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LUCINDA CHILDS DANCE COMPANY
A charismatic icon of American minimalist dance, Lucinda Childs is recognized among the world's leading choreographers and is still considered one of the "priestesses" of Postmodern Dance. Her company celebrates and traces her brilliant career with a retrospective that presents excerpts from some of her most famous choreographies: Radial Courses,Katema, Dance III, Concerto, Canto Ostinato, Available Light.
Lucinda Childs' career began in 1963 at Judson Dance Theater, where she choreographed 13 works and danced in works by Yvonne Rainer, Steve Paxton, and Robert Morris. In 1973 she founded the company that bears her name and for which she has created more than 50 works, including solos and ensemble works. In 1976 he participated to Einstein on the Beach by Philip Glass and Robert Wilson (for which he won an Obie Award). He participates to several Wilson productions: I Was Sitting on My Patio This Guy Appeared I Was Hallucinating, Heiner Muller´s Quartett, the Video 50 project, l´opera White Raven by Wilson and Glass, Maladie de la Mort by Marguerite Duras, alongside Michel Piccoli. He appears in Adam´s Passion by Arvo Pärt and Robert Wilson and collaborates to Letter to to Man. In 1979, he choreographs his most famous and beloved work, Dance, with music by Philip Glass and film adaptation by Sol LeWitt. In 2015 he revived Available Light (from 1983, music by John Adams, set by Frank Gehry), presented at the Festival d´Automne in Paris and the Manchester International Festival. Since 1981, he has choreographed works for companies including the Paris Opera Ballet and Les Ballets de Monte Carlo; directed and choreographed works including Gluck´s Orpheus and Eurydice (Opera in Los Angeles), Mozart Zaide (Monnaie to Brussels), Le Rossignol and _Oedipe _di Stravinsky, Vivaldi´s Farnace, Händel´s Alessandro, and John Adams´s Dr. Atomic (Opéra du Rhin). In 2014, Jean Baptiste Lully´s Atys and Jean-Marie Leclaire´s Scylla and Glaucus made their debuts at the Oper Kiel. He is Commandeur in the French Order of Arts and Letters, and in 2017 he received the Golden Lion from the Venice Biennale and the Samuel H. Scripps American Dance Festival Award for Lifetime Achievement.
choreographed by Lucinda Childs
music** John Adams, Philip Glass, Henryk Gorecki **and Simeon ten Holt
Lucinda Childs Dance Company performers** Robert Mark Burke, Katie Dorn, Katherine Helen Fisher, Kyle Gerry, Sarah Hillmon, Anne Lewis, Vincent McCloskey, Sharon Milanese, Patrick John O'Neill, Lonnie Poupard Jr., Caitlin Scranton, Shakirah Stewart**
production manager Josh Johnson
product from **Pomegranate Arts **
executive producer Linda Brumbach
In collaboration with** Change Performing Arts **
abstracts from:
**Radial Courses (1976) **
premiere Washington Square Methodist Church, New York, NY.
**Katema (1978) **
premiere Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam.
**Dance III (1979) **
music Philip Glass, "Dance III"
_Dance III _is the third movement of Dance, Childs' seminal opera , created in collaboration with Philip Glass and Sol LeWitt in 1979. The music is performed by the Philip Glass Ensemble. Dance was commissioned by the Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College, with support from The Yard, an artist colony on Martha´s Vineyard Island. Dance by Lucinda Childs was made possible through the National Endowment for the Arts´ American Masterpieces: Dance initiative, administered by the New England Foundation for the Arts.
Concert (1993)
music Henryk Gorecki, "Concerto for Harpsichord and Strings"
premiere Grande Auditório, Fundaçao Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal,
commissioned from Théâtre de la Ville, Paris.
Canto Ostinato (2015)
music Simeon ten Holt, "Canto Ostinato"
Schouwburg Arnhem premiere, Netherlands, February. Commissioned from Introdans.
