Several of Susan Marshall & Company’s seminal works are available to license. Companies and dance departments that have re-staged these works include Netherlands Dans Theater, American Repertory Dance Company, Hubbard Street Dance Company, Pacific Northwest Ballet, The Dance Alloy, University of Washington’s Chamber Dance Company and many others.
The following repertory is recommended for licensing. In addition, we offer our collaborative skills intensives that can be customized to your organization’s needs, from a two-hour master class to a two-day workshop.
Licensing organizations have access to resources including:
Performance quality audio;
Lighting and technical information;
Program notes and credits;
Costuming consultation, rentals available for some works;
Archival photos.
Arms (1984)
The genesis of the duet Arms represented a watershed moment for Susan that helped to define later works, in her words, "like poems in terms of their economy, density and brevity." It is a stationary dance consisting of quotidian arm gestures, postures and technically demanding partnering. “It’s not theatrical touch, it’s real touch—unadorned, functional—and I feel that’s very tangible to an audience. I think that’s what makes the work intimate.”
Duration: 5 minutes
Sound Score: Luis Resto
Casting: 2 Dancers; professional or pre-professional level
Restaging Requirements: approximately 25 hours of rehearsal over the course of 1 week. 2 company repetiteurs recommended to teach duet, 1 present for tech/dress.
Previous Licensees: Netherlands Dance Theater, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Dance Alloy, University of Washington-Seattle, Columbia College, University of Wisconsin-Steven's Point, Randolph-Macon College.
Kiss (1987)
Two dancers, suspended from ropes and guided by the laws of physics, swing together and apart in a breathing rhythm until their orbits intersect and are inevitably pulled together. Emphasizing the expressivity of the torso, this aerial duet fuses ballet, skilled partnering and post-modern dance styles. “The miracle of the piece is that it captures in concrete dance terms that almost palpable feeling of swimming in love, of being suspended in eternity." —The Oakland Tribune
Duration: 7 minutes
Sound Score: Arvo Pärt, “Cantus in Memory of Banjamin Britten”
Casting: 2 Dancers; professional level
Restaging Requirements: approximately 40 hours of rehearsal over the course of 2 weeks, 2 company repetiteurs to teach duet, 1 present for tech/dress.
Previous Licensees: Hubbard Street Dance, Pacific Northwest Ballet, University of Washington-Seattle.
STOP (2013)
A central duet from the evening length work Play/Pause references the dance moves and sleek production values of popular music videos. The seductiveness of pop culture and our complex relationship to the media we consume is explored. By stripping away context and introducing abstraction movement becomes the primary element, adding choreographic complexity.
Duration: 3 minutes
Sound Score: David Lang
Casting: 2 Dancers: professional or pre-professional level
Restaging Requirements: 2 repetiteurs recommended, 30 hrs over 1 week
Cloudless (2006)
Eighteen vignettes, each thematically different yet linked choreographically, compose “Cloudless.” According to The New Yorker, “…the grizzled virtues of traditional modern dance—the bare feet, the weightiness, the sincerity—come out looking newborn.”
Duration: Dependent on suite chosen (full work runs 59 minutes)
Sound Score: Designed by Jane Shaw, ranging from Georges Bizet to Philip Glass
Casting: 5 Dancers minimum: professional or pre-professional level
Restaging Requirements: Approximately 8-10 hrs of rehearsal per vignette, 1-2 company repetiteurs to teach choreography, 1 present for tech/dress, all requirements dependent on suite chosen.
Previous Licensees: Ririe-Woodbury Dance Co., Florida State University, University of Washington, University of Wisconsin-Steven’s Point, University of Montana.
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Sound Score: David Lang, “(Increase ‘this was written by hand’)”
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Fields of View (1994)
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Sound Score: Philip Glass, “4th String Quartet”
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