BLUE WHITENESS RHAPSODY 1985-1987
Blue Whiteness Rhapsody explores the ambiguities within our images of feminine ideals, from “every woman’s dream of unadulterated beauty” to “ the mean low down blues of domestic labor.
The image of a pure, white Greek caryatid is stripped down to a woman in her corset, scrubbing the floor. Like the deconstruction of the sections of a Russian doll, costume metaphors are removed layer by layer. At the core, the real and vibrant woman is exposed, with all her scars and imperfections. Blue Whiteness Rhapsody seeks to reveal the neuroses behind female obsessions and the striving for perfection, masked behind an idealized cliché.
One of those pieces that many young women created during the mid 80’s in one form or another. Both a personal statement and a catharsis for like- minded young women of my time.
Blue Whiteness Rhapsody was a solo performance, funded by the Arts Council Of England. The piece was featured in The Dance Umbrella Festival, 1985, and toured throughout the UK to both theater and Art Gallery Spaces. This piece was also performed in Vienna, Copenhagen and the former Yugoslavia.
PRESS:
“Snaith’s is a finely paced and multi-faceted work, abrupt punctuation giving way to pleasant flow, sharpened by wit and appropriately chaste in color and accompaniment. Hers is the most distinct choreographic voice, one which knows exactly how to channel a point of view into a cogent act”
New statesman
“Razor-sharp intelligence welded to a highly original movement vocabulary”
Time Out
“This young woman created such magic at Premises that I can hardly describe the feelings her performance gave me – her work is so original, so visually stunning and mentally affecting that everyone who sees her must want to see more”
Naomi Koston, Daily Express
“Snaith infuses her idiosyncratic creations with a flair for design and unusual visual images”
Time Out