaboration with Philip Glass she directed and choreographed Les Enfants Terribles, a dance/opera. Marshall has also directed a movie musical for RIPFest and choreographed dances in operas staged for the Los Angeles Music Center and the New York City Opera. A 2000 recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, Marshall has received a Dance Magazine Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Brandeis University Creative Arts Citation, an American Choreographer Award and two NYSCA Fellowships. She is the recipient of three New York Dance and Performance Awards (BESSIES) for Outstanding Choreographic Achievement, the first in 1985, following the company’s premiere concert at Dance Theater Workshop, the second in 1997, for her collaboration with Philip Glass on Les Enfants Terribles, and the third in 2006 for Cloudless. |