Helena Thevenot

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Maria Helena Thevenot is a Nicaraguan choreographer and dancer who lives in Miami .

life and career

Thevenot received a Bachelor of Arts degree in dance from the University of Maryland . She passed her Master of Arts examination in “Performance Studies” at the Tisch School of the Arts in New York.

In the late 1980s she came to Miami , where she worked as a solo dancer with composers Gustavo Matamoros , Jon Gibson , violinist and composer Alfredo Triff , video artist Benton C Bainbridge, filmmaker Dinorah de Jesus Rodriguez and sculptor Lonne Sherbill-Weinstein. Various scholarships have enabled her to perform in Germany , Poland , Mexico and Nicaragua. In Japan she worked with Kazuo Ohno , the founder of Butoh , and his son Yoshito Ohno. In 1999 she performed with the ExSit! Project in Germany and Poland, where she performed works by the Butoh duo Itto Morita and Mika Takeuch. The Miami Light Project presented works by Thevenot at the Here & Now Festivals in 1996, 1999, 2001 and 2003. In 2000, her choreography The Anatomy of Desire was performed by the Artemis Performing Network . Her Annotations were performed at Celcit's IX International Theater Festival in Managua in 2003 .

Thevenot teaches the dance technique of Nancy Topf and Butoh internationally and is a teacher at the New World School of the Arts Theater Department in Miami.

Web links

  • Helena Thevenot - Vita (New World School, Miami, archive version from 2011)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gustavo Matamoros . Vita, accessed on June 9, 2020.
  2. ↑ This Week's Day-by-Day Picks | Miami New Times . March 2003. Retrieved June 9, 2020.
  3. ↑ artist access> award recipients (2017-1997) . Tigertail Productions. April / May 2001. Retrieved June 9, 2020.
  4. ↑ artist access> award recipients (2017-1997) . Tigertail Productions. August 1999. Retrieved June 9, 2020.
  5. ^ The Anatomy of Desire . Retrieved June 9, 2020.
  6. ^ Benton C. Bainbridge . Catalog raisonné. Retrieved June 9, 2020.
  7. ^ News from New World School of the Arts . Archive 2009. Retrieved June 9, 2020, accessed June 9, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Thevenot, Helena
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Nicaraguan choreographer and dancer
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century