Lucinda Childs , sometimes Lucinda Childs ( Eng. Lucinda Childs , June 26, 1940 , New York ) is an American dancer, choreographer and director .
| Lucinda childs | |
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| English Lucinda childs | |
| Date of Birth | June 26, 1940 (aged 79) |
| Place of Birth | New York , USA |
| Citizenship |  USA |
| Profession | dancer, choreographer , theater director , opera director |
| Awards | Guggenheim Fellowship |
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Biography
She studied at the New York school for girls Brearley School . She started dancing at the age of six, but dreamed of becoming an actress. Privately studied with the stars of modern dance, Hani Holm and Helen Tamiris. She entered Sarah Lawrence College, where among her teachers were Bessie Schonberg and Merce Cunningham . Cunningham introduced Childs to Yvonne Rainer , who invited her to the Judson Ballet Theater ( 1963 ). Until 1968, Childs performed as a choreographer, then there was a break in this work.
In 1973 she founded her own company. I came to the extreme minimalism of expressive means. She staged at the ballet company Mary Rambert , at the Lyon , Berlin and Paris Opera, at the Bavarian State Ballet, etc. In addition to ballet performances, she staged operas from Baroque composers to the present day - from Gluck , Mozart and Wagner to R. Strauss , Schoenberg and F .Glass .
Stage
Ballet
- 1963 - Pastime , Three Pieces , Egg Deal
- 1964 - Carnation , Street Dance , Model
- 1964 - Germanium , Screen , Agriculture
- 1973 - Particuler Reel , Chekered Drift , Calico Mingling
- 1976 - Cross Words , Figure Eights
- 1977 - Plaza , Melody Excerpt , Interior Drama
- 1978 - Katema (Amsterdam)
- 1979 - Dance to music by Philip Glass , set by Saul Le Witt )
- 1981 - Mad Rush to music by Philip Glass )
- 1981 - Relative Calm (directed by Robert Wilson , Strasbourg)
- 1982 - Formal Abandon, part I and II
- 1983 - Available Light to music by John Adams (Los Angeles)
- 1983 - Formal Abandon, part III (Paris)
- 1984 - Cascade to music by Stephen Reich ; Outline
- 1984 - Premier orage (Paris)
- 1986 - Portraits in Reflexion (New York)
- 1987 - Calyx (New York)
- 1987 - Lichtknall ( Berlin Opera )
- 1989 - Mayday (with Sol Le Witt , Milan)
- 1990 - Perfect Stranger ( Lyon Ballet )
- 1990 - Four Elements to the music of Gavin Bryers (Oxford)
- 1991 - Rythm Plus to the music of György Ligeti (Paris)
- 1992 - Oophaa Naama (Charleroi)
- 1993 - Concerto to the music of Henrik Guretsky
- 1993 - One and One , Impromptu (Paris)
- 1994 - Trilogies , Chamber Symphony .
- 1995 - Kengir ( Avignon Festival )
- 1995 - From the White Edge of Phrygia (Paris)
- 1996 - Hammerklavier
- 1998 - On the Balance of Things (with Ensemble Intercontemporain , Paris)
- 1998 - Sunrise on the Planetary Dream Collector , Moto Perpetuo (Paris)
- 1999 - Histoire ( Martha Graham Dance Company , New York)
- [2000 - Variété de variété (Paris)
- 2000 - The Chairman Dances ( Ballet Monte Carlo )
- 2001 - Largo
- 2002 - Underwater (New York)
- 2003 - Daphnis and Chloe to the music of Maurice Ravel (Geneva)
- 2003 - Opus One (for Mikhail Baryshnikov )
- 2004 - “ Wonderful Mandarin ” to the music of Bela Bartok (Strasbourg)
- 2005 - “The Firebird ” to the music of Igor Stravinsky (Florence)
- 2005 - Ten Part Suite (Boston)
- 2010 - Songs From Before (Strasbourg)
- 2016 - “The Big Fugue ” to the music of Ludwig van Beethoven ( Lyon Ballet )
Opera
- 1976 : Einstein on the beach (Philip Glass, Avignon Festival)
- 1992 : Salome (Richard Strauss, Salzburg )
- 1994 : Round dance ( Philip Busmans , Brussels , based on the drama of the same name by Schnitzler )
- 1995 : Moses and Aaron ( Arnold Schoenberg , Amsterdam)
- 1995 : Zayed (Mozart, Strasbourg)
- 1997 : Don Carlos ( Giuseppe Verdi , Paris)
- 1999 : Macbeth (Giuseppe Verdi, Glasgow )
- 2001 : The Crow (Philip Glass, New York)
- 2001 : Lohengrin (Richard Wagner, Los Angeles )
- 2003 : Orpheus and Eurydice (Glitch, Los Angeles)
- 2004 : Parsifal (Richard Wagner, Geneva)
- 2005 : Doctor Atomic (John Coolidge Adams, San Francisco )
Literature
- Banes s . Terpsichore in Sneakers: Post-Modern Dance. - Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1979.
Links
- Lucinda Childs Company Website
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- (unavailable link) In the Theater Dictionary (Italian) (unavailable link from 05/07/2013 [2310 days])