Missing, Tara Brandel. Photograph by Emma Jervis
What role does place play in your work?
Generally, 'place' plays a big role in my work but for this particular solo it is much more about time looking at global parallels between the 1930s and now as the rise of the far right eradicate queer and trans rights and liberties.
Who or what are your biggest influences as an artist?
I have always been very influenced by gender expressions, experiences and by burlesque, drag, and cabaret especially within queer culture. In Missing, I use drag and burlesque to explore the pivotal queer women that have been erased from history that I am exploring in this solo show- especially Bronislava Nijinska and Margaret Skinnider.
How do you approach collaboration in your practice?
My most recent show Change has enormous amounts of collaboration between the dancers, scientists and creative collaborators. But for this solo show Missing, I am really enjoying being in the studio by myself, and the kind of focus that can emerge through that solo isolation.
Can you describe what you’re working on during your time in the studio?
I am working on a new interdisciplinary dance theatre solo called Missing, which looks at the pivotal queer women who have been erased from history such as seminal choreographer Bronislava Nijinska (sister of Nijinsky), and Glasgow born Margaret Skinnider who led a battalion of men in the 1916 Uprising in Dublin.
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