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'''Susan Marshall''' (born October 17, 1958) is an American choreographer and dancer. She is the Artistic Director and Choreographer of Susan Marshall & Company which she formed sometime between 1982 and 1983, working initially with dancers [[Arthur Armijo]], David Dorfman, [[Jackie Goodrich]], and David Landis. Marshall has created over thirty dance works throughout her many years working with the company. She is known for incorporating everyday abstract movements, repetition, and variety into her pieces. She encourages her performers to develop a level of intimacy between each other, and between their audiences. She wants the audience to feel an emotional connection to the dancers. Marshall currently holds the role of the director of the Program in Dance at Princeton University's Lewis Center for the Arts, which she assumed in 2009.<ref>Jowitt, Deborah. "Susan Marshall Gets Intimate; the veteran choregrapher brings Frame Dances and Adamantine to the [[Baryshnikov Arts Center]]." The Village Voice (New York) 8 June 2011, Print.</ref>
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'''Susan Marshall''' (born October 17, 1958) is an American choreographer and the Artistic Director of Susan Marshall & Company. She has held the position of Director of the Program in Dance at Princeton University since 2009.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://arts.princeton.edu/people/profiles/sm9/|title = Susan Marshall}}</ref>


==Career==
Starting at Emanu-El Midtown YM-YWHA and PS 122, Susan Marshall & Company moved to [[Dance Theater Workshop]] in New York City for two- and three-week seasons in 1986 and 1987 respectively, during the second one of which her dance ''Kiss'' was performed, which remains in repertory with other groups. ''Kiss'' is a duet in which a couple is suspended from above the stage via ropes or cables and harnesses. In a dance review for the New York Times (July 19, 1993) Anna Kisselgoff describes the performance as "a duet for a couple whose harness-equipped choreography sends them into space with centrifugal force and finally into a locked aerial embrace."<ref>Kisselgoff, Anna. "Review/ Dance; Susan Marshall Puts Entr'actes Into the Act." New York Times 19 July 1993: EBSCOhost. Web. 28 Sept. 2011.</ref>
===Susan Marshall & Company===
Susan Marshall & Company was formed in 1985 in New York City. Marshall worked initially with dancers Arthur Armijo, Andrew Boynton, Kathy Casey, David Dorfman, Jackie Goodrich, and Eileen Thomas, among others. Early venues included Emanu-El Midtown YM-YWHA and PS 122. The company then performed at [[Dance Theater Workshop]] in New York City for three seasons, from 1985 to 1987. The company began touring in 1987, and the next year [[Brooklyn Academy of Music]] commissioned ''Interior with Seven Figures'' for its Next Wave Festival, Marshall's first evening-length work.
The company began touring in 1987, and the next year [[Brooklyn Academy of Music]] commissioned ''Interior with Seven Figures'' for its Next Wave Festival. This would be Marshall's first evening-length work. An association with [[composer]] [[Philip Glass]] began in 1994 when Marshall used his music for a dance ''Fields of View'', and in 1996 she collaborated with him on his dance-opera ''Les Enfants Terribles.'' ''Fields of View'' used closeups of photos by Weegee, who took tabloid photographs of New York City crime scenes between the 1940s and 1950s. This was one of the first times Marshall used artistic media in her choreography.<ref name=autogenerated1>Marshall, Susan. Current Biography. 1999. Biography Reference Bank. Web. 17 Oct. 2011.</ref>


