About IMAGOmoves
The dictionary definition of imago reads 'final and perfect stage of insect after all metamorphosis'.
IMAGOmoves is committed to creating dance theatre works that cross disciplines, media and boundaries, to foster synthesis between the artistic languages of movement, visual imagery, text, music and sound. As the name suggests, the work embraces the process of metamorphoses, from the initial germ of an idea to the emergence of the developed work in the presence of an audience. The company’s creative process and performance vocabularies are informed by embodied movement and theatre practices, often merging tightly scored improvisation with choreographic crafting into a seamless whole. The stage or performance space serves as a container for inventive worlds with their own internal logic, metaphorical associations and poetic resonance.
"She is, it could be said, the Lewis Carroll of choreography; creating magical and multi-faceted wonderlands out of intellectually diverse and challenging material...the meaning-bearing capacity of the work as a whole is due to the close interdependence of all elements to create its own reality"
Rachel Duerden, The Dancing Times 2002
Artistic director Yolande Snaith has been a potent and consistently inventive force in the field of dance for over 25 years. Her work has a delicious eccentricity: sumptuous moving paintings inhabited by unpredictable figures and visual surprises. The works resonate with a broad pallet of references, drawing on history, music, visual arts, diverse cultural and human experience. With IMAGOmoves, Snaith brings together an ensemble of performers, composers and designers in a highly collaborative dance theatre process, artfully shaping material to create work that is acutely observed, detailed, thought provoking and deeply engaging.