KAROLE ARMITAGE: ARTISTIC DIRECTOR, CHOREOGRAPHER, OPERA DIRECTOR, FILM DIRECTOR
Artistic Director and Resident Choroegrapher
2023-2026:
Created production company, IAmADancerFilms
IAmADancerFilms are made by and with dancers who perform all the roles in the production from costume design to camera operators. The films are made in the auteur tradition. The work is designed for the screen to show dance from new perspectives. The cinematic styles include art films, hybrid documentaries and installations. Two features have been shot and one short and four art film/installations have been completed.
2004-2022:
Director, Armitage Gone! Dance Company, New York City
2004:
Artistic Director, the Venice Biennale International Festival of Contemporary Dance. Venice, Italy.
Armitage invited ABCDance Company, Austria; Guangdong Modern Dance Company, China; Ballet Freiburg Pretty Ugly, Germany; Jacopo Godani, Italy; Charles Linehan Company, England; Saburo Teshigawara/Karas, Japan; Russell Maliphant Company, England; Rambert Dance Company, England; Sarah Michelson, USA; Alonzo King’s Lines Ballet, USA; Isabel Bustons / Retazos, Cuba; Armitage Gone! Dance, USA; John Jasperse, USA; Shen Wei Dance Arts, USA; Ballet de Lorraine, France; Peter Boal and Company, USA
1995-1999:
Director, MaggioDanza, Teatro Comunale Opera House. Florence, Italy.
Armitage was responsible for creating a repertoire for the 49 dancers that included staging new versions of full length ballets including Swan Lake and The Sleeping Beauty, staging many Balanchine works, inviting guest choreographers including Adriana Boriello, Donald Byrd, Lar Lubovitch, Richard Move, Paul Taylor, young Italian choreographers and creating work for the company.
1985-1989:
Director, The Armitage Ballet. New York City
Future Projects
2028
No Wave NYC - Dance Music Art Movies - Exhibition
Curator François Aubart
Venue: Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid, Spain
March-July, 2028
2027
No Wave NYC - Dance Music Art Movies - Exhibition
Curator François Aubart
Venue: Jeu de Paumes, Paris, France
October–January, 2027
List of Works from 1978 - 2026
2026
Kafka Fragments – Opera
Company: Sejong Soloists
Kyung Kang, Creative and Executive Director, Sejong Soloists
Venue: Platform 1 Gangnam District, Seoul, Korea
Premiere date: August 27, 2026
Music: György Kurtag, Kafka Fragements
Direction: Karole Armitage
Harper’s Bazaar France - Feature article
Fashion Feature on Karole Armitage March issue
Text by Muriel Barbary
2025
GRRRL Nutcracker - FILM
Shoot May 19-Oct. 1, 2025 Wabaunsee County, Kansas
Concept: Karole Armitage
Direction: Karole Armitage
Music Act 1- Pytor Ilyich Tchaikovsky, The Nutcracker Ballet Act 1 and The Sleeping Beauty: No. 18. Entr'acte
Music Act 2 – Pytor Ilyich Tchaikovsky Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy and Waltz of the Flowers, Bikini Kill, Rebel Girl and Traditional music from China, Lan Ling Wang; Colombia, La Verdolaga; India, Alarippu; Mexico, Jarabe Michocana, the Philippines, Kalatong, Senegal, Mandiane; Samoa, Sasa; Sumatra, Tari Serampang12; Thailand, Phutai
Choreography: Karole Armitage Act 1 and Sugar Plum Fairy, Rebel Girl in Act 2
Location and Set Design Consultant: George Terbovitch
Costume Design: Karole Armitage, Susan Rendall, George Terbovitch
Costume Fabrication: Susan Rendall
Rehearsal Director: Cristian Laverde-Koenig
Lighting Design: Colin Neukirch
Director of Photographer and Handheld: Yusaku Komori
Director of Photographer and Gimbal: Cristian Laverde-Koenig
Sound Department: James Davis
Electrical Department: Francis Dolan
Art Department: Cristian Laverde-Koenig, Donovan Watts
Wardrobe Department: Bernice Poulter
Prop Fabrication: Simple Mischief Studio
Buffalo Head: Josh Huske
Chairs, Table, Rug: George Terbovitch
Production Assistant: Nullen Boyde
Ranch Manger: Marc Deever
S&S Contracting: Paul Shutter and Josh Huske
Horses: Marc Deever
Stage Manager: Blake Grimsley
CAST
Dancers New York City:
Eunhye Marcel as the Sugar Plum Fairy
Antonia Franceschi as Aunt Drosselmeier
Yusaku Komori as the Mouse King
Kara Walsh as The Prim Doll
Kansas Dancers Act 1:
Birklie Meyer as Clara Stahlbaum
Collison SanRomani as Fritz Stahlbaum
Anneliese Troxell as Frau Stahlbaum
Stephen Loch as Herr Stahlbaum
Masie Dulitz as Aunt Masie Stahlbaum
Katherine Digby as Grandmother Stahlbaum
Mike McCarty as Grandfather Stahlbaum
Erinn Bird as the Guest Mother and Gloved Hands
Cullen Krishna as Guest Father
Brooklyn Harrison and Josslyn Rivers as Guest Daughters
Jack and Brantley Carlson as Guest Sons
Olinga Grover, Mark Easton Hanson, Ryli Sorell as Mice
Mysterious Boy: Shashwat Churasia
Kansas Dancers Act 2:
Chinese Classical Dance:
Wanwan Cai
Colombian Bullerenge Folk Dance:
Camilla Banuelos
Emily Echeverry
Jade Echeverry
Stephanie Echeverry
Julia Gallion
Emely Rodriguez
Indian Classical Bharatanatyam Dance:
Shashwat Churasia
Mexican Jarabe Michoacan Folk Dance:
Eva Ippolito
Dana Rosales
Philippine Kalatong Folk Dance:
Michelle Davison
Ashley Galos
Jacob Galos
Jonel Loreno
Polynesian Sasa Dance:
Alofaiga Alofipo Key (Drums)
Lealali Alofipo Key (Drums)
Taimane Fusipala Key
Lealali Gavin Key Jr.