The company has collaborated with Marshall on the creation and performance of works including ''Cloudless'', ''Frame Dances'', ''Play/Pause'', ''Adamantine'', ''The Most Dangerous Room in the House'', ''Spectators at an Event'', ''Fields of View'', ''Arms'', ''Interior with Seven Figures'', and ''Kiss''. Featured dancers in these and other works included Christopher Adams, Mark DeChiazza, Allison Easter, Heidi Michel Fokine, Kristen Hollinsworth, Krista Langberg, Luke Miller, Petra Van Noort, Joe Poulson, Andre Shoals, and Darrin Wright, among others.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sumac.org/new-page-94/ |title=Timeline — SUSAN MARSHALL & COMPANY |website=www.sumac.org |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180830074030/http://www.sumac.org/new-page-94/ |archive-date=2018-08-30}}</ref>
Susan Marshall & Company has performed at the Edinburgh International Festival, the [[Spoleto Festival]], Vienna Tanz, and the Brooklyn Academy of Music. In addition to her work with her company, Marshall has also created dances for the Lyon Opera Ballet, the Frankfurt Ballet, the Boston Ballet, and Montreal Danse. One of her most popular pieces is entitled "Cloudless" and was described by Hilary Ostlere in "The Financial Times (London, England)" as "... a mysterious piece that has little to do with its title for there are cloud in it, mostly in the form of Deborah Farre's framed projections. The series of 18 swiftly succeeding episodes - each thematically different yet linked choreographically - has been worked out in collaboration with the dancers themselves, who also move the props around. Each piece - Marshall calls them poems - is as different as its music, which ranges from Georges Bizet to Philip Glass." <ref>Ostlere,Hilary. "Susan Marshall & Company THE CRITICS." Financial Times (London, England) 13 Mar. 2006, Europe ed. 1, Arts sec.: 8. Print.</ref>


An association with [[composer]] [[Philip Glass]] began in 1994 with ''Fields of View'', and in 1996 she collaborated with him on his dance-opera ''Les Enfants Terribles.''Her association with composer [[David Lang (composer)|David Lang]] began with ''The Most Dangerous Room in the House'' in 1998.
Marshall used a sense of nostalgia in her work, having been inspired by European spiegeltents of the early 1900s. She transformed her performance space into a tent-like [[theatre in the round]] atmosphere. Once the audience enters the theatre, they are automatically transported into the world of Marshall's piece. She wastes no time setting the tone and mood of the performance.<ref>Kaufman,Sarah. "Susan Marshall's 'Sawdust Palace,' Where Surreal Dreams of Love Unfold." The Washington Post 11 Apr. 2008, regional ed., Style sec.: C05. Print.</ref>


Marshall, her artistic partners, and her company members have received 10 New York Dance and Performance Awards (BESSIES) for their work together.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.dancetheyard.org/susan-marshall/|title = Susan Marshall}}</ref> The company's work has been commissioned by Brooklyn Academy of Music (seven seasons), Peakperformances@Montclair, Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, Dance Theater Workshop, Krannert Center for the Arts, Walker Center for the Arts, On the Boards, Hanscher Auditorium at University of Iowa among others. The company has performed at the Edinburgh International Festival, International Festival of Arts and Ideas in New Haven, the Festival International de Nouvelle Danse in Montreal, Spoleto Festival, the Los Angeles Festival, Vienna Tanz, SpringDanse (The Netherlands), and NY City Center Fall for Dance Festival. In addition to her work with her company, Marshall has also created dances for the Lyon Opera Ballet, the Frankfurt Ballet, the Boston Ballet, and Montreal Danse.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sumac.org/team-1/ |title=About — SUSAN MARSHALL & COMPANY |website=www.sumac.org |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180816015600/http://www.sumac.org/team-1/ |archive-date=2018-08-16}}</ref>
In her artistic statement, Marshall states,


===Selected Works for Susan Marshall & Company===
:My dances reflect my interest in all kinds of human movement and the way in which much of the information that we share with each other about ourselves in our daily lives is not expressed through words but revealed through subtle gestures and physical communications -- all of which we understand with great speed and emotion. I am fascinated by this world of unacknowledged knowledge that runs parallel to our world of articulated thoughts and actions. It is a world filled with undeniable truths immersed in great mystery...
* Arms (1984)
:In making my dances, I often draw directly from movements found in our daily lives: an embrace, a touch, a turn of the head, simple walking and running. This familiar vocabulary has the ability to communicate swiftly and clearly. I am interested in using such movements in their natural form, and not in a stylized way, because I believe that, unadorned, these movements can communicate the depth of our lives.
* Kiss (1987)
* Les Enfants Terribles (1996), a dance/opera created in collaboration with composer Philip Glass
* The Most Dangerous Room in the House (1998)
* Cloudless (2006), a collection of 18 dances
* Sawdust Palace (2007), a collection of 20 dances
* Adamantine (2009)
* Play/Pause (2013)
* Chromatic (2016)
* Two Person Operating System (2016)


