Women and Cypresses situates the dancing women within the imagined framework and a hypothetical storyline devoid of a male presence where women sit atop the fence of gender. Culled from the expanse of an identity where borderlines have blurred, they are the work of their doing. They influence and inspire each other. They have left the oppression of the male presence and table the contents of what it means to stand before the other, as a woman, when the other is only ever a woman.

The choreographer Cai Glover invited his dancers to be inspired by the invigorating aesthetics of Van Gogh's paintings with their apparent movements; their charged and excessive colours engulfed in erratic swirls, the expressivity of what could otherwise be considered a mundane depiction of a landscape.

©Damian Siqueiros