Tamara Lei Key
Talaina Lenesi Key
Tausala Pulelagi Key
Keili Tu'aelele Key
Teuila Lupelena Key
Salaivalu Yvonne Morris
Paemalemalama Patisepa Tali
Seenah Taeleileumete Tali Tuiletufuga
Talalupelele Tetele Tali
Vaetoe'efaga Talolua Tali Tuiletufuga
Sumatran Serampang12 Dance:
Evie Condra
Esterenia Armanto-Deddens
Ita Morinello
Rosa Owens
Eva Pujiastuti
Pania Slezak
Indira Ulaan
Marti Wilson
Thai Long Fingernail Dance:
Elizabeth Danda
Julie Danda
Margo Lewis
Kara Mauer
Sophia S Wahl
Senegalese Mandiane Dance:
Vanessa Gibbs
Malikah Muhammad
Yaminah Muhammad
Quarieb Muhammad (African Drummer)
Densil Malabre (African Drummer)
Schoenberg in Hollywood - Opera
Company: University of California Los Angeles Herb Albert School of Music; The Lowell Milken Center for Music of American Jewish Experience; The MIT Media Lab
Venue: UCLA Nimoy Theater, Los Angeles, California
Premiere: May 18, 2025
Music: Tod Machover
Conductor: Neal Stuhlberg
Direction and Choreography: Karole Armitage
Director’s Assistant: Kirsten Cairns
Librettist: Simon Robson
Sound Design: Ben Bloomberg
Media and Projection Design: Peter Torpey
Set Design: Tanya Orellana
Costume Design: Molly Irelan
Lighting Design: Pablo Santiago
Wig and Make-up Design: Patricia Lopez
Prop Manager: Brittany White
Arnold Schoenberg: Omar Ebrahim
Boy: Jon Lee Keenan.
Girl: Anna Davidsonn
Women in the World of Dance – Digital Galley ExhibitThe National Center for Choreography – The University of Akron
Christy Bolingbroke, Director The National Center for Choreography – The University of Akron
March 14-April 18, 2025
Text on Karole Armitage by Laura Regensdorf
Middle Plane Magazine Issue 10
Feature on Karole Armitage
Interview by Michael Clark
Photographer: Roni Monhati
Launch Event: Dover Street, Paris France
March 3, 2025
Clothes: Ellen Hodakova LVMH Prize Winner 2025
Fashion shoot featuring Karole Armitage by photographer Roni Monhait
Location: Rural Waubaunsee County, Kansas
January 30, 2025
Photographer: Roni Monhati
Clothes: Ellen Hodakova LVMH Prize Winner 2025
Ligeti Essays – Dance
Company: Vienna StaatsOper
Reprise Ballet Evening: The Moon Wears a White Shirt, Choreography Schapfer – Armitage – Taylor
Venue: Volksoper, Vienna, Austria
November 20- April 5, 2025
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)
Set Design: David Salle
Installation Design: Clifton Taylor
Costume Design: David Salle and Peter Speliopoulos
Lighting Design: Clifton Taylor
Dancers: Vienna Opera Ballet
2024
Mirror World Study – Dance
Company: Armitage Pickup Dancers
Venue: The Shed, New York City
May 18, 2024
Choreography: Karole Armitage
Music: Tony Conrad, From the Side of Man and Womankind
Costumes: Carole Armitage
Dancer: Megan LeCrone
Dancers: Megan LeCrone
Mirror World Study – Dance
Company: Armitage Pickup Dancers
Venue: Ballet Arts, New York City
March 21, 2024
Choreography: Karole Armitage
Music: Tony Conrad, From the Side of Man and Womankind
Costumes: Karole Armitage
Dancers: Megan LeCrone, Lucy Stewart
Mirror World Study – Dance Shoot
Company: Armitage Pickup Dancers
Venue: Tisch School of the Arts, Jack Crystal Theater
March 22, 2025
Choreography: Karole Armitage
Music: Tony Conrad, From the Side of Man and Womankind
Costumes: Karole Armitage
Dancers: Megan LeCrone, Lucy Stewart
Ligeti Essays – Dance
Company: Vienna StaatsOper
Martin Schapfer, Director of the Vienna State Ballet
Reprise Ballet Evening: The Moon Wears a White Shirt, Choreography Schapfer – Armitage – Taylor
Venue: Volksoper, Vienna, Austria
January 4- June 4, 2024
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)
Set Design: David Salle
Lantern Design: David Salle
Light Installation Design: Clifton Taylor
Costume Design: David Salle and Peter Speliopoulos
Lighting Design: Clifton Taylor
Dancers: Vienna Opera Ballet
Movement Workshop - Opera
Venue: Washington National Opera, Washington D.C
Christopher Cano, Director of the Cafritz Young Artist Program and American Opera Initiative
Jan 28-Feb. 1, 2024
Movement Workshop at the Washington National Opera for the Cafritz Young Artist Program and the American Opera Initiative supporting the production Songbird, adapted from Offenbach’s La Périchole in a Prohibition-Era New Orleans setting— in a reimagined, jazz-infused comedy directed by Eric Sean Fogel.
