DORA FRANKEL
Choreographer, Performer, Educator, Dance Notator, Mentor, Reviewer
Dora Frankel trained at Rambert School of Ballet 1967-71 and later, as choreologist at Benesh International, London. She joined Rambert Company as choreologist, also performing in Cruel Garden chor. Christopher Bruce, among other works. During her 50 year career here and abroad, mainly America and Scandinavia, she has combined choreography and dance and theatre performance with education and outreach work, including most notably, the design and leadership of Angered Gymnasium’s dance programme(s), Gothenburg, Sweden.
Recent Career & Current Works
On her return from Sweden she gained an MA Choreography, Middlesex University and located to Newcastle upon Tyne, where she formed Dora Frankel Dance, before re-visioning it as Fertile Ground, touring contemporary dance company in 2013. She stepped aside in 2018, handing over to Malgorzata Dzierzon and Renaud Wiser and continues an eclectic independent career, which includes reviewing for British Theatre Guide. She creates environmentally and socially focused work and aspires to an open, generous, inspiring experience for performers, audience and participants.
Images George de Haas, Tony Griffiths, Frank Young, Luke Waddington, Bec Hughes.