How many people fake smiles every day and waste their energy by hiding their true emotions? How has irony become such a common tool for coping with uncomfortable feelings? How long can we endure the inner pressure?
In this solo, Frances deals with the way stress and pressure affect her body and tries to keep up appearances. The initial material of this solo was created as part of her vocational dance education – now she has extended her research to “…but no Pressure” because she understood that it’s okay not to be okay. Frances sees dance and art as an important way of communication. For her, it’s not about performing something pretty but rather about making people feel something, even if they cannot put it into words. Inspired by the idea of catharsis and the interdisciplinary methods of dance theatre, she creates emotional and expressive choreographies in which she likes to use not only dance but also props, her voice and body percussion.

Frances-Marlene Prasse first set foot on stage as a child with the junior company of the „Leipziger Tanztheater“. She continued her dance training at the “Tanzzentrale Leipzig“, where she learned teaching methods and choreographic tools. Afterwards, she started to teach and became the dance director of the inclusive “Grüntöne-Ensemble“ in Salzburg.
In 2021, she moved to Berlin to study at the dance academy balance 1, which focuses on forming versatile dancers at a high technical level. There, she discovered her love for Graham technique, and deepened her knowledge of classical ballet, jazz and contemporary dance/floorwork. She will graduate in September 2024. In addition to dance, she loves to act and models for dance photography as she is excited by how a (moving) body in space can compose an image.

[Source: ada-studio.de]

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