Choreography/Workshop Leader: Karole Armitage
2023
Overstory Overture - Opera
Overstory Overture is the first section of an opera by Tod Machover inspired by Richard Powers' Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Overstory. Soprano Joyce di Donato performed the role of fictional dendrologist, Dr. Patricia Westerford based on real world scientist Dr. Suzanne Simard.
Company: Sejong Soloists
Kyung Kang, Creative and Executive Director, Sejong Soloists
Venue: Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center, New York City
Premiere: March 7, 2023
Seoul Premiere: April 4, 2023
Music: Tod Machover
Conductor: Earl Lee
Direction: Karole Armitage
Libretto: Simon Robson
Sejong Soloists Chamber Orchestra
Lighting Design: Peter Torpey
Featuring Mezzosoprano Joyce di Donato
Ligeti Essays – Dance
Company: Vienna StaatsOper
Martin Schapfer, Director of the Vienna State Ballet
Ballet Evening: The Moon Wears a White Shirt, Choreography Schapfer – Armitage – Taylor
Venue: Volksoper, Vienna, Austria
Premiere: November 12, 2023 (with further performances through November 2023)
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)
Set Design: David Salle
Lantern Design: David Salle
Light Installation Design: Clifton Taylor
Costume Design: David Salle and Peter Speliopoulos
Lighting Design: Clifton Taylor
Dancers: Vienna Opera Ballet
IAmADancer Films – Film Screening
I Am A Dancer Films was formed by Karole Armitage in 2019 to make dance designed specifically for the screen, showing dance from new perspectives. The cinematic styles include art films, hybrid documentaries, installations and feature films. The films are made by and with dancers in roles ranging from performers to gimbal operators to crew members.
Venue: Film Casino Theater, Vienna Austria
Premiere October 29, 2023
Rewriting Beethoven (2023)
Head to Heel (2023)
Louis (2023)
Killer (2023)
Time/Times (2023)
Head to Heel - IAmADancer Films
Inspired by Jack Hartnell’s 2020 book, Medieval Bodies: Life and Death in the Middle Ages, that unravels the body piece by piece: the head, senses, skin, bones, heart, blood, hands, stomach, genitals and, finally, the feet.
Shot in New York City
Direction and Choreography: Karole Armitage
Costumes: Eleen Halvorsen
Body Parts: Dapper Cadaver
Lighting: Tsubasa Kamei
Editor: Karole Armitage
Dancers: Sierra French, Alonso Guzman
Killer - IAmADancer Films
Shot in New York City
Direction and Choreography: Karole Armitage
Music: David Lang, Killer
Costumes: Alba Clemente
Camera/Editor: Karole Armitage
Dancers: Sierra French, Isaac Kerr, Cristian Laverde-Koenig, Kali Marie Oliver, Rebecca Walden
Louis - IAmADancer Films
Inspired by Roberto Rossellini's film, La prise de pourvoir par Louis XIV; The Taking of Power by Louis XIV
Shot in New York City
Direction and Choreography: Karole Armitage
Music: Thomas Adés, Sonata da Caccia – Galement; David T. Little, Hellhound, Maya Beiser Cello; Jean-Baptiste Lully, Marche des mousquetaires
Costumes: Karole Armitage
Shoes: Valeria Orani
Lighting: Tsubasa Kamei
Camera/Editor: Karole Armitage
Louis: Cristian Laverde-Koenig
Le Courtisan: Alonzo Guzman
La Bonne: Sierra French
Rewriting Beethoven - IAmADancer Films
Shot in New York City
Direction and Choreography: Karole Armitage
Music: Michael Gordon, Rewriting Beethoven
Costumes: Karole Armitage, David Salle
Camera and Gimbal: Alonso Guzman
Editor: Karole Armitage
Dancers: Sierra French, Cristian Laverde-Koenig
Time/Times - IAmADancer Films
Filmed on location in Colorado and New Mexico.
February and March 2021
Direction and Choreography: Karole Armitage
Music: Johann Sebastian Bach, Chaconne in D minor for solo violin, Isaac Stern Violin; Arvo Pärt, Mozart Adagio
Script: Karole Armitage
Narrator: Alba Clemente
Costumes: Karole Armitage
Camera/Editor: Karole Armitage
Dancers: Karole Armitage, Jock Soto
What's Cooking aka The Art of Fringe Cooking - IAmADancer Films Shoot
A full-length feature film combing a musical with a cooking show and documentary narration to portray a dance family of immigrants.
