Artists' Fellowship - 2002
Choreography
Artist Statement:
In my dances, I combine gestures, touches, and movements from everyday life with highly athletic dancing to create abstract narratives. My dances trace the shifts that occur in the interior states of the figures in each dance and in the relations between those figures. As I attempt to make unique movement vocabularies for each of my dances, they often resemble each other in their intricate structures, sensual partnering, and sense of dramatic through-line.
More about the Artist:
Susan Marshall is the Artistic Director of Susan Marshall & Company. Founded in 1982, the company has performed over 30 works choreographed and often danced by Marshall including One and Only You, Arms, Interior with Seven Figures, and The Most Dangerous Room in the House. In 1996 Marshall collaborated with composer Philip Glass to create the dance/opera Les Enfants Terribles. Marshall has also created dances for the Frankfurt Ballet, Montreal Danse, the Lyon Opera Ballet, and the Boston Ballet, among others.
"Marshall knows how to cut deep into a small part of an emotional dilemma. Anna Kisselgoff wrote for the New York Times: “She offers a cross-section, slicing into the heart of a problem."
Marshall is a recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship in 2000, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the American Choreographer Award, and five National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships as well as three BESSIES for Outstanding Choreographic Achievement.
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