Susana B Williams has been bringing her Choreographers’ Showcases to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe for 15 years. Her company, Dance-Forms, will have managed 72 such events by the time the doors open at the Emerald Theatre on 15 August having produced Showcases from Chile to Croatia, Greece to Guatemala, Monaco to Mexico.
I asked her how she got the idea.
In 1993, attending the 7th Saitama International Choreographers’ Competition in Saitama, Japan as one of five finalist choreographers winning prizes, I realized, noticing the number of excellent dance works left out of the finals, the importance of creating a professional organization with the defined mission of propelling the art form of choreography forward.