Available Light (2nd Movement) (1983)
music** John Adams**, "Light Over Water"
Available Light is a collaboration between Lucinda Childs, composer John Adams and architect Frank Gehry. Available Light was originally commissioned by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. The 2015 performance was commissioned by Cal Performances, University of California, Berkeley; Festspielhaus St. Pölten; FringeArts, Philadelphia with support from The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage; Glorya Kaufman Presents Dance at the Music Center and the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association; International Summer Festival Kampnagel, Hamburg; Onassis Cultural Centre - Athens; Tanz Im August, Berlin; and Théâtre de la Ville - Paris and Festival d´Automne à Paris. Available Light was created at MASS MoCa (Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art).
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Lucinda Childs' career began in 1963 at Judson Dance Theater, where she choreographed 13 works and danced in works by Yvonne Rainer, Steve Paxton, and Robert Morris. In 1973 she founded the company that bears her name and for which she has created more than 50 works, including solos and ensemble works. In 1976 he participated to Einstein on the Beach by Philip Glass and Robert Wilson (for which he won an Obie Award). He participates to several Wilson productions: I Was Sitting on My Patio This Guy Appeared I Was Hallucinating, Heiner Muller´s Quartett, the Video 50 project, l´opera White Raven by Wilson and Glass, Maladie de la Mort by Marguerite Duras, alongside Michel Piccoli. He appears in Adam´s Passion by Arvo Pärt and Robert Wilson and collaborates to Letter to to Man. In 1979 he choreographed the_ Solitaire_, with_ _music by Philip Glass and film adaptation by Sol LeWitt, for the Ballet ofOpera in Lyon. In 2015 he revived Available Light (from 1983, music by John Adams, set by Frank Gehry), presented at the Festival d´Automne in Paris and the Manchester International Festival. Since 1981 he has choreographed works for companies including the Paris Opera Ballet and Les Ballets de Monte Carlo; he has directed and choreographed works including Gluck´s Orpheus and Eurydice (Opera in Los Angeles), Mozart Zaide (Monnaie to Brussels), Le Rossignol and _Oedipe _di Stravinsky, Vivaldi´s Farnace, Händel´s Alessandro and John Adams´s Dr. Atomic (Opéra du Rhin). In 2014, Jean Baptiste Lully´s Atys and Jean-Marie Leclaire´s Scylla and Glaucus made their debuts at the Oper Kiel. He is Commandeur in the French Order of Arts and Letters, and in 2017 he received the Golden Lion from the Venice Biennale and the Samuel H. Scripps American Dance Festival Award for Lifetime Achievement.
Originally from Elmwood Park, New Jersey, he is a dancer, choreographer, director and teacher. He holds a BFA in Dance from Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University. He has taken his work throughout the United States, including The Wild Project, Dixon Place, Paramount Theater (Boston), Hofstra University, Rutgers University, Rider University, Dance New Amsterdam, and the New Jersey Performing Arts Center. Robert Burke studied with Doug Elkins, was assistant choreographer to Brian Brooks for Julie Taymor's to Midsummer Night's Dream and toured with the North American Tour of Cats. He currently dances with Randy James' company 10 Hairy Legs, with Megan Williams, and with Meagan Woods and Company.
She graduated from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, where she earned a B.F.to. in Contemporary Dance. In 2006 she completed her M.F.to. at the Hollins University/American Dance Festival M.F.to. program. That same year she received the Martha Hill Young Professional Award for young performers. from when she moved to New York, Katie worked with the Metropolitan Opera Ballet, Gus Solomons Jr., Carlos Soto, and with Robert Wilson and Philip Glass for the revival ofopera Einstein on the Beach. She danced James Lee Byars' The Mile Long Paper Walk-a solo that was revived from Lucinda Childs for the Marron Atrium at MoMA New York in August 2014. Katie has been dancing for Lucinda Childs since 2009 and has passed on Lucinda Childs' work to students at the University of Michigan, the University of North Carolina School of the Arts and the Lon Opera Ballet.