About Imago Moves
IMAGOmoves is a contemporary dance theatre company committed to creating works that cross disciplines, media and boundaries, to create synthesis between the artistic languages of movement, visual imagery, 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 upon the stage. The company’s productions evoke magical, theatrical worlds, dreamlike images, inventive designs and skilful, creative performers to make shows that are hypnotic, witty, poetic, passionate and beautiful.
"An individual blend of theatre and dance in which, arguably, no single element is supreme, and she is unusual among her contemporaries in her ability to manipulate and control richly theatrical elements, inventive movement material and a compelling narrative through-line"
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 20 years. Her work has a delicious eccentricity: sumptuous moving paintings inhabited by unpredictable characters and visual surprises. The works resonate with a broad pallet of references, drawing on history, music, visual arts and human experience, combined with choreography, objects, set design, costumes, text, music and sound design. 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 entertaining.