List of Works
Armitage Choreography 1978 - Present
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2007
Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical
The 40th Anniversary Concert Performance
Premiere: September 22, 2007 The Delacorte Theater Central Park New York City
Book and Lyrics by Gerome Ragni & James Rado
Music by Galt MacDermot
Directed by Diane Paulus
Choreography by Karole Armitage
Produced by The Public Theater
Ligeti Essays
Premiere: February 6,2007 Joyce Theater New York City
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance
Music: György Ligeti
Sippal, dobbal, nádihegedüvel – With pipes drums and fiddles (2000);
Harom Weöres-dal – Three Melodies by Weöres (1946-1947);
Négy lakodalmi Tánc – Wedding Songs (1950)
Der Sommer – Summer lyrics by Hölderlin (1989)
Négy lakodalmi Tánc – Wedding Songs (1950)
Hamburg Concerto (1989-99, revised 2003)
Musica ricercata (1953)
Set Design: David Salle and Clifton Taylor
Costume Design: Peter Speliopoulos
Lighting Design: Clifton Taylor
Premiere: May 14, 2007 The Public Theater New York
Books and Lyrics: Stew
Music: Steve and Heidi Rodewald
Directed and created in collaboration with Annie Dorsen
Scenic Design: David Korins
Costume Design: Elizabeth Hope Clancy
Lighting Design: Kevin Adams
Sound Design: Tony Smolenski IV
Movement Coordinator: Karole Armitage
Musical Director: Heidi Rodewald
Musical Supervisor: Jon Spurney
Premiere: May 1, 2007
Company: Washington Ballet
Music: Hamlet soliloquy performed by Richard Burton with music by Daniel Iglesia
Gran Partita
Premiere May 26, 2007 Sadler’s Wells Theater London
Company: Rambert Dance Company
Music: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart “Gran Partita”
Design: Jean Marc Puissant
Lighting Design: Giuseppe di Lorio
Conductor: Paul Hoskins
2006
Gamelan Gardens
Premiere: November 29, 2006.
New York City Center, New York, New York.
Company: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
Music: Lou Harrison
Set: David Salle and Clifton Taylor
Costumes: Peter Spelioupoulos
Lighting: Clifton Taylor
Premiere: March 26th, 2006.
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York.
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance.
Music: Gérard Pesson.
Costumes: Peter Spelioupoulos.
Produced by: Works and Process / Mary Sharp Cronson.
Premiere: March 30, 2006 NYU Tisch School of the Arts, New York City
Company: Second Avenue Dance Company
Music: Einojuhani Rautavaara, “Cantus Articus, Concerto for Birds and Orchestra”
Lighting Design: Dans Sheehan
Costume Design: Amanda Bujak
2005
In this dream that dogs me
Premiere: November 30, 2005.
The Duke on 42nd Street Theater New York, New York.
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance.
Music: Annie Gosfield.
Set: David Salle.
Costumes: Peter Speliopoulos.
Ligeti Essays (Songs)
Premiere: March 31, 2005 Centre Malraux Vandoeuvres, France
Company: Ballet de Lorraine
Music: Gyorgy Ligeti
Set: David Salle and Clifton Taylor
Costumes: Peter Speliopoulos
Lighting: Clifton Taylor
The White Countess
Merchant Ivory Productions. Feature film directed by James Ivory.
2004
Pigmalion
Company: Opera House Nancy France and Ballet de Lorraine.
Music: Jean-Philippe Rameau.
Direction and Choreography: Karole Armitage.
Set: David Salle.
Costumes: Peter Speliopoulos.
Dramaturge: Stefano Paba.
Location: Opera de Nancy et de Lorraine, France.
Dates of Performance: Dec. 17- Dec. 31, 2004.
Touring: Theatre de Chatelet Paris, June 12-15, 2005.
10 Poems
Company: ABCDance Company.
Premiere: May 27, 2004. St. Polten, Austria.
Music: Gyorgy Ligeti.
Costumes: Peter Speliopoulos.
The Double Life of Zefirino
Countertenor: Anthony Roth Costanzo.
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance.
Premiere: May 5, 2004. Princeton, New Jersey.
Music: Handel, Gluck, Pergolesi, Vivaldi.
Costumes: James Ivory.
Set: Andrea Branzi.
Lighting: Aaron Copp.
Time is the echo of an axe within wood
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance.
Premiere: March 2, 2004. New York, New York.
Music: Bela Bartok, Gavin Bryars, Annie Gosfield and Roger Klier, Charles Ives.
Costumes: Peter Speliopoulos.
Set: David Salle.
Lighting: Clifton Taylor.
2003
Living Toys
Company: Rambert Dance Company.
Premiere: May 29, 2003. Glasgow, Scotland.
Music: Thomas Adès.
Costumes: Peter Speliopoulos.
Lighting: Clifton Taylor.
Orfeo ed Euridice
Company: San Carlo Opera.
Music: Christoph Willibald Gluck.
Direction and Choreography: Karole Armitage.
Set: Brice Marden.
Costumes: Peter Speliopoulos.
Dramaturge: Stefano Paba.
Lighting: Roberto Venturi.
Premiere: Oct. 29, 2003. San Carlo Opera house. Naples, Italy.
2002
Broken Glass
Company: Florence Dance Company.
Premiere: Dec. 5, 2002. Teatro Goldoni. Florence, Itay.
Music: Salvatore Sciarrino, Thomas Adès, Philip Glass.
Costumes: Peter Speliopoulos.
Bluebeard's Castle
Opera in 1 Act: Co-production Opéra de Nancy and Ballet de Lorraine.
Premiere: Oct. 18, 2002. Théatre de l'Opéra. Nancy, France.
Music: Bela Bartok.
Costumes: Peter Speliopoulos.
Set: Andrea Branzi.
Lighting: Roberto Venturi.
Dramaturge: Stefano Paba.
Bluebeard: Czaba Arizier.
Judith: Natasha Petrinsky.
SZ110
Company: Ballet de Lorraine.
Premiere: Oct. 18, 2002. Théatre de l'Opéra. Nancy, France.
Music: Bela Bartok Sonata for 2 Pianos and Percussion.
Costumes: Peter Speliopoulos.
Set: Andrea Branzi.
Lighting: Roberto Venturi.
Pinokkio
Company: Introdans.
Premiere: September 13, 2002. Schouwburg Orpheus Apeldoorn, Holland.
Music: Pino Minafra.
Costumes: Jean Paul Gaultier.
Set: Andrea Branzi.
Lighting: Roberto Venturi
Sonata da Caccia
Company: Ballet de Lorraine; Revised for Florence Dance Company Dec. 2002.
Premiere: June 2002. Mexico.
Music: Thomas Adès.
Costumes: Peter Speliopoulos.
Melodien
Company: Ballet de Lorraine.
Premiere: May 22, 2002. Théatre de l'Opéra. Nancy, France.
Music: Gyorgi Ligeti.
Costumes: Peter Speliopoulos.
Lighting: Clifton Taylor.
2001
Rave
Company: Ballet de Lorraine. Nancy, France.
Premiere: November 28, 2001. Théatre de l'Opéra. Nancy, France.
Music: David Shea.
Costumes: Peter Speliopoulos.
Lighting: Clifton Taylor.
Power Surge
Company: Universtiy of Kansas Dance Department.
Premiere: November 2001 The Leid Center.
Drastic Remix
Company: Ballet de Lorraine. Nancy, France.
Premiere: June 14, 2000. Théatre de l'Opéra. Nancy, France.
Music: David Shea after original music by Rhys Chatham.
Costumes: Peter Speliopoulos.
Lighting: Roberto Venturi.
Rave 1
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance.
Premiere: January 23, 2001. Joyce Theater New York City.
Music: David Shea.
Tours: France, Italy.
Costumes: Peter Speliopoulos.
Lighting: Burke Wilmore.
2000
Schrodingers Cat
Company: Ballet de Lorraine. Nancy, France.
