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Career Highlights

Career highlights

Company Director/Choreographer

2005:  Director, Armitage Gone! Dance. New York, New York.

2004:  Director, The Venice Biennale International Festival of Contemporary Dance. Venice, Italy.
1999-2002:  Associate Choreographer, Ballet de Lorraine. Nancy, France.
1995-1998:  Director, MaggioDanza, the Florence Ballet. Florence, Italy.
1981-1989:  Director, Armitage Gone! Dance/The Armitage Ballet. New York.

Choreographer

2005:  In this dream that dogs me. The Duke on 42nd Street theater. New York, New York.

2005:  Ligeti Essays. Ballet de Lorraine. Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris, France.
2004:  Time is the echo of an axe within a wood. The Joyce Theater, New York.
2001:  Rave. Ballet de Lorraine. Opéra de Nancy, Nancy, France.
2000:  Schrodinger’s Cat. Ballet de Lorraine. Opéra de Nancy, Nancy, France.
1999:  Life Story. Stars of New York. The Royal Festival Hall, London, England.
1994:  The Dog is Us. Deutsche Oper Ballet,  Berlin, Germany.
1992:  Segunda Piel. Ballet de Monte Carlo, Monte Carlo, Monaco.
1987:  The Tarnished Angels. The Paris Opera Ballet, Paris, France.
1986:  The Mollino Room. American Ballet Theatre, The Kennedy Center, Washington D.C.
1984:  The Watteau Duets.  Maison de la Culture, Grenoble, France. 
1981:  Drastic-Classicism. Dance Theater Workshop, New York.

Opera Director/Choreographer

2005:  Opera Director/Choreographer, Pigmalion (Rameau).Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris, France.
2004:  Opera Director, Bluebeard’s Castle (Bartok). Het Muziek Theater, Amsterdam, Holland.
2003:  Opera Director/Choreographer, Orfeo Ed Euridice (Gluck) Teatro San Carlo, Naples, Italy.

Film Choreographer

2004: The White Countess.  Merchant Ivory Productions. Shanghai, China.
1999: The Golden Bowl.  Merchant Ivory Productions. London, England.
1994: Search and Destroy. David Salle, Director. New York.
1989: Without You, I’m Nothing. John Boskovich, Director. Los Angeles.

Television

2003:  Rave, choreography adapted for television. Producers: Les Films D’Ici/Arte. France.
1995:  Wild Ballerina, documentary on Armitage. Producers: Les Films D’Ici/Arte. France.
1985:  The South Bank Show, documentary on Armitage.  Producer: ITV. England.

Awards and Honors

2005:  Grand Prix Roscigno Danza. Italy.
2002:  Officier dans L'ordre des Arts et des Lettres. France.
1992:  Chevalier dans L'ordre des Arts et des Lettres. France.
1986:  Guggenheim Fellowship for Choreography. USA.


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