CRAVING COMPETITION
Inspired by the economic research paper titled "Do Women Shy Away From Competition, Do Men Compete Too Much?", the work "Craving Competition" is an appeal to all women to explore and embrace their competitiveness. Gender norms and lack of self-confidence often hold women back from pursuing opportunities in work and life. The piece weaves its way between confidence, self-doubts, exhaustion and vigor and aims to encourage women to not shy away from competition but to push through any pain and struggle.
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Music:
Sergei Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor, Op.18 (Movement 1: Moderato)
Dancers:
Eugenia Zinovieva, Celeste Kling, Natalia Andrade, Alex Jones, Fiona Kirkland, Audrey Lukacz, Solana McGonagle, Juliana Godlewski
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Performances:
September 8, 2023 at International Dance Festival in St Augustine, FL at Flagler College
May 20-22, 2022 at RIWCP in Providence, RI
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Review from Dance Informa: (by Kathryn Boland)
" (...) Closing out the show was Theresa Jimmerson’s Craving Competition, a jaw-droppingly athletic exploration of how women compete (or don’t compete) with each other in the workplace. (...) The dancers remained grounded and incredibly strong while so unified and supportive of one another. They retained that duality while also moving through thrilling movement: muscular, quick and technically demanding. I thought about the multiplicity of possibilities in the lives of women: which they crave, which they reach for, which they achieve, which they’re blocked from achieving. It’s nothing like simple, and the layered quality of this piece aligned with that truth. The ending was an image that will stick in my mind for some time; the dancers together fell to the ground from standing, landing in a synchronous “THUD” as the lights cut out. Meanings could certainly be deduced, but what struck me most was the raw physical power of the moment."
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