Premiere: November 7, 2000. Théatre de l'Opéra. Nancy, France.
Tours: France, Italy, New York.
Music: Gerard Hourbette with Art Zoyd.
Costumes: Peter Speliopoulos.
Lighting: Thibault Leblanc.
Concerto Conciso
Company: Ballet National de Cuba.
Premiere: Oct. 21, 2000. Teatro Garcia Lorca. Havana.
Music: Thomas Adès.
Tango Mortale
Premiere: June 24, 2000. Teatro Antico. Taormina, Sicily.
Tours: Italy, Greece, New York.
Music: Thomas Adès.
Costumes: Arjun Bhasin.
Yo, Giacomo Casanova
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance.
Premiere: June 24, 2000. Teatro Antico. Taormina, Sicily.
Tours: Italy and Greece.
Music: Thomas Adès, Yorgos Couroupos, Alfred Schnittke, David Shea, Giovanni Sollima, John Zorn.
Singer: Anthony Roth Costanzo.
Costumes: Arjun Bhasin and Peter Speliopoulos.
Set: Andrea Branzi.
Lighting: AJ Weisbard.
The Birds
Company: Greek National Opera Ballet.
Premiere: July 26, 2000. Irodion Theater , The Acropolis, Athens, Greece.
Music: Manos Hadjidakis.
Costumes: Peter Speliopoulos.
The Golden Bowl
Merchant Ivory Productions. Feature film directed by James Ivory.
1999
The Last Lap
Company: White Oak Project.
Premiere: August 10, 1999 The New Victory Theater, New York City.
Music: Dmitri Shostakovich excerpt from the Piano Quintet.
Costumes: David Salle.
Lighting: David Finn.
Life Story
Company: Wendy Whelen and Albert Evans of New York City Ballet for “Stars of New York.”
Premiere: August 7, 1999 Royal Frestival Hall, London, England.
Music: Thomas Adès.
Libretto: Tennesse Williams from In The Winter of Cities.
Costumes: David Salle.
Lighting: Perry Silvey.
Up At the Villa
Feature film directed by Phillip Haas.
1998
Pinocchio
Company: MaggioDanza di Firenze.
Premiere: June 11, 1998 Teatro della Pergola Florence, Italy.
Music: Giancarlo Schiaffini.
Set: Andrea Branzi.
Costumes: Jean Paul Gaultier.
Lighting: Roberto Venturi.
Nadaswaram
Company: MaggioDanza di Firenze.
Premiere: March 13, 1998. Bastia, Corsica France.
Music: "Samagan Lole" for Nadaswaram performed by Dr. Namagiripettai Krishnan. (Carnatic Classical Music from Southern India).
Wild Ballerina
1 Hour Feature documentary on Karole Armitage.
Directed by Mark Kidel.
Produced by Serge Lalou Les Films d'Ici, Reiner Moritz Productions.
Mirror's Edge
Company: Ballet de Monte Carlo.
Premiere: December 20, 1998. Opera de Monte Carlo.
Music: Michael Galasso.
Costumes: Alpana Bawa.
Lighting: Dominique Bruguière.
1997
Weather of Reality
Company: MaggioDanza di Firenze.
Premiere: February 11, 1997 Teatro Comunale Florence, Italy.
Music: DJ Ski.
Costumes: Pilar Limosner.
Lighting: Mark McCullough.
Tersicore
Company: MaggioDanza di Firenze.
Premiere: May 11, 1997 Teatro della Pergola Florence, Italy.
Music: George Frederick Handel.
Sets and Costumes: James Ivory.
Lighting: Roberto Venturi and Dominique Bruguière.
Director of Baroque Orchestra: David Bahanovich.
Soprano: Sophie Daneman.
Bass: Roberto Scaltriti.
Apollo e Dafne
Company: MaggioDanza di Firenze. Florence, Italy.
Premiere: May 11, 1997 Teatro della Pergola Florence, Italy.
Music: George Frederick Handel.
Sets and Costumes: James Ivory.
Lighting: Roberto Venturi Dominique Bruguière.
