Women at work

When all the men started going off to the war, the women had to start going to work in order to support themselves and their families. This was an unusual role in society for women to do as society was quite patriachal in those days so the men were the ones who went out to work and the women were to stay at home, cook, clean and look after the children.
The Suffragettes movement had started fighting for the women's rights to vote in the late 19th century so for the women fighting for this, it was a chance to prove what women were capable of.

We devised a section separate from our box section and it begun with short movement pieces dedicated to showing the work women would undertake such as manual labour and office work such as newspaper printing and call centres. We used a part of Liyah and Brit's duet where they had physicalised the work women did at home and at their jobs and how it affected them.