A 72-year-old with close-cropped silver hair, tattoos and a leather vest, posing to 2am dance music with a fur cloak and killer stare. It’s not what you expect from a grandmother, but Emilyn Claid has never been one to conform.
It’s 23 years since Claid’s last stage appearance. She started her dance career with the National Ballet of Canada in the late 60s. But she quickly left that behind to become part of Britain’s New Dance movement in the 70s and 80s, a group of artists liberating dance, and themselves, from the strictures of ballet, and moving into more avant garde, activist territory.
