Sue Schroeder

Background

About Sue Schroeder

Sue A. Schroeder founded Several Dancers Core in 1980 as an innovative company of four dancers performing in schools, museums and lofts in Houston, Texas. Now known as CORE Performance Company, the professional troupe tours internationally, collaborates with innovative choreographers and artists, presents performances and showcases by other artists and connects to the community through dance education, creative instigation and workshops for isolated populations. Creative Collaboration Originally the company’s sole choreographer, Schroeder developed relationships with emerging and world-renowned choreographers, including Ellen Bromberg, Polly Motley, Bill Evans, Joanna Haigood, Tanzcompagnie RUBATO, Beppie Blankert and Alicia Sánchez. These relationships have transformed CORE into an internationally acclaimed company, known for its riveting, passionate and unique work. Recent Choreography As a choreographer, Schroeder artfully integrates the process of the choreographer in relationship to the performing artists, and is committed to collaborating with composers, visual artists, musicians, writers, and artists of other mediums. Schroeder’s recent and memorable works include an evening-length dance version of Handel’s Messiah featuring renowned conductor Antoine Plante and the Mercury Baroque Ensemble, Corazón Abriendo (Heart Opening), a dynamic multi-media cross-cultural collaboration with artists from the United States and Chiapas, Mexico, Spirit of Passion, a multi-media work based on the life of Joan of Arc featuring original sound and film; The Grasp of Unreason, a movement theater performance inspired by the writing of Flannery and commissioned by Georgia College in Milledgeville, Georgia, for the 1994 symposium “The Habit of Art: An Interdisciplinary Celebration of the Legacy of Flannery O’Connor”. Specialties: dance administration, choreography of contemporary dance, dance composition