MDI Artist Highlights: Rowena Gander
Channel: Together
Date: 08/02/2022

MDI Artist Highlights is a mini-series focusing on the artists and creators that use the Merseyside Dance Initiative space. The series has been created as a way to truly celebrate the talent and expertise that we have around the building on a daily basis, and we hope you enjoy!

The first of this series focuses on Rowena Gander; a Liverpool based performer, choreographer and instructor. Her work is experimental and thought provoking, and her themes are explored through the medium of contemporary pole dance fusion.

Rowena is currently working on her first full length solo show, Barely Visible, with director Elinor Randle. The piece is an empowering physical solo performance that brings focus to common issues that queer women face, including sexualisation, (fe)male gaze and what it really feels like to live in the shadows. Incorporating the use of a 100-kilo vertical pole, acclaimed dance theatre artist, Rowena Gander, explores control and visibility in this moving and powerful semi-autobiographical performance.

TW: Sexual audio content

Tickets:
https://www.unitytheatreliverpool.co.uk/whats-on/barely-visible/
https://www.edgehill.ac.uk/events/2022/03/15/barely-visible/
https://squarechapel.co.uk/shows/barely-visible/

Artists website:
https://www.rowenagander.com/

Filmed and edited by Genni Debney.
Original sound score by Noel Jones.