Carolyn Carlson

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Carolyn Carlson

Carolyn Carlson (born March 7, 1943 in Oakland / California ) is an American dancer and choreographer. She also works as a painter and graphic artist.

Life

Carlson studied at the San Francisco Ballet School and worked from 1966 bis 1971 in Alwin Nikolais ' Company. In 1968 she won the prize for best dancer at the International Dance Competition in Paris. In the mid-1970s she headed the Paris Opera Theatrical Research Group at the Opéra Garnier . During this time, works such as L'Or des Fous , Les fous d'or and Wind, Water, Sand, This and That and The Other were created .

After appearing at various festivals in Europe, she worked at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice from 1980 to 1985 , where her Blue Lady was born, which received international attention and secured Carlson a permanent position as a leading representative of modern dance . In 1993 she became director of the Swedish Cullberg Ballet . For more than nine years - until 2014 - she headed the Center choréographique national in Roubaix .

Carlson works primarily with the musicians René Aubry , Michel Portal and Gabriel Yared ; The jazz musician Karin Krog also composed for her.

Visual poetry

The lyrical-abstract graphic works of the artist (mostly in black and white) can be interpreted as a visualization of dance movements. An exhibition entitled Writings on Water took place in 2017 at the Musée d'art et d'industrie André Diligent in the former swimming pool ( La Piscine ) of Roubaix.

Individual evidence

  1. La Piscine . Programs Sept. 2017-Mars 2018, p. 24 f.