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29 May 2015

Stupid Women

at Yorkshire Dance

£9 (concessions £7)

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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.

“A blessed relief to see this… brilliant – very real, moving, entertaining, honest…
loved it… I am so happy right now.”
Audience from work in progress at Juncture Festival

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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.

Annie Lloyd, Compass Live Art, says, “Compass Live Art is very happy to be collaborating with Yorkshire Dance to develop Stupid Women. We are big fans of Wendy Houstoun and great admirers of Yorkshire Dance’s work in championing contemporary dance practice in Yorkshire. Compass and Yorkshire Dance share the ambition of widening the appreciation of contemporary, experimental work and creating the conditions in which it thrives.”
Wendy Houston
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