Dorothy Max Prior has, created a wealth of outdoor/site responsive and dance/cabaret shows over the past 15 years, under the name Dorothy's Shoes, and with Ragroof Theatre/The Ragroof Players (as company co-director), with Paraladosanjos (Brazil), and has also contributed to many other companies' productions as choreographer or dramaturg.
New show in development for 2019/2020:
Director
Dorothy's Shoes: Hen Party
Ragroof Players' multi-discipline site-responsive show about migration and the search for home
Guest director/dramaturg for ParaladosanjoSå
Bridges y Puentes (2011-2017)
Eccentric dance, circus, vaudeville (Campinas, Brazil)
Director/choreographer
Cabare Excentrico (2016)
An extensive multi-artform series of site-responsive installations and performances created in Tenuta dello Scompiglio, Tuscany, Italy, in collaboration with Isobel Smith and James Foz Foster. (April to September 2014)
Lead Artist/ Director/Choreographer & Curator
Sisters of Hera (2014)
Street theatre & site specific show by Ragroof Theatre.
Choreographer/Dramaturg
Shall We Dance?–Encore! (2006- 2013).
Dorothy’s Shoes: a fairytale journey on the buses, trains and streets of East London, commissioned by BR116/LIFT
Director/Performer
Behind the Moon, Beyond the Rain (2011)
Circus-theatre / vaudeville outdoor show created for Paraladosanjos (Brazil)
Director/choreographer.
The Twins: (2017)
ongoing site-responsive project in Sao Paulo state, Brazil
Writer/dramaturg/co-choreographer/installation maker.
Pontes Integradas / Piraçara (2016/2017)
Collaboration between InRoad Productions, Zap Arts, and Ragroof), site-responsive show about social dance set in dancehals/nightclubs.
Choreographer.
Our Dancing Feet (2013/2014)
presented by Grist to the Mill at Suspense Festival, London.
Choreographer/dramaturg
Christina the Astonishing (2013)
Entre Lugares festival in Rio, Brazil (Dorothy’s Shoes) & Sacred Festival of Live Art: Dorothy’s Shoes commissioned artist for 2011/12
Director/Performer.
Flying Down to Rio (2011/2012)
A regular monthly live art/performance event at The Basement arts centre in Brighton 2008-2009.
Lead Artist/Choreographer/Curator
The Basement Bordello: