Susan Marshall 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.
Career
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 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. An association with composerPhilip 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 for their work together. The company's work has been commissioned by Brooklyn Academy of Music, 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, 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.
Selected Works for Susan Marshall & Company
Arms
Kiss
Les Enfants Terribles, a dance/opera created in collaboration with composer Philip Glass
The Most Dangerous Room in the House
Cloudless, a collection of 18 dances
Sawdust Palace, a collection of 20 dances
Adamantine
Play/Pause
Chromatic
Two Person Operating System
Selected Other Works
Asphalt Orchestra, ’s avant-garde marching band
Mikhail Baryshnikov: For You
The Dancer, three solos choreographed for a film conceived and directed by Judy Dennis, based on the iconic dancer created by Jules Feiffer
Ballet Hispanico: Reverence, Solo
singing in the dead of night, music composed by David Lang, Julia Wolfe and Michael Gordon for the music ensemble Eighth Blackbird, Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall
Book of Longing, a Philip Glass song cycle set to the poetry of Leonard Cohen, Rose Theater, Lincoln Center Festival
Groupe de Récherche Chorégraphique de l'Opéra de Paris : Gifts
CoDanceCo: Ward
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.