===Selected Other Works===
In 1988 Marshall was an inaugural recipient of the American Choreographer Awards, given by the National Corporate Fund for Dance, and she also won a Brandeis University Creative Arts Award.<ref name=autogenerated1 />
* Asphalt Orchestra (2012, 2009, 2010), (choreography) [https://bangonacan.org/asphalt_orchestra Bang-on-a-Can]’s avant-garde marching band
* Mikhail Baryshnikov: ''For You'' (2010)
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In 2000, Marshall was the recipient of a MacArthur [[Genius award|"Genius" Award]].<ref name="Fellows00">{{cite web|url = http://www.macfound.org/site/c.lkLXJ8MQKrH/b.1142727/k.2A89/Fellows_List__July_2000.htm|title = MacArthur Fellows July 2000|author = The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation|accessdate = 2007-06-02|deadurl = yes|archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20070929091016/http://www.macfound.org/site/c.lkLXJ8MQKrH/b.1142727/k.2A89/Fellows_List__July_2000.htm|archivedate = 2007-09-29|df = }}</ref>
* ''The Dancer'' (2010), three solos choreographed for a film conceived and directed by Judy Dennis, based on the iconic dancer created by Jules Feiffer
* Ballet Hispanico: ''Reverence'' (2008), ''Solo'' (1993)
* ''singing in the dead of night'' (2008), (choreographer, stage direction) music composed by David Lang, Julia Wolfe and Michael Gordon for the music ensemble Eighth Blackbird, Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall
* ''Book of Longing'' (2007), a Philip Glass song cycle set to the poetry of Leonard Cohen, Rose Theater, Lincoln Center Festival
* Juilliard School: ''Working Memory'' (2004), ''Name by Name'' (2007)
* Montreal Danse: ''Lines from Memory'' (1995)
* Lyon Opera Ballet: ''Central Figure'' (1994)
* Frankfurt Ballet: ''In Medias Res'' (1989)
* Boston Ballet: ''Overture'' (1987)
* Groupe de Récherche Chorégraphique de l'Opéra de Paris (GRCOP): ''Gifts'' (1986)
* CoDanceCo: ''Ward'' (1983)

==Personal life==
Marshall is the daughter of feminist writer and activist Beverly R. Jones, co-author of The Florida Paper, and behavioral scientist and activist Marshall B. Jones. She was raised in Florida and Pennsylvania. She lives with her husband, Christopher Renino, and son, Nicholas Renino.

==Awards and honors==
* 2013: Reflection Grant from Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
* 2004, 2005, 2007, 2012, 2013 National Dance Project/New England Foundation for the Arts
* 2006: New York Dance and Performance Award (BESSIE) for Outstanding Choreographic Achievement for ''Cloudless''<ref>https://newyorklivearts.org/artist/susan-marshall/</ref>
* 2002: New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship
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* 2000: MacArthur [[Genius award|"Genius" Award]]<ref name="Fellows00">{{cite web|url = http://www.macfound.org/site/c.lkLXJ8MQKrH/b.1142727/k.2A89/Fellows_List__July_2000.htm|title = MacArthur Fellows July 2000|author = The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation|access-date = 2007-06-02|url-status = dead|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070929091016/http://www.macfound.org/site/c.lkLXJ8MQKrH/b.1142727/k.2A89/Fellows_List__July_2000.htm|archive-date = 2007-09-29}}</ref>
* 1997: New York Dance and Performance Award (BESSIE) for Outstanding Choreographic Achievement for ''Les Enfants Terribles'' <ref>https://newyorklivearts.org/artist/susan-marshall/</ref>
* 1995: Dance Magazine Award<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.dancemagazine.com/dance-magazine-awards-2306859301.html|title = Dance Magazine Awards|date = 16 October 2015}}</ref>
* 1993: Brandeis University Creative Arts Citation <ref>{{Cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iW7_z4vIf5MC&q=brandeis+university+creative+arts+citation+susan+marshall&pg=PA253 | title=Fifty Contemporary Choreographers| isbn=9781136828324| last1=Bremser| first1=Martha| last2=Sanders| first2=Lorna| date=2011-03-15| publisher=Taylor & Francis}}</ref>
* 1990: Guggenheim Fellowship <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/susan-marshall/|title=John Simon Guggenheim Foundation &#124; Susan Marshall}}</ref>
* 1986: American Choreographer Award <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://source.wustl.edu/2008/03/acclaimed-choreographer-susan-marshall-brings-cloudless-to-edison/|title=Acclaimed choreographer Susan Marshall brings 'Cloudless' to Edison - the Source - Washington University in St. Louis|date=19 March 2008}}</ref>
* 1985: New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship <ref>{{Cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iW7_z4vIf5MC&q=brandeis+university+creative+arts+citation+susan+marshall&pg=PA253 | title=Fifty Contemporary Choreographers| isbn=9781136828324| last1=Bremser| first1=Martha| last2=Sanders| first2=Lorna| date=2011-03-15| publisher=Taylor & Francis}}</ref>
* 1985-1992: National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships <ref>{{Cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iW7_z4vIf5MC&q=brandeis+university+creative+arts+citation+susan+marshall&pg=PA253 | title=Fifty Contemporary Choreographers| isbn=9781136828324| last1=Bremser| first1=Martha| last2=Sanders| first2=Lorna| date=2011-03-15| publisher=Taylor & Francis}}</ref>
* 1998 – 2014 National Endowment for the Arts Grants<ref>{{Cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iW7_z4vIf5MC&q=brandeis+university+creative+arts+citation+susan+marshall&pg=PA253 | title=Fifty Contemporary Choreographers| isbn=9781136828324| last1=Bremser| first1=Martha| last2=Sanders| first2=Lorna| date=2011-03-15| publisher=Taylor & Francis}}</ref>
* 1985: New York Dance and Performance Award (BESSIE) for Outstanding Choreographic Achievement for premier season at Dance Theater Workshop <ref>https://newyorklivearts.org/artist/susan-marshall/</ref>


