Motherland

2012, 75 mins

Welcome to Generation X – women born late 60’s and 70’s, hungry for choice and change, swallowing second wave feminism like the sweet, sweet promise of freedom it appeared to be. Welcome to 2012 where surgically enhanced women are throwing feminism back up like a bitter sweet pill, tied up in knots, still earning less, still not in power and still hitting the glass ceiling with an audible thud.

Motherland is a female focused, inter-generational work involving children, young, mid-career and mature performers and will be devised through a series of interventions, critical debates and choreographic residencies involving the general public in venues across the UK in 2011/12. This new middle scale production explores the myth of ‘having it all’ and asks – as women have we been sold an impossible dream?

Motherland is commissioned by Yorkshire Dance, Brighton Dome and Festival, South East Dance, Corn Exchange Newbury and The Point in Eastleigh. Motherland will tour autumn 2012.

Full tour dates coming soon

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