Emilyn Claid: Untitled at The Lowry
Creative Tourist
Taking place in The Lowry‘s Aldridge Studio, Emilyn Claid’s intimate and dazzling performance blends movement and theatre to explore ageing, acceptance and transformation.
Reflective, witty and moving, Claid presents a performance as an ageing, queer dancer. Combining staged choreography with playful, improvised interactions, Claid moves between a collage of personal experiences and devised material (created collaboratively with Heidi Rustgaard, Florence Peake and Joseph Mercier) to present a show that explores age and queerness with honesty, dark humour and moments of pathos.
Emilyn Claid has enjoyed 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. 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.
If you like the sound of Untitled, do take a look at our round-up of Contemporary Dance at The Lowry.