==References==
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Susan Marshall (born October 17, 1958) is an American choreographer and the Artistic Director of Susan Marshall & Company. She has held the position of Director of the Program in Dance at Princeton University since 2009.[1]

Career

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Susan Marshall & Company

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Susan Marshall & Company was formed in 1985 in New York City. Marshall worked initially with dancers Arthur Armijo, Andrew Boynton, Kathy Casey, David Dorfman, Jackie Goodrich, and Eileen Thomas, among others. Early venues included Emanu-El Midtown YM-YWHA and PS 122. The company then performed at Dance Theater Workshop in New York City for three seasons, from 1985 to 1987. The company began touring in 1987, and the next year Brooklyn Academy of Music commissioned Interior with Seven Figures for its Next Wave Festival, Marshall's first evening-length work.

The company has collaborated with Marshall on the creation and performance of works including Cloudless, Frame Dances, Play/Pause, Adamantine, The Most Dangerous Room in the House, Spectators at an Event, Fields of View, Arms, Interior with Seven Figures, and Kiss. Featured dancers in these and other works included Christopher Adams, Mark DeChiazza, Allison Easter, Heidi Michel Fokine, Kristen Hollinsworth, Krista Langberg, Luke Miller, Petra Van Noort, Joe Poulson, Andre Shoals, and Darrin Wright, among others.[2]

An association with composer Philip Glass began in 1994 with Fields of View, and in 1996 she collaborated with him on his dance-opera Les Enfants Terribles.Her association with composer David Lang began with The Most Dangerous Room in the House in 1998.

Marshall, her artistic partners, and her company members have received 10 New York Dance and Performance Awards (BESSIES) for their work together.[3] The company's work has been commissioned by Brooklyn Academy of Music (seven seasons), Peakperformances@Montclair, Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, Dance Theater Workshop, Krannert Center for the Arts, Walker Center for the Arts, On the Boards, Hanscher Auditorium at University of Iowa among others. The company has performed at the Edinburgh International Festival, International Festival of Arts and Ideas in New Haven, the Festival International de Nouvelle Danse in Montreal, Spoleto Festival, the Los Angeles Festival, Vienna Tanz, SpringDanse (The Netherlands), and NY City Center Fall for Dance Festival. In addition to her work with her company, Marshall has also created dances for the Lyon Opera Ballet, the Frankfurt Ballet, the Boston Ballet, and Montreal Danse.[4]

