Society’s attitudes towards age and aging, particularly within the context of dance and movement, are being explored in a two-day festival in Leeds next month.
Yorkshire Dance’s Ageless Festival, which returns for its third edition, poses the question – is there a point at which it becomes inappropriate or unacceptable to dance? The answer is an unequivocal no as the two-day festival challenges all the usual stereotypes with a diverse programme featuring a wide range of local, national and international artists, film-makers and speakers who are investigating and reimagining age and the ageing process through dance.
They include a double bill of new work from Susan Kempster, Mother, an intergenerational duet co-commissioned by Yorkshire Dance and Sadlers Well that looks at how the dynamic of a mature woman and a young man can avoid the narrative of mother and son. Christine Thynne, an emerging artist in her 80s, shares her new work Mechanisms. Robertshaw says: “She defies stereotypes of older women through the sheer physicality of her show which sees her perform within a precarious structure on stage.
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