'Embodying Ambiguities: No Bodies Baby'

'Embodying Ambiguities: Intertextual' Plays Within and 'Between Space/time Philosophies and the Performing Body' (2001-2004) was an AHRB funded research project in dance, directed by Professor Valerie Briginshaw and Professor Emilyn Claid. Rita Marcalo was involved as a performer and research assistant in one of the project’s research outputs (the dance work 'No Bodies Baby' choreographed by Emilyn Claid). To find out more about Embodying Ambiguities click here (www.embamb.com)

Book Features

Rita Marcalo currently features in the book 'Performing Nature: Explorations in Ecology and the Arts' (2006) by Gabriella Giannachi and Nigel Stewart. In a chapter entitled 'From Performance Through Narrative to Interconnected Subjectivities', Valerie Briginshaw discusses Marcalo's work as a performer in Emilyn Claid's 'No Bodies Baby'.

'Three Steps on the Ladder While Waiting'

This was a York St. John University commission for Flight Effect Dance Company, which toured the north of England in the spring of 2006.

The work was written about as a blend of “odd characters… with elements from Marcalo’s snappy movement personality”, and Marcalo was considered a “strong purveyor of the dance theatre image” (The Leeds Guide).

'Aemilius Sense': Dance Film Premiere at York City Screen

Aemilius Sense is a Community Dance York commission, premiered on 22nd October 2006. Choreographer Rita Marcalo joined filmmaker Lucy Barker and digital arts company Bright White, to devise a dance for the camera work in collaboration with Community Dance York’s participants. The work explores notions of womanhood, playfulness, friendship, and ghosts of suppressed desires. To view Aemilius Sense click here.

Successful Funding Bid

Instant Dissidence has been awarded a total of £37,000.00 for their forthcoming ‘White Out Conditions’ touring production. The work is being funded by the Arts Council and the Department for Work and Pensions, and its being supported by Yorkshire Dance, York St John University, Ferens Art Gallery, Wakefield Arts Centre, Leeds Met. Studio Theatre, Hull City Council, York City Council, Wakefield District Council and Selby District Council. From August to October 2007 the company will be undertaking a series of residencies in Hull, York, Leeds and Wakefield. The work will tour from October 2007 to June 2008 in Yorkshire, London and Portugal.

Award Shortlisting

Rita Marcalo has been shortlisted for the Essexdance Artist in Industry award. If successful Marcalo will spend three months undertaking a groundbreaking research project looking at the relationship between choreography, movement and epilepsy.