Women's Work & Other Stories (2009)

Performed at
Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center
University of Maryland, College Park

Born and raised in Kentucky, choreographer Angella Foster explores her kinship with the strong women who shaped the land and the character of her home state with their bare hands. Inspired by her grandma’s stories of growing up the daughter of sharecroppers, Foster captures in Women’s Work the rhythm of daily labor and explores the emotional landscape of an imagined community of women in rural Kentucky. The piece also features an original sound score composed and performed live by University of Maryland School of Music students.