Venue: Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, New Jersey
Direction and Choreography: Karole Armitage
Original Score: Matt Mottel
Music: Public Image, Swan Lake; The Spinners, Dip and Fall Back
Lighting: Takkai Ando
Costume Manager: Aaron Copp
Production Managers: Sierra French, Kara Walsh
Grips: Joshua Eguia, Isaac Kerr
Camera: Karole Armitage, Cuong Huy Nguyen
Actor Cooks: Flavia Caroppo, Valeria Orani, Veridiana Patacchini
Dancers: Leonides D. Apron, William Isaac, Cristian Laverde- Koenig, Kali Marie Oliver, Emily Wagner, Mei-hua Wang
2022
Carol/Karole – The Carol Kaye Project - Dance
Company: Boston Dance Theater
Jessie Jeanne Stinnet, Director Boston Dance Theater
Venue: Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts
Premiere Nov. 11, 2022
Subsequent tours through 2025
Choreography: Karole Armitage
Music: Carol Kaye, Sonny & Cher The Beat Goes On, Nancy Sinatra These Boots are Made for Walking, Lalo Schifrin Music from Mission Impossible
Set, Props. Costumes: Karole Armitage
Dancers: Olivia Coombs, Khris Henry, Henoch Spinola, Jessie Jeanne Stinnet, Wesley Urbanczyk
Skydance - Site Specific Dance
A site specific work by Karole Armitage commissioned by the Moody Center for the Arts at Rice University.
Compamy: Armitage Gone! Dance
Alison Weaver, Executive Director Moody Center for the Arts
It was the final performance by Armitage Gone! Dance before the company disbanded.
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance
Venue: Skyspace: James Turrell, Houston, Texas
Premiere: April 22, 2022
Choreography: Karole Armitage
Music: Alvin Lucier, Music for Piano with Magnetic Strings
Dancers: Sierra French, Shoko Fujita, Alonso Guzman, Cristian Laverde- Koenig, Isaac Kerr, Kara Walsh and Rice University Students.
A Pandemic Notebook - Dance and Film
An evening length performance surveying work created during Covid “bubble residencies” that mixed live and screen dance.
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance
Venue: New York Live Arts, New York City
Premiere: March 16, 2022
Choreography: Karole Armitage
Music: Thomas Adés, Sonata da Caccia – Galement; Johann Sebastian Bach, Chaconne in D minor for solo violin, Isaac Stern Violin; Michael Gordon, Acquanetta (Chamber Version): Celluloid World, Rewriting Beethoven; David T. Little, Hellhound, Maya Beiser, Cello; David Lang, Killer; Jean-Baptiste Lully, Marche des mousquetaires; Arvo Pärt, Mozart Adagio; Jim Pepper Goin’ down to Muskogee
Sound Design and Engineer: Agnes Fury Cameron
Live Camera on stage: Karole Armitage
Lighting Design: Tusbasa Kamei
Dancers: Karole Armitage, Sierra French, Alonso Guzman, Isaac Kerr, Kali Marie Oliver, Cristian Laverde-Koenig, Jock Soto, Kara Walsh
Rave - Reprise - Dance
Company: Introdans Ensemble for Youth
Part of the Introdans program Confetti
Venue: Theatre Flint, Amersfoort, Holland
Introdans reprisal: January 29, 2022
Choreography Karole Armitage
Commissioned Music: David Shea
Costumes: Peter Speliopoulos
Skin Color Palette: David Salle
Dancers: Giuditta Alfarano, Ruben Ameling, Aymeric Aude, Sofia Baglietto,
Michelle Commanduci, Pablo Davila Iglesia, Mathieu Di Scala, Mark van Drunick,
Roos Englebert, Yuma Funai, Alexis Geddes, Aymara Herrero Feria, Ibrah Silas Kakande, Elaine Meijerink, Rutkay Özpinar, Cristina Pastore, Jurriën Schobben, Moet Tsukada, Demi Verheezen, Alberto Villanueva Rodríguez, Léa Visser
2021
The Oxford Book of Contemporary Ballet – Book
Publication by Oxford University Press 2021
Ballet at the Margins – Karole Armitage Bronislava Najinska by Molly Faulkner and Julia Gleich
Killer - Dance
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance
Venue: Covid “Bubble Residency” Mount Tremper Arts, Phoenicia, New York
Mathew Pokoik, Executive Director and Co-Founder, Mount Tremper Arts
September 8-13, 2021
Choreography: Karole Armitage
Music: David Lang, Killer
Costumes: Alba Clemente
Lighting Design: Clifton Taylor
Camera/Editor: Karole Armitage
Dancers: Sierra French, Isaac Kerr, Cristian Laverde-Koenig, Kali Marie Oliver, Rebecca Walden
6 Ft. Apart - Dance
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance
Venue: Covid “Bubble Residency” Vineyard Arts Project, Edgartown, Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts
April 20- May 17, 2021
Premiere: May 20, 2021 streamed from New York Live Arts, New York City
Choreography: Karole Armitage
Sound Design and Engineer: Agnes Fury Cameron
Lighting Design: Clifton Taylor
