Dora Frankel trained at Rambert School of Ballet 1967-71 and later as choreologist at The Benesh Institute. She joined Rambert Company as choreologist, also performing in Cruel Garden 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). 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.
Notable works include Images for Two 1977 - Rambert Choreographic and Design collaboration Jeanetta Cochrane Theatre, London
Angel of the Odd 2010 - dance theatre inspired by four stories by Edgar Allan Poe Gateshead Town Hall
· Trio 2010 - Gateshead Town Hall
On the Darkened Wing 2016 – an investigation into the dark side of fashion, referencing Jewish women working in the ostrich plume industry in South Africa. Music collage Kroke among others The Witham Barnard Castle
Award winning gothic romance screendance Touch the Beast 2019 - inspired by Edgar Allan Poe and visually by Aubrey Beardsley
The Turner Trilogy 2022 a retrospective of the three JMW Turner, climate change and colonialism inspired works, created with composer Peter Coyte
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