42+PEOPLE: Softer Skills

The project 42+PEOPLE and the premiere Softer Skills combines all aspects of contemporary dance with an intergenerational dialogue featuring dancers aged 42+. The second performance features the Softer Skills choreography by Edan Gorlicki.

Softer Skills is an intimate yet powerful performance following the journey of three women, all rich with decades of experience both on and off stage, who vulnerably share perspectives of life through the knowledge and skills they gathered throughout their dance careers. They are performers, teachers, colleagues, mothers, family members and artistic queens in their own right. Live and up close, they bravely expose their perspective of what it means to be a dancer. They proudly show off that age can be just a number and that capabilities of the body can be endless.

What does dancing teach us? What do we obtain in our core ideologies from dedicating our lives, bodies, time, attention and care to this art form? What do we have to share? And would we do it all over again?