Lucinda Childs

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Lucinda Childs (born June 26, 1940 in New York City ) is an American dancer and choreographer . With her postmodern work, she has had a major impact on dance history since the 1970s.

Life

Lucinda Childs was born in New York City and attended Brearley School, a private girls' school on the Upper East Side , Manhattan . She started dancing when she was 6 years old. In the beginning she took u. a. Dance lessons with Hanya Holm and Helen Tamiris , both of whom are counted among the founders of modern dance in the USA. Childs received her dance training at Sarah Lawrence College with Judith Dunn , Bessie Schönberg and Merce Cunningham . In 1962 she completed her Bachelor of Arts and then studied at the Cunningham Studio. Here she met Yvonne Rainer , who she finally brought to the Judson Dance Theater in 1963 . There Childs was able to experiment and develop her own style of dance and choreography. Commenting on her work at the Judson Dance Theater, Childs said, "Judson made me curious about dance, but it also created a conflict between things: technique, working outside of the dance vocabulary, using objects and text."

In 1973 Childs founded her dance company Lucinda Childs Dance Company . She was the lead choreographer and soloist for Robert Wilson's opera Einstein on the Beach with music by Philip Glass . The encounter with Philip Glass' music marks an essential momentum in Child's career. Together with the conceptual artist Sol LeWitt , Glass and Childs developed the minimalist piece Dance in 1979 , which became a formative work in recent dance history insofar as it revolutionized the understanding of dance at the time. The piece was resumed in 2009 and has been touring worldwide with a new line-up ever since.

Since 1981 Childs has been regularly commissioned as a choreographer by renowned opera houses and festivals. a. by Paris Opéra Ballet, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Berlin Opera Ballet, Lyon Opéra Ballet, Geneva Opera Ballet and Ballet de l'Opéra du Rhin, State Ballet Munich, Salzburg Festival, La Scala Milan.

Childs has received various grants 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 on Childs:

“Strictness and unity of forms prevail over every work by the choreographer Lucinda Childs ... Only an inner contradiction and thorn prevent them from appearing pale and empty; Purism turns into cold, unleashed energy. Abstraction in not only non-objective, but subject and expression-styling anger, obsession. "

Works

  • 1963: Pastime
  • 1963: Three Piece
  • 1963: Minus Auditorium Equipment and Furnishings
  • 1963: Egg Deal
  • 1964: Cancellation Sample
  • 1964: Carnation
  • 1964: Street Dance
  • 1964: Model
  • 1965: Geranium
  • 1965: Screen
  • 1965: Museum Piece
  • 1965: Agriculture
  • 1966: Vehicle
  • 1968: Untitled Trio
  • 1973: Untitled Trio 2
  • 1973: Particular Reel
  • 1973: Checkered Drift
  • 1973: Calico Mingling
  • 1975: Reclining Rondo
  • 1975: Congeries on Edges for 20 Oblique’s
  • 1976: Radial Courses
  • 1976: Transverse Exchanges
  • 1976: Cross Words
  • 1976: Figure Eights
  • 1976: Einstein on the Beach
  • 1977: Melody Excerpt
  • 1977: Plaza
  • 1977: Interior Drama
  • 1979: Dance 1-5
  • 1981: Mad Rush
  • 1981: Relative Calm
  • 1982: Formal Abandon Part 1
  • 1982: Formal Abandon Part 2
  • 1983: Available Light
  • 1983: Formal Abandon Part 3
  • 1984: Cascade
  • 1984: Outline
  • 1984: Field Dances
  • 1986: Portraits in Reflection
  • 1986: Clarion
  • 1986: Hungarian Rock
  • 1987: Calyx
  • 1989: Mayday
  • 1990: Perfect Stranger
  • 1990: Four Elements
  • 1991: Rhythm Plus
  • 1992: Salome
  • 1993: Concerto
  • 1993: One and One
  • 1993: Impromptu
  • 1994: Chamber Symphony
  • 1994: Trilogies
  • 1995: Commencement
  • 1995: Solstice
  • 1995: From the White Edge Oh Phrygia
  • 1995: Zaide (Director)
  • 1996: fortepiano
  • 1996: Don Carlos
  • 1998: On the Balance of Things
  • 1998: Sunrise of the Planetary Dream Collector
  • 1998: Moto Perpetuo
  • 1999: Histoire. For the Martha Graham Dance Company. Music: Krzystof Knittel. Joyce Theater New York, New York.
  • 2000 Variete de Variete. Music: Mauricio Kagel. Théâtre de la Ville, Paris.
  • 2000: Description (of a Description). Text: Susan Sontag . Decoration & music: Hans Peter Kuhn. Le Corum Montpellier.
  • 2000: The Chairman Dances. For Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo. Music: John Adams . Grimaldi Forum

Monte Carlo, Monaco

  • 2001: Handel / Corelli. For the Bavarian State Ballet. Music: Georg Friedrich Handel & Arcangelo Corelli. National Theater 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 DC
  • 2003: Daphnis et Chloe. For Ballet de L'Opera de Geneve. Music: Maurice Ravel. Opera Nationale de Geneve, Geneva.
  • 2003: Opus One. For Mikhail Baryshnikov. Music by Alban Berg. Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut.
  • 2004: The wonderful mandarin . For Ballet du L'Opera du Rhin. Music: Béla Bartók. Théâtre 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: Le rossignol & Oedipus Rex . For L'Opera du Rhin. Music: Igor Stravinsky. Théâtre National de

Strasbourg

  • 2007: Psalm Symphony . 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. Theater de senses

Mulhouse

  • 2009: Dance. Lucinda Childs Company. Commissioned by the Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College.

Lucinda Childs in the film

  • 1980: Making Dances: Seven Post-Modern Choreographers . Directed by Michael Blackwood
  • 2009: ARTE documentary by Patrick Bensard, La Cinémathèque de la Danse. With rehearsals of Childs with Mikhail Baryshnikov and the Ballet de L'Opéra du Rhin in New York, London and Paris, as well as interviews with Mikhail Baryshnikov, Philip Glass , Anna Kisselgoff, Yvonne Rainer , Susan Sontag and Robert Wilson .

literature

  • Sabine Huschka: Lucinda Childs. Dances with real references. Minimalist forms. In: Sabine Huschka: Modern dance. Concepts, styles, utopias. rowohlt's encyclopedia. Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, Reinbek bei Hamburg 2002, pp. 263–266.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sally Banes: Terpsichore in Sneakers: Post-Modern Dance. Houghton Mifflin, Boston 1979, p. 133.
  2. ↑ Roslyn Sulcas: Dance: Freeing the Inner Childs: Talking Dancer. In: The Village Voice. (2001), IIPA , p. 67.
  3. ↑ Michaela Schlagenwerth: Lucinda Childs: Weltstar der Avantgarde , tip Berlin on August 10, 2011, accessed on August 14, 2011.
  4. ↑ Lucinda Childs: Vehicle (performance). September 25, 2008.
personal data
SURNAME Childs, Lucinda
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American choreographer and dancer
DATE OF BIRTH June 26, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City