Jacky Lansley and Grace Nicol

R-AGE is a conversation through dance, image and performance between a ‘young’ woman and an ‘older’ woman. The aim is to explore the power of women working together across generations and examine questions about women and age, including those frustrating generalisations which frame women as never being the right age.

Drawing on their working relationship and friendship over the last four years, Jacky Lansley and Grace Nicol collaborated on devising a cross-disciplinary score, which engages the audience in a series of challenging, humorous and radical questions about women, power, art and age.

Jacky and Grace considered their artistic dialogue as highly topical in a polarised Brexit Britain, in which conservative driven austerity has divided generations. Through performance, they explored ways of finding a common and intergenerational language to contribute to positive collective action around these issues, within the arts and beyond.

Jacky is proud to be an original founder member of Chisenhale Dance Space and its predecessor X6 Dance Space. Grace has recently become a Chisenhale Dance Member after longstanding relationships with other members.