Keynes College is delighted to host ‘Coming of Age’: an exhibition by the Moving Memory Dance Theatre Company. The exhibition features photographs of company members and their work captured over the years by Matt Wilson, and will be on display in the first floor Keynes Teaching Foyer from 11 May to 22 June.
Moving Memory Dance Theatre Company is an innovative company that offers workshop and performance opportunities for older women. Participants have the opportunity to try out new dance-theatre based skills and make high quality performance projects alongside professional artists. Celebrating life-long creativity, the company challenges views of being an ‘old’ woman, and offers older women a presence in the world of performance where they are rarely offered the opportunity to participate, let alone valued or applauded. Their work considers the funny side of things, the stuff of life, and in order to reach as diverse an audience as possible, they perform both in traditional venues, as well as in public spaces, such as the streets.
The core company, Moving Memory is a company of women aged between 53 and 83, who have been working and performing together for the last six years, touring all over the South East. The company’s strong concern with the representation of women in society stimulates in the work a unique wry humour reflecting the company’s life experiences, the work often startling and surprising audiences. The company have a strong interest in exploring the creative use of digital technologies in choreographing and presenting performance. Work to date has been funded by Arts Council England, Kent County Council, University of Kent, and through host/venue fees. The company will be touring their new show, Beyond the Marigolds, in autumn 2016.