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Susan Marshall is an American choreographer and dancer. She is the Artistic Director and Choreographer of Susan Marshall & Company which she formed sometime between 1982 and 1983, working initially with dancers Arthur Armijo, David Dorfman, Jackie Goodrich, and David Landis. Marshall has created over thirty dance works throughout her many years working with the company. She is known for incorporating everyday abstract movements, repetition, and variety into her pieces. She encourages her performers to develop a level of intimacy between each other, and between their audiences. She wants the audience to feel an emotional connection to the dancers. Marshall currently holds the role of the director of the Program in Dance at Princeton University's Lewis Center for the Arts, which she assumed in 2009.
Starting at Emanu-El Midtown YM-YWHA and PS 122, Susan Marshall & Company moved to Dance Theater Workshop in New York City for two- and three-week seasons in 1986 and 1987 respectively, during the second one of which her dance Kiss was performed, which remains in repertory with other groups. Kiss is a duet in which a couple is suspended from above the stage via ropes or cables and harnesses. In a dance review for the New York Times Anna Kisselgoff describes the performance as "a duet for a couple whose harness-equipped choreography sends them into space with centrifugal force and finally into a locked aerial embrace."
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