'The audience chucked food at us!' Emilyn Claid on angry shows, her ballet shame and gardening for Martha Graham
As she unveils The Trembling Forest with an ensemble of clay-covered performers, the great dance disruptor looks back on decades of radical and autobiographical shows Maybe it's inevitable by the age of 75 that you've lived a number of lives. For Emilyn Claid, that's meant the leap from ballet dancer in Toronto to the squats of grungy 1969 New York (via Martha Graham's garden), to pioneering the New Dance scene in 19…