Director of Baroque Orchestra: David Bahanovich.
Soprano: Sophie Daneman.
Bass: Roberto Scaltriti.
1996
The Predators' Ball
Company: MaggioDanza di Firenze and Guest Actors, Rappers Voguers.
Premiere: June 11, 1996. Teatro della Pergola, Florence, Italy.
Text: Joe Sutton and John Gould Rubin.
Music: Jason Robert Brown, David Shea, DJ Ski.
Costumes: Hugo Boss, Pilar Limosner, Debra Moises Co.
Design: David Salle, Jeff Koons.
Motion Animation Video: Erica Beckman.
Lighting: Pat Dignan.
The Predators' Ball/ Hucksters of the Soul
Company: MaggioDanza di Firenze and Guest Actors, Rappers Voguers.
Premiere: Oct. 11, 1996. Brooklyn Academy of Music: New York, N.Y.
Text: John Gould Rubin.
Music: Phillip Johnston, David Shea, DJ Ski.
Costumes: Hugo Boss, Pilar Limosner, Debra Moises Co.
Design: David Salle
Motion Animation Video: Erica Beckman
Lighting: Pat Dignan.
1995
Scheherazade
Company: Maggio Danza di Firenze.
Premiere: Oct. 1995 Teatro Comunale. Florence, Italy.
Music: David Shea and Rimsky-Korsakov.
Set: Philip Taaffe.
Costumes: Pilar Limosner.
Lighting: Pat Dignan.
1994
Hovering at the Edge of Chaos
Company: Oregon Ballet Theater.
Premiere: May 13, 1994. Portland, Oregon.
Music: Noh Traditional, Australian House, Rai by Khaled, Brazilian Rap, 808 State, John Zorn, Japanese pop
Tattoo and Tutu
Company: Ballet of Bayerische Statsoper Munich., Germany.
Premiere: May 17, 1994. Statsoper. Munich, Germany.
Music: Shocklee Brothers.
Costumes: Pilar Limosner.
Lighting: Pat Dignan.
The Dog Is Us
Company: Ballet of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Germany and 6 standard poodles.
Premiere June 11, 1994. Deutsche Oper. Berlin, Germany.
Music: Carl Stalling, David Shea, Shocklee Brothers.
Set: David Salle.
Costumes: Pilar Limosner.
Lighting : Pat Dignan.
The Return of Rasputin
Choreography for a musical in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Search and Destroy
Feature film directed by David Salle.
1993
Hucksters of the Soul
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance.
Premiere June, 1993. Maison de la Culture, Bobigny. Paris, France. Tours: France, Germany, Italy.
Music: David Shea.
Costumes: Pilar Limosner.
Set: Karole Armitage.
Lighting: Pat Dignan.
I Had A Dream
Company: Ballet de Monte Carlo; an homage to Balanchine.
Premiere: December 25, 1993 Monte Carlo, Monaco.
Tours: Italy, France, Tunisia.
Music: Denis Gaultier, Marin Marais, Couperin, de Visée; Stravinsky, Ives, Nick Cave.
Costumes: Pilar Limosner.
Lighting: Pat Dignan.
1992
Segunda Piel
Company: Ballet de Monte Carlo.
Premiere: April, 1992. Monte Carlo, Monaco.
Tours: Italy, Austria, USA.
Music: David Shea.
Costumes: Alfredo Viloria.
In the Closet
Video clip for Michael Jackson.
Directed by Herb Ritts.
Happy Birthday Rossini
Company: MaggioDanza di Firenze. Florence, Italy.
Premiere: May, 1992. Teatro della Pergola, Florence, Italy.
Tours: Italy.
Music: Rossini and David Shea.
Set: Mina Albergo.
Costumes: Karole Armitage and Alfredo Viloria.
Lighting: Pat Dignan.
Hall of Mirrors
Half-hour feature film written, choreographed and directed by KA.
1991
Vogue
Video clip for Madonna.
Directed by David Fincher.
Blonde Ambition
Group: Madonna.
Several numbers for World Tour.
World Tour
Group: The Dyvinals.
Chain of Desire
Feature film starring Linda Fiorintino.
Directed by Temi Lopez.
The Marmot Quickstep
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance (aka Armitage Ballet).
Premiere: July,1991 Center For the Arts. Crested Butte, Colorado.
Tours: USA.
Music: David Shea.
Costumes: Karole Armitage.
Lighting: Pat Dignan.
Renegade Dance Wave
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance (aka Armitage Ballet).
Premiere: July, 1991. Center for the Arts. Crested Butte, Colorado.
Tours: USA and Japan.
Music: Renegade Sound Wave, 808 State.
Costumes: Karole Armitage.
Lighting: Pat Dignan.
Overboard
Company: Charleois Danse.
Premiere: December, 1991. Charleois, Belgium.
Music: David Shea.
Lighting: Pat Dignan.
1990
Forty Guns
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance (aka Armitage Ballet).
Premiere: August 8, 1990. Center for the Arts. Crested Butte, Colorado.
Tours: USA.
Music: traditional American.
Costumes: Karole Armitage.
Lighting: Pat Dignan.
Dancing Zappa
Company: Lyon Opera Ballet.
Premiere: Lyon, France.
Music: Frank Zappa.
Costumes: Karole Armitage.
Jack and Betty
Company: Les Nomades.
Premiere: Lausanne, Switzerland.
Tours: France, Italy, Spain, etc.
Music: John Zorn.
Costumes: Karole Armitage.
Love School
Video clip for the Dyvinals.
World Tour
Milli Vanilli.
Various Video Clips
Kuffs
Feature film starring Christian Slater.
Directed by Bruce Evans.
1989
Contempt
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance (aka Armitage Ballet)
Premiere: April 11, 1989. La Quartz. Brest, France.
Tours: USA, France, Spain, Italy.
Music: Thelonius Monk, Chet Baker, Charles Mingus, Shostakovich, Bach, John Zorn, Kurt Weil arranged by Gil Evans, text by Bret Easton Ellis recited by Thersea Russell.
Film: David Salle.
Sets: Jeff Koons and David Salle. (Pig constructed by Anne Slavit)
Costumes: David Salle.
Lighting: Ken Tabachnick.
Without You, I'm Nothing
Feature film starring Sandra Bernhard.
Directed by John Boskovich.
1988
Duck Dances
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance (aka Armitage Ballet)
Premiere: April 30, 1988. Angers, France.
Performed: USA, France, Germany, Japan.
Music: Jeffrey Lohn.
Costumes: David Salle.
Lighting: Debra Dumas.
Kammerdisco
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance (aka Armitage Ballet)
Premiere: April 10, 1988. Sao Paolo, Brazil.
Performed: France, Germany, Brazil, Portugal.
Music: Jeffrey Lohn.
Costumes: David Salle.
Lighting: Debra Dumas.
GoGo Ballerina
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance (aka Armitage Ballet).
Premiere: November 13, 1988. The World. New York, New York.
Performed: France, Italy, Spain, Portugal.
Music: Jimi Hendrix.
Sets: Jeff Koons.
Costumes: David Salle.
1987
The Tarnished Angels
Commissioned by Rudolf Nureyev.
Company: Ballet de l'Opera de Paris; Armitage Ballet.
Premiere with Ballet de l'Opéra de Paris: May 29, 1987. Théâtre de l'Opéra de Paris, France.
Premiere with Armitage Ballet: September 10, 1987. Doolittle Theater Los Angeles, California.
Tours: USA, France, Germany, Japan, Spain, Brazil, Italy, Belgium.
Music: Charles Mingus.
Sets: David Salle.
Costumes: Christian Lacroix.
Lighting: Ken Tabachnick.
Les Stances a Sophie
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance (aka Armitage Ballet).
Premiere: Joyce Theater. New York, New York.
Music: Art Ensemble of Chicago.
Set: Carroll Dunham.
Costumes: Pilar Limosner.
1986
The Elizabethan Phrasing of the Late Albert Ayler
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance (aka Armitage Ballet).
Premiere: September 25, 1986. Eindhoven, Holland.
Tours: USA, France, Japan, Spain, Germany, Holland, Italy, Belgium, Brazil, Portugal.
Music: Lord Buckley, Webern, Japanese traditional, Stravinsky, Ayler.
Sets and Costumes: David Salle.
Lighting: Ken Tabachnick.
1985
The Watteau Duets
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance (Joseph Lennon and Karole Armitage).
Premiere: March, 1985. Maison de la Culture. Grenoble, France.
Tours: USA, England, France, Belgium, Spain, Germany, Austria, Holland, Japan.
Music: David Linton.
Costumes and Lighting: Charles Atlas.
The Mollino Room
Commissioned by Mikhail Baryshnikov.
Company: American Ballet Theatre.
Premiere: Kennedy Center. Washington, D.C.
Tours: USA.
Music: Paul Hindemith and comedy routine by Nicholas and May.
Set and Costumes: David Salle.
Lighting: Jennifer Tipton.
The South Bank Show
(An arts program featuring the choreography of Karole Armitage )
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance.
Director: David Hinton.
Producer: London Weekend Television.
1984
Tasmanian Devil
Company: Tasmanian Dance Company.
Premiere: Tasmania.
Tours: Australia.
GV-10
Company: Ballet Théâtre de l'Opéra de Paris.
Premiere: Théâtre de l'Opéra Comique. Paris, France.
Tours: Festival d'Avignon, Greece.
Music: Stockhausen.
Costumes and Lighting: Charles Atlas.
Ex-Romance (a dance made for television)
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance.
Director: Charles Atlas.
Music: Jeffrey Lohn.
Costumes: Charles Atlas.
1983
The Last Gone Dance
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance. (Michael Clark and Karole Armitage)
Premiere: Theatre de la Ville. Paris, France.
Tours: France, USA.
Music: David Linton.
Costumes and Lighting: Charles Atlas.
Paradise (Version #2)
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance.
Premiere: Bordeaux, France.
Tours: France, USA.
Music: Jeffrey Lohn.
Costumes and Lighting: Charles Atlas.
A Real Gone Dance
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance. (Donald Byrd and Karole Armitage)
Premiere: La Mama Theater. New York, New York.
Music: Jeffrey Lohn.
The Nutcracker (co-choreographed with Rosella Hightower)
Company: Ballet de l'Opéra de Paris.
Premiere: Théâtre de l'Opéra de Paris. Paris, France.
Parafango (a dance made for television)
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance.
Director: Charles Atlas.
Music: David Linton.
Costumes: Charles Atlas.
Slaughter on MacDougal Street
Company: Group de Recherche de l'Opera de Paris.
Premiere: Chateauvallon, France.
Tours: France.
Music: Rhys Chatham.
Costumes, Set, and Lighting: Charles Atlas.
Paradise (Version #1)
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance.
Premiere: Ukrainian Ballroom. New York, New York.
1981
Drastic-Classicism
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance.
Premiere: Dance Theater Workshop, New York, New York.
Tours: France, England, Austria, Holland, USA, Spain, Italy, Switzerland.
Music: Rhys Chatham.
Costumes and Lighting: Charles Atlas.
It Happened At Club Bombay Cinema
Company: Extemporary Dance Company London, England.
Premiere: London, England.
Tours: England.
Music: various, including Indian movie music.
1980
Vertige
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance.
Premiere: NYC Club.
Tours: France, England, Holland, Austria, Italy, Germany, USA, Switzerland.
Music: Rhys Chatham.
Costumes and Lighting: Charles Atlas.
1979
Do We Could
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance.
Premiere: The Kitchen. New York, New York.
Performed: Chateauvallon, France.
Music: none
Costumes: Charles Atlas.
1978
Ne
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance.
Premiere: St. Francis Xavier High School gym. New York, New York.
Music: The THE.
Costumes and Set: Christian Marclay.