Live Camera on stage: Karole Armitage
Dancers: Sierra French, Alonso Guzman, Cristian Laverde-Koenig
Louis - Dance
Inspired by Roberto Rossellini’s film, La Prise de Pouvoir par Louis XIV
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance
Venue: Covid “Bubble Residency” Vineyard Arts Project, Edgartown, Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts
September 13 – October 14, 2021
Choreography: Karole Armitage
Music: Thomas Adés, Sonata da Caccia – Galement; David T. Little, Hellhound, Maya Beiser Cello; Jean-Baptiste Lully, Marche des mousquetaires
Costumes: Karole Armitage
Shoes: Valeria Orani
Lighting Design: Clifton Taylor
Louis: Cristian Laverde-Koenig
Le Courtisan: Alonzo Guzman
La Bonne: Sierra French
Rewriting Beethoven - Dance
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance
Venue: Covid “Bubble Residency” Vineyard Arts Project, Edgartown, Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts
April 20- May 17, 2021
Choreography: Karole Armitage
Music: Michael Gordon, Rewriting Beethoven
Costumes: Karole Armitage, David Salle
Lighting Design: Clifton Taylor
Dancers: Sierra French, Cristian Laverde-Koenig
From Head to Heel - Dance
Inspired by the book Medieval Bodies: Live, Death and Art in the Middle Ages by Jack Hartnell
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance
Venue: Covid “Bubble Residency” Vineyard Arts Project, Edgartown, Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts
September 13 – October 14, 2021
Choreography: Karole Armitage
Costumes: Eleen Halvorsen
Lighting Design: Clifton Taylor
Dancers: Sierra French and Alonso Guzman
2020
Beautiful Monster - Screen Dance
Dance for the Screen inspired by Luchino Visconti’s film, La Strega Bruciata Viva
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance
Venue: Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, New Jersey
Filmed February 2020
Choreography: Karole Armitage
Music: Michael Gordon, Acquanetta (Chamber Version): Celluloid World
Costumes: Karole Armitage after Piero Tosi
Camera: Karole Armitage, Cristian Laverde Koenig
Dancers: Sierra French and Alonso Guzman
Marc Jacobs Fall/Winter 2020 - Fashion Show
Company: Karole Armitage, 57 dancers, 80+ models and a few celebrities
Venue: Park Avenue Armory, New York City
Premiere: February 12, 2020
Choreography: Karole Armitage
Music: Steve Mackey with pianist Anton Batagov
1st model leading the fashion show: Karole Armitage
2019
The Photographer - Opera
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance
Venue: Crested Butte Center for the Arts, Crested Butte, Colorado
Premiere: July 5, 2019
Music: Philip Glass, The Photographer
Conductor Dr. Erik Christian Peterson
Choreography: Karole Armitage
Orchestra: Emily Ondracek-Peterson, concertmaster and violin soloist; Michael Miller, violin; Jessica Kus, viola; Anna Azurmanyan, piano; Patricia Surman, flute; Mark Harris, soprano saxophone; Sam Williams, alto saxophone; Michael Hengst, trumpet, Adam Bartczak, trombone; Andrew Friedrichs, trombone.
Sopranos: Laura Triby, Danielle Kimbell, Kathleen Schmidt
Dancers: Joshua Eguia, Chanmee Jeong, Isaac Kerr
You Took A Part of Me - Dance
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance with Japan Society
Yoko Shioya, Artistic Director Japan Society
Venue: Japan Society, New York City
Premiere: April 12, 2019
Original Commissioned Music: Reiko Yamada
Musician: Yuki Isami
Costumes: Peter Speliopoulos
Chromoskin Makeup Design: Cindy Kao
Inflatable Origami Design: Jifei Ou
Lighting Design: Clifton Taylor
Featuring: Megumi Eda
Dancers: Megumi Eda, Sierra French, Cristian LaVerde-Koenig
2018
Schoenberg in Hollywood - Opera
Company: Boston Lyric Opera, MIT Media Lab
Esther Nelson, Director Boston Lyric Opera
Joi Ito, Director MIT Media Lab
Venue: Emerson Paramount Center, Boston, Massachusetts
Premiere: November 14, 2018
Music: Tod Machover
Conductor: David Angus
Direction and Choreography: Karole Armitage
Director’s Assistant: Kirsten Cairns
Librettist: Simon Robson
Sound Design: Ben Bloomberg
Media and Projection Design: Peter Torpey
Set Design: Simon Higlett
Costume Design: Nancy Leary
Lighting Design: Pablo Santiago
Wig and Make-up Design: Jason Allen
Arnold Schoenberg: Omar Ebrahim
Boy: Jesse Darden
Girl: Sara Womble
Art of the In-Between - Dance
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance with Celebrate Mexico Now! and National Sawdust
Paola Prestini, Director National Sawdust
Claudia Norman, Director Mexico Now!
