Next month Ill be presenting my first choreographic work since 2006! Im glad to be back in a dance studio, and am looking forward to exploring more opportunities to work with dancers in the future. Dog Woman; Sleeping on her owner’s coat is a ten minute contemporary dance piece inspired by Portuguese and British visual artist Dame Paula Rego Dog Woman (1994). Rego explains; The dog woman series (of pastels depicting women posturing and behaving like dogs) is about the love I had for my husband. It just happened. I first of all got this wonderful model called Lila Nunes. She looked after my husband when he was dying. She used to help him paint. Then she took up nursing. Then she could sit for me in her spare time.... She is really myself. I don’t like doing self-portraits but she’s like a self-portrait. The dog woman was her. I don’t know why, I just said to her: ‘Now crouch there, and growl’. And she did.... So she became the dog woman, the first dog woman, where she’s trapped, but she can bite.* *Interview with Paula Rego. Interview by Benjamin Eastham and Helen Graham. The White Review Feb. 2011. Print.
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