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Five guests of high calibre and low pay attempt the impossible and quite probably fail in this live directed improvisation.

Stupid Women:
TC Howard, Rachel Krische, Lucy Suggate, Grace Surman & Sophie Unwin
directed live by Wendy Houstoun

Combining idiocy with skill, anarchy with meaning and costumes with music, Wendy Houstoun presents Stupid Women.

Initially performed as a work-in-progress at Yorkshire Dance’s Juncture 2014 festival, and a tribute to the late and great Nigel Charnock whose piece Stupid Men irritated and annoyed most audiences who saw it, Stupid Women, with its all-new (well, mostly new) cast, hopes to achieve something similar.

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Wendy Houstoun has worked as an independent and collaborative theatre artist since 1980. Her work hovers around the edges of movement and language. Over time she has developed solo work as a way of processing both formal investigations and life events and her pieces articulate responses to contemporary life with a serious playfulness.

Wendy was awarded the 2013 TMA Award for Achievement in Dance for 50 Acts and the Critics’ Circle National Dance Award for Outstanding Female Performance (Modern) for Pact with Pointlessness, inspired by the death of choreographer, Nigel Charnock.

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This new presentation of Stupid Women has been brought to Leeds through a collaboration between Compass Live Art and Yorkshire Dance.