Selected Works for Susan Marshall & Company

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  • Arms (1984)
  • Kiss (1987)
  • Les Enfants Terribles (1996), a dance/opera created in collaboration with composer Philip Glass
  • The Most Dangerous Room in the House (1998)
  • Cloudless (2006), a collection of 18 dances
  • Sawdust Palace (2007), a collection of 20 dances
  • Adamantine (2009)
  • Play/Pause (2013)
  • Chromatic (2016)
  • Two Person Operating System (2016)

Selected Other Works

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  • Asphalt Orchestra (2012, 2009, 2010), (choreography) Bang-on-a-Can’s avant-garde marching band
  • Mikhail Baryshnikov: For You (2010)
  • The Dancer (2010), three solos choreographed for a film conceived and directed by Judy Dennis, based on the iconic dancer created by Jules Feiffer
  • Ballet Hispanico: Reverence (2008), Solo (1993)
  • singing in the dead of night (2008), (choreographer, stage direction) music composed by David Lang, Julia Wolfe and Michael Gordon for the music ensemble Eighth Blackbird, Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall
  • Book of Longing (2007), a Philip Glass song cycle set to the poetry of Leonard Cohen, Rose Theater, Lincoln Center Festival
  • Juilliard School: Working Memory (2004), Name by Name (2007)
  • Montreal Danse: Lines from Memory (1995)
  • Lyon Opera Ballet: Central Figure (1994)
  • Frankfurt Ballet: In Medias Res (1989)
  • Boston Ballet: Overture (1987)
  • Groupe de Récherche Chorégraphique de l'Opéra de Paris (GRCOP): Gifts (1986)
  • CoDanceCo: Ward (1983)

Personal life

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Marshall is the daughter of feminist writer and activist Beverly R. Jones, co-author of The Florida Paper, and behavioral scientist and activist Marshall B. Jones. She was raised in Florida and Pennsylvania. She lives with her husband, Christopher Renino, and son, Nicholas Renino.

Awards and honors

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  • 2013: Reflection Grant from Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
  • 2004, 2005, 2007, 2012, 2013 National Dance Project/New England Foundation for the Arts
  • 2006: New York Dance and Performance Award (BESSIE) for Outstanding Choreographic Achievement for Cloudless[5]
  • 2002: New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship
  • 2000: MacArthur "Genius" Award[6]
  • 1997: New York Dance and Performance Award (BESSIE) for Outstanding Choreographic Achievement for Les Enfants Terribles [7]
  • 1995: Dance Magazine Award[8]
  • 1993: Brandeis University Creative Arts Citation [9]
  • 1990: Guggenheim Fellowship [10]
  • 1986: American Choreographer Award [11]
  • 1985: New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship [12]
  • 1985-1992: National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships [13]
  • 1998 – 2014 National Endowment for the Arts Grants[14]
  • 1985: New York Dance and Performance Award (BESSIE) for Outstanding Choreographic Achievement for premier season at Dance Theater Workshop [15]

References

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  1. ^ "Susan Marshall".
  2. ^ "Timeline — SUSAN MARSHALL & COMPANY". www.sumac.org. Archived from the original on 2018-08-30.
  3. ^ "Susan Marshall".
  4. ^ "About — SUSAN MARSHALL & COMPANY". www.sumac.org. Archived from the original on 2018-08-16.
  5. ^ https://newyorklivearts.org/artist/susan-marshall/
  6. ^ The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. "MacArthur Fellows July 2000". Archived from the original on 2007-09-29. Retrieved 2007-06-02.
  7. ^ https://newyorklivearts.org/artist/susan-marshall/
  8. ^ "Dance Magazine Awards". 16 October 2015.
  9. ^ Bremser, Martha; Sanders, Lorna (2011-03-15). Fifty Contemporary Choreographers. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 9781136828324.
  10. ^ "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Susan Marshall".
  11. ^ "Acclaimed choreographer Susan Marshall brings 'Cloudless' to Edison - the Source - Washington University in St. Louis". 19 March 2008.
  12. ^ Bremser, Martha; Sanders, Lorna (2011-03-15). Fifty Contemporary Choreographers. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 9781136828324.
  13. ^ Bremser, Martha; Sanders, Lorna (2011-03-15). Fifty Contemporary Choreographers. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 9781136828324.
  14. ^ Bremser, Martha; Sanders, Lorna (2011-03-15). Fifty Contemporary Choreographers. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 9781136828324.
  15. ^ https://newyorklivearts.org/artist/susan-marshall/
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