Fitzgerald & Stapleton are a dance theatre company founded and directed by Irish artists Emma Fitzgerald and Áine Stapleton. Their work is complex and challenging – displaying an unrelenting and personal intimacy which refuses to be contained within a single narrative or identity. The relationship between language and experience is at the heart of Fitzgerald & Stapleton’s choreographic and performance techniques and for every production they create the duo write a text of performance directions known as a score. They will create their next production ‘The Smell of Want’ in Autumn 2011 as a co-commission between Abrons Arts Centre New York and Culture Ireland‘s Imagine Ireland festival. Their 2010 Chocolate Factory Theatre New York commissioned show ‘The Work The Work’ was described by the New York Times as “A strange and strong enough experience to suggest that the power of art is in its capacity to puzzle rather than to please”. The company is continuously accessing new audiences through their use of various media – they recently created a choreography for radio “In My Father’s Name” available to download – http://www.rte.ie/digitalradio/choice/index.html , and a web-based collaborative choreography with four Irish women ranging in age from eight to sixty-three “MINE” (2010) – http://choreograph.net/editorials/choreography-mine. Their quartet “Starvin” is taught on the MA Contemporary Dance syllabus of the University of Illinois.
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