VOW(d): CRATE WOMEN — Catherine Magill

— Visible Older Women (dancing).

Many older women experience a sense of invisibility. Some relish this anonymity, while others feel ignored and devalued. Armed with their humble milk crate pedestals, these women take a VOW – to be a Visible Older Woman (dancing).

VOW(d) brings together nine powerful women from the Performance Improvisation community, to interrogate older women’s experience in the civic realm, the seen and unseen.

Playful and poignant, personal and political, VOW(d) celebrates older women, acknowledging the achievements of great women, and every day, ordinary ‘crate women’, while highlighting the underrepresentation and misrepresentation of all women in an ageist and patriarchal society.

Disguised as herself, she moves through the world, from silent to vocal, invisible to visible. From her trusty crate pedestal, embodying statues of herself, she sees and is seen. From her elevated position she has a clear view. Confident, insightful, ranting, despondent, cheeky, she openly shares her views. Leaving her pedestal, she takes up space – she is singing in the rain, dancing in the streets, claiming space for women who have passed their use by date.

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Choreographer: Catherine Magill