Lucinda Childs
Lucinda Childs ( born June 26, 1940 in New York City ) is an American dancer and choreographer. With its postmodern work they influenced the history of dance much since the 1970s.
Life
Lucinda Childs was born in New York City and attended the Brearley School, a private girls' school on the Upper East Side, Manhattan. With 6 years of age she began to dance. In the early days it took, inter alia, Dance lessons with Hanya Holm and Helen Tamiris, both of which are counted among the founders of modern dance in the United States. Childs received her dance training at Sarah Lawrence College with Judith Dunn, Bessie Schonberg and Merce Cunningham. In 1962, she completed her Bachelor of Arts and then studied in the Cunningham Studio. Here she met Yvonne Rainer, 1963, which they brought to the Judson Dance Theater. There it was Childs possible to experiment and develop their own style regarding dance and choreography. Her work at the Judson Dance Theater Childs said: " Judson made me curious to dance, but it also caused a conflict between different things. Technique works outside the dance vocabulary, use of objects and text"
In 1973, Childs her dance company Lucinda Childs Dance Company. For Robert Wilson's opera Einstein on the Beach with music by Philip Glass, she was hired as a senior choreographer and Soloistin. The encounter with Philip Glass' music marked a significant momentum in Childs career. Together with the conceptual artist Sol LeWitt Glass and Childs developed in 1979, the minimalist piece Dance, which was a defining work of younger dance history, insofar as it revolutionized contemporary understanding of dance. 2009, the play was resumed, and touring the world since then with a new cast.
Since 1981, Childs is regularly commissioned by prestigious opera houses and festivals in choreography, including Paris Opéra Ballet, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Berlin Opera Ballet, Lyon Opera Ballet, Geneva Opera Ballet and Ballet de l' Opéra du Rhin, State Ballet Munich, Salzburg Festival, La Scala Milan.
Childs received several scholarships and awards, including the Bessie Award for lifetime achievement ( 2001). The French government awarded her the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres ( 2004).
The German theater critic Ivan Nagel Childs:
Works
Monte - Carlo, Monaco.
- 2001 - RETAIL / CORELLI. For the Bavarian State Ballet. Music: Georg Friedrich Händel & Arcangelo Corelli. National Theatre Munich.
- 2001 - LARGO. Music: Arcangelo Corelli. Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York.
- 2002 - UNDERWATER. Music: Philip Glass. The Kitchen, New York.
- 2002 - Chacony. For White Oak Dance. Music: Benjamin Britten. Lisner Auditorium, Washington, D.C.
- 2003 - DAPHNIS ET CHLOE. For Ballet de L' Opera de Geneve. Music: Maurice Ravel. Opera National de Geneve, Geneva.
- 2003 - OPUS ONE. For Mikhail Baryshnikov. Music of Alban Berg. Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut.
- 2004 - MANDARIN MERVEILLEUX. For Ballet du L'Opera du Rhin. Music: Bela Bartok. Theatre National de Strasbourg.
- 2005 - FIREBIRD. For Maggio Danza. Music: Igor Stravinsky. Teatro Goldoni Florence.
- 2005 - TEN PART SUITE. For Boston Ballet. Music: Arcangelo Corelli. Wang Center Boston.
- 2005 - DOCTOR ATOMIC. For San Francisco Opera. Music: John Adams. San Francisco Opera, California.
- 2007 - ROSSIGNOL & OEDIPUS REX. For L'Opera du Rhin. Music: Igor Stravinsky. Théâretre National
Strasbourg.
- 2007 - SYMPHONY OF PSALMS. For Maggio Danza. Music: Igor Stravinsky. Stazione Leopolda Fabbrica Europa, Florence.
- 2009 - TEMPO VICINO. For Ballet National de Marseille. Music: John Adams. Ballet National de Marseille.
- 2009 - SONGS FROM BEFORE. For Ballet du L'Opera du Rhin. Music: Max Richter. Theatre de sense
Mulhouse.
Movie (s) about Lucinda Childs
- 2009: ARTE documentary by Patrick Bensard, La Cinémathèque de la Danse. With sample recordings from Childs with Mikhail Baryshnikov and the Ballet de l' Opéra du Rhin in New York, London and Paris, and interviews with Mikhail Baryshnikov, Philip Glass, Anna Kisselgoff, Yvonne Rainer, Susan Sontag and Robert Wilson.