Guerrilla Dances
Guerrilla Dances is a new solo live work written and performed by Liz Aggiss.

Armed with a beat-box and an attitude, Liz Aggiss selects from a repertoire of 23 short, sharp dance pieces to amuse, baffle and challenge audiences. Tagging other peoples shows, she is like the Banksy of the dance-world. Reconstructing archive choreography, mixing up the past, the present, fact and fiction, Guerrilla Dances builds into a coherent sequence of astonishing monochrome vignettes. Liz Aggiss has many bees in her dancing bonnet and mercifully none of them take very long.

In 2008 Guerrilla Dances has appeared at British Dance Edition Liverpool, Caravan Brighton Festival, National Maritime Museum Swansea, Glasgow City Festival, Shoot Festival Stockholm and Gothenburg.


Reviews
Review - British National Treasure

Last but not least – Liz Aggiss! she named her new collection of surprise appearances aptly indeed – Guerrilla Dances. They are apocryphic pieces based on historical personalities of dance and their work. How did it look like? During break or before the performance, when people usually shift in their seats switching off cells and finishing sandwiches, she stepped onto the scene and speaking through a trumpet claimed our attention. As we calmed down, each time more eagerly, she rewarded us with short cartoon sketches from the history of dance. For example, Mary Wigman wore a wide black skirt and pulling its hem over her head she made her dark performative art even darker. Then she turned around so that we could get a proper look at her. Mary may have stepped out of her grave, if she knew Liz didn’t put on any knickers. Guerrilla Dances currently comprise of about thirty numbers. We could see only a few scraps from this treasure but there is no doubt that this Vivienne Westwood of dance is a living jewel of the United Kingdom.

Jana Návratová Dance Zone Magazine Prague (translation)