Michael Clark (dancer)

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Michael Duncan Clark (born July 2, 1962 in Aberdeen ) is a Scottish dancer and choreographer.

Life

Michael Clark learned the Scottish Country Dance as a child . From 1975 to 1979 he studied ballet at the Royal Ballet School in London . He began his stage career in 1979 with Ballet Rambert , where he participated in productions by Richard Alston . Clark attended a summer course with Merce Cunningham , worked with John Cage and in 1981 moved to New York City to join Karole Armitage, who was then the "punk princess" of dance . In 1984 he founded his own troupe, Michael Clark and Dancers , with whom he produced forty pieces over the next 25 years.

Clark worked for many houses and groups: Ballet de l'Opéra de Paris and its research group, the Scottish Ballet and the English National Ballet . Because of a drug withdrawal he had to take a break as a dancer between 1995 and 1998. He has been working at the Barbican since 2005, where he began a three-year Stravinsky project and choreographed Apollon musagète , Le sacre du printemps and Les Noces for his troupe . He worked in Peter Greenaway's 1989 film The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover , wrote the choreography for Greenaway's Prospero's Books in 1991 and played the Caliban himself .

Clark works with music and a. by David Bowie , Wire , Laibach , Iggy Pop , Lou Reed and The Fall and has worked with artists and designers such as Sarah Lucas , Peter Doig and Leigh Bowery . His work is attributed to post-punk . In addition to his professional dancers, Clark brings amateur actors to the stage, and his own mother also performed with him in 1994. Clark's work is based on his training in classical ballet and especially on the Cecchetti method , which he also demands from his troupe to master.

Clark produced at Tate Modern in 2010/11, and in 2012 he was artist in residence at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City , where he showed Who's Zoo? with the music of Jarvis Cocker . In 2014 Clark received the Aachen Innovation Prize for Art , endowed with 10,000 euros and awarded by the Peter and Irene Ludwig Foundation .

literature

  • Martha Bremser; Lorna Sanders (Ed.): Fifty contemporary choreographers . London: Routledge 2011
  • Suzanne Cotter , Michael Bracewell , Stephanie Jordan: Michael Clark . London: Violette Editions, 2011

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Liz Jobey: Michael Clark: 'Extreme is good for me' , Financial Times , November 15, 2013
  2. ↑ 2012 Biennial Residencies. Michael Clark in Residence March 14 – April 8 , at the Whitney Museum of American Art
  3. ↑ Martha Bremser; Lorna Sanders (Ed.): Fifty contemporary choreographers . London: Routledge 2011
  4. ↑ Gia Kourlas: Do Not Feed or Annoy the Dancers , New York Times , April 1, 2012
  5. ↑ Innovation award handed over to choreographer Michael Clark , Aachener Zeitung , March 24, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Clark, Michael
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Clark, Michael Duncan (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Scottish dancer and choreographer
DATE OF BIRTH July 2nd, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Aberdeen