Venue: National Sawdust, Brooklyn, New York
Premiere: October 20, 2018
Dia des los Muertos
Choreography: Karole Armitage
Music: DNA, Not Moving; Theoretical Girls, You Got Me; Wyclef Jean, Guantanamera; David Lang, Unused Swan, Cheating Lying Stealing; Marilyn Manson, This is Halloween; Gioacchino Rossini, Duetto Buffo di Due Gatti; Fats Waller, Dry Bones
Original Commissioned Music: Terry Dame, Bats, TransSpeciesDance, Bone Orchestra
Costumes:
Mr. Bones, Skeletons, Devils, Horned Lighting, Red Shoes, Krapo, Butch Bride, Sultry Sequin Drag: Peter Speliopoulos
Cat, Rabbit, Spiderman, Mask and Prop Design: Simone Duff
Owl, Bat, Cat, Witch, Deconstruct Skeleton Design: Jon Can Coskunses
Rooster Design: Alba Clemente
Tutu Design: Christian Lacroix
Lighting Design: Conor Mulligan after design by Clifton Taylor
Donkey Jaw Bone:
Choreography: Karole Armitage
Music: Traditional Nahuatl, Tlalok, Permiso, Sipe, Queltlzcoatl, Cascavel, Tlamanalkulu
Musicians: Peter Basil Bagdanos (Hueheutl, Ayoyotes, Quidada); Juan Lucero (Teponatzle, Jarana, Quidada)
Costume Design: Pilar Limosner
Lighting Design: Conor Mulligan after design by Clifton Taylor
Dancers: Ahmaud Culver, Megumi Eda, Sierra French, Alonso Guzman, Isaac Kerr, Yusaku Komori, Cristian Laverde-Koenig
From Dirt to Soil - Dance
Company: Trinity Laban Transitions Dance Company
Mirella Bartip, Director of Dance, Trinity Laban Conservatory of Dance and Music
Venue: Trinity Laban Theater, London England
Premiere: October 12, 2018
Choreography: Karole Armitage
Text: Wes Jackson
Dancers: Trinity Laban Students
Donkey Jaw Bone - Dance
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance
Venue: New York Live Arts, New York City
Premiere: June 12, 2018
Choreography: Karole Armitage
Music: Traditional Nahuatl, Tlalok, Permiso, Sipe, Queltlzcoatl, Cascavel, Tlamanalkulu
Musicians: Peter Basil Bagdanos (Hueheutl, Ayoyotes, Quidada); Juan Lucero (Teponatzle, Jarana, Quidada)
Costume Design: Pilar Limosner
Lighting Design: Clifton Taylor
Lighting Coordinator: Conor Mulligan
Dancers: Ahmaud Culver, Megumi Eda, Sierra French, Alonso Guzman, Yusaku Komori, Cristian Laverde-Koenig
2017
Halloween Unleashed: Dancing Bones, Tasting Darkness and the Skeleton Within - Dance
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance with LaMaMa
Mia Yoo, Artistic Director, LaMaMa
Nicky Paraiso, Curator LaMaMa
Venue: LaMaMa First Floor Theater, New York City
Premiere: October 27, 2017
Direction and Choreography: Karole Armitage
Music: DNA, Not Moving; Theoretical Girls, You Got Me; Wyclef Jean, Guantanamera; David Lang, Unused Swan, Cheating Lying Stealing; Marilyn Manson, This is Halloween; Gioacchino Rossini, Duetto Buffo di Due Gatti; Fats Waller, Dry Bones
Original Commissioned Music: Terry Dame, Bats, TransSpeciesDance, Bone Orchestra
Costumes:
Mr. Bones, Skeletons, Devils, Horned Lighting, Red Shoes, Krapo, Butch Bride, Sultry Sequin Drag Design: Peter Speliopoulos
Cat, Rabbit, Spiderman, Mask and Prop Design: Simone Duff
Owl, Bat, Cat, Witch, Deconstruct Skeleton Design: Jon Can Coskunses
Rooster Design: Alba Clemente
Tutu Design: Christian Lacroix
Installation Design: Peter Speliopoulos
Lighting Design: Clifton Taylor
Dancers: Edgar Clauss, Ahmaud Culver, Megumi Eda, Sierra French, Yusaku Komori, Cristian Laverde-Koenig
Walls - Dance with live poetry and live painting on stage
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance with Alba and Francesco Clemente
Ravello Festival, Ravello, Italy
Venue: Belvedere di Villa Rufolo, Ravello, Italy
Premiere: July 2, 2017
Choreography: Karole Armitage
Music: David Lang, Sweet Air, Traditional Apo Xeno Meros performed by Jordi Savall and Monserrat Figueras
Costumes: Alba Clemente
Live Painting: Francesco Clemente
Recitation: Alba Clemente
Dancers: Ahmaud Culver, Megumi Eda, Cristian Laverde-Koenig, Izabela Szylinska
2016
Beneath Our Feet - Kansa, Pawnee and Osage Roots in Lawrence Kansas - Lecture
Simons Lecture by Karole Armitage
Venue: The Hall Center for the Humanities, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas
Oct. 8, 2016
Music: Jim Pepper Witchi Tai To
Karole Armitage presents her research on the Kaw, Pawnee and Osage Nations who made eastern Kansas their home, prior to removal to Oklahoma.
American Dream - Dance
Karole Armitage curates evening of important philosophies and techniques of 20th and 21st Century American Dance with a nod to the origin of Dance in America, through a traditional Native American dance.
Company: Ravello Festival
Venue: Auditorium Oscar Niemeyer
Premiere: August 6, 2016, Ravello, Italy
Program:
Traditional Native American Prairie Chicken Dance
Music: Traditional Plains Indian - Blackfoot Confederacy
Dancer: Calvin Smith
Richard Move
Technique Demonstration (2001)
Choreography: Richard Move
Music: Aaron Copeland (Excerpt Appalachian Spring)
Martha Graham: Richard Move
Dancers: Catherine Cabeen, Katherine Crockett
New York City Ballet
Excerpt from Apollo (1928)
Choreography: George Balanchine
Music: Igor Stravinsky, Excerpts from Apollo
Variation of Terpsichore
Second Variation of Apollo
Pas de Deux
Dancers: Teresa Reichlen, Adrian Danchig-Waring
Alvin Ailey II
Excerpt from Revelations: Wade in the Water (1960)
Choreography: Alvin Ailey
Music: Traditional. Wade in the Water sequence adapted and arranged by Ella Jenkins.
Costumes by Ves Harper
Dancers: Gabriel Hyman, Courtney Spears, Terri Wright
Armitage Gone! Dance (2007)
Choreography: Karole Armitage
Music: György Ligeti, Excerpts from Sippal, dobbal, nádihegedüvel – With pipes drums and fiddles
(2000); and Harom Weöres-dal – Three Melodies by Weöres (1946-1947)
Costumes: David Salle and Peter Speliopoulos
Dancers: Ahmaud Culver, Megumi Eda
Richard Move
Night Journey (1946)
Choreography: Richard Move
Music: Bernard Hermann
Martha Graham as the Virgin: Richard Move
Dancers: Catherine Cabeen, Katherine Crockett
Luke Hickey with Yusaku Komori
Creation for American Dream Festival
Choreographed and Performed by Luke Hickey (Tap) and Yusaku Komori (Freestyle)
Dresden SemperOper
New Sleep Pas de Deux (1987)
Choreography: William Forsythe
Music: Thom Willems
Dancers: Claudio Canglialosi, Courtney Richardson
Armitage Gone Dance and New York City Ballet
Excerpts from Agon (1957)
Choreography Trio: Karole Armitage
Costumes: Peter Speliopoulos
Choreography Pas de Deux: George Balanchine
Music: Igor Stravinsky, Excerpts from Agon
Pas de Trois: Ahmaud Culver, Megumi Eda, Cristian Laverde Koenig, Izabela Szylinska
Pas de Deux: Teresa Reichlen, Adrian Danchig-Waring
Accademia Nazionale di Danza di Roma
Panorama (1935)
Choreography: Martha Graham
Music: Norman Lloyd, Panorama
Dancers: Accademia Nazionale di Roma
Armitage Gone! Dance
Summertime - Creation for American Dream Festival
Choreography: Karole Armitage
Music: George Gershwin, Summertime with lyrics by Dubose Heyward
Arranged and performed by Billy Stewart
Dancers: Ahmaud Culver, Izabela Szylinska
Agon - Dance
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance
Venue: Royal Festival Hall, London, England
Premiere: May 15, 2016
Music: Igor Srtavinsky, Agon
London Philharmonia Orchestra
Conductor: Esa-Pekka Salonen
Choreography: Karole Armitage
Revival: Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, France
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance
Theater: Grand Théâtre de Provence, Aix-en, Provence, France
July 9, 2016
London Philharmonia Orchestra
Conductor: Esa-Pekka Salonen
Choreography: Karole Armitage
Music: Igor Stravinsky, Agon
Costumes: Peter Speliopoulos
Dancers: Ahmaud Culver, Megumi Eda, William Isaac, Cristian Laverde Koenig, Izabela Szylinska, Emily Wagner
Bitches Brew - Dance
Company: The Boston Ballet
Mikko Nissinen, Director The Boston Ballet
Venue: Boston Opera House, Boston, Massachusetts
Premiere: May 6, 2016
Choreography: Karole Armitage
Music: Miles Davis, Bitches Brew
Costumes: Peter Speliopoulos
Lighting Design: Clifton Taylor
Dancers: Jillian Barrellk Dusty Button, Ji Young Chae, Ashley Ellis, Shelby Elsbree, Emily Entingh, Brett Fukada, Lauren Herfindahl, Misa Kuranaga Lasha Khozashvili, John Lam, Ricardo Santos, Irlan Silva, Brittnay Summer, Addie Tapp, Patrick Yocum
Dance Everywhen – Site Specific Dance
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance with Harvard Dance Students
Jill Johnson, Harvard Dance Director
Venue: Harvard Art Museums Lobby, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Premiere: February 24, 2016
Choreography: Karole Armitage
Music: Stuart Dempster, Excerpts from Underground Overlays from the Cistern Chapel
Dancers: Ahmaud Culver, Megumi Eda with Harvard University Students
GoGo Ballerina (Revision) - Dance
Company: Introdans
Roel Voorintholt, Artistic Director, Introdans
Program ABSOLUUT AMERIKA
Venue: Municipal Theater of Arnhem, Arnhem, Holland
Premiere: February 12, 2016
Performed throughout Holland during 2016
Choreography: Karole Armitage
Music:
Jimi Hendrix, Manic Depression, Moon Turn the Tides, Have you ever been to Electric Ladyland, Wild
Thing, I don’t Live Today, Hey Joe, All Along the Watchtower
Public Enemy, Show em Whatcha Got, Rebel without a Pause (Instrumental)
Set: Jeff Koons.
Costumes: David Salle and Jeff Koons
Dancers: Marc Beaugendre, Vérine Bouwman, Salvatore Castelli, Charlotte de Clerq, Laurnet Drousie, Ricardo Gomes Macedo, Yulanne de Groot, Hayden Idrus, Aaron Kok, Brooke Newman,
Jorge Pérez Martínez, Elisa Rudolf, Pascal Schut, Vincenzo Turiano, Angelica Villalon
2015
Rave - Dance
Company: Introdans Ensemble for Youth
Part of the Introdans program FEEST (PARTY)
Venue: Schouwburg Arnhem, Arnhem, Holland
Introdans premiere: March 7, 2015
Choreography Karole Armitage
Commissioned Music: David Shea
Costumes: Peter Speliopoulos
Skin Color Palette: David Salle
Cast: Ruben Ameling, Aymeric Aude, Giuseppe Calabrese, Melvin Canjels, Charlotte de Clercq, Alexis Geddes, Merel Janssen, Ana Martins Casquilho, Elena Pampoulova, Gido van Ooijen, Rutkay Özpinar, Julia Pereboom, Selina Peterhans, Steven Pinheiro de Almeida, Axelle de Rore, Elisa Rudolf, Vivian Sauerbreij, Mathieu di Scala, Jamy Schinkelshoek, Jurriën Schobben, Dion Slot, Dennis Smit, Demi Verheezen, Alberto Villanueva Rodríguez
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies – Research Fellowship
Karole Armitage Residency
Venue: Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Armitage research on the Kaw, Pawnee and Osage Cultures in what is now, Eastern Kansas.
Simons Fellowship in the Humanities – Research Fellowship
Venue: The University of Kansas, Lawrence Kansas
Armitage research on the Kaw, Pawnee and Osage Cultures in what is now, Eastern Kansas.
BBC 4 - Dance Rebels: A Story of Modern Dance - Documentary Film
Premiere: Dec. 9, 2015 London, England
Documentary film telling the story of the mavericks like Isadora Duncan, Martha Graham, Merce Cunningham and Pina Bausch whose radical ideas created modern dance in the 20th Century. Also
the biggest stars in dance today explain with inspired them to create their own groundbreaking choreography. With contributions from Lea Anderson, Karole Armitage, Boris Charmatz, Michael Clark, William Forsythe, Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker, Akram Khan, Wayne McGregor.
White Lights Festival - Thomas Adès: Concentric Paths – Movements in Music
Company: A Sadler’s Wells London Production with White Lights Festival Lincoln Center and Armitage Gone! Dance
Jane Moss, Director White Lights Festival
Alistair Spaulding, Director Sadler’s Wells Theatre
Venue: New York City Center, New York City
November 20-22, 2015
Life Story
Choreography: Karole Armitage
Music: Thomas Adès, Life Story (1994)
Libretto: Tennessee Williams from In The Winter of Cities
Pianist: Thomas Adès
Soprano: Anna Dennis
Costumes: David Salle
Dancers: Ruka Hatua-Saar White, Emily Wagner
Naked Body Language - Dance Is Time and Gesture Is Meaningless – Phelps Lecture
Julia S. Phelps Annual Lecture in the Arts and Humanities was established to honor the late Julia S. Phelps, longtime instructor in the Radcliffe Seminars.
Radcliffe Fellowship Lecture by Karole Armitage
Venue: Knafel Center, Harvard University, Cambridge Massachusetts
Oct 19, 2015
Through dialogue, video, dance, and discussion, Karole Armitage RI '16 explores how meaning is made in dance without words, plot, or story to explore material from theoretical physics to a personal search for meaning.
Dido and Aeneas – Site Specific Opera
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance and Opera Saratoga with the National Museum of Dance
Lawrence Edelson, Artistic and General Director Opera Saratoga
Raul Martinez, Director National Museum of Dance
Venue: The National Museum of Dance open air courtyard, Saratoga Springs, New York
Premiere: July 6, 2015
Music: Henry Purcell, Dido and Aeneas
Conductor: Nicole Paiement
Director and Choreography: Karole Armitage
Costumes: Peter Speliopoulos
Dido: Jennifer Johnson Cano
Dancers: Ahmaud Culver, Megumi Eda, Cristian Laverde-Koenig, Randall Smith, Izabela Szylinska
Armitage Gone! Dance Costume Exhibition - National Museum of Dance
The Armitage Foundation with The National Museum of Dance
Raul Martinez, Director National Museum of Dance
Venue: National Museum of Dance, Saratoga Springs, New York
May 2015-May 2016
Featuring Costumes: Ne, Slaughter on MacDougal Street, The Watteau Duets, The Mollino Room, The Elizabethan Phrasing of the Late Albert Ayer, The Tarnished Angels, Kammerdisco, Gogo Ballerina pig Jeff Koons, Contempt, Rave, Sonata da Caccia, Ariadne Unhinged, Itutu, Fables on Global Warming,
Orfeo ed Euridice - Opera
Company: San Carlo Opera House
Rosanna Purchia, General Director, Teatro di San Carlo
Venue: Teatro di San Carlo, Naples, Italy
Premiere: May 27, 2015
Music: Christoph Willibald Gluck, Orfeo ed Euridice
Conductor: Francesco Ommassini
Libretto: Ranieri de' Calzabigi.
Direction and Choreography: Karole Armitage
Set: Brice Marden
Costumes: Peter Speliopoulos
Dramaturge: Stefano Paba
Lighting Design: Roberto Venturi
Chorus Director: Marco Faelli
Chorus: Coro di Teatro San Carlo; Chorus of Teatro di San Carlo
Orfeo: Daniela Barcellona / Marina De Liso
Euridice: Cinzia Forte / Alessandra Marianelli
Amore: Giuseppina Bridelli / Aurora Faggioli
Orfeo Dancer: Edmundo Tucci / Ertrugrel Gjoni
Euridice Dancer: Alessandra Veronetti / Roberta De Intinis
Fury Couple: Roberta De Intinis / Sara Sancamillo; Ertrugrel Gjoni / Gianluca Nunziata
Lead Fury: Gianluca Nunziata / Carlo De Martino
Mourners Act 1 Scene 1: Valentina Allevi / Fabio Gison / Marco D’Andrea
Furies Act 2 Scene 1: Grazia Striano, Valentina Valenti / Irene de Rosa, Natalia Mele / Roberta Siciliano, Margherita Provenzano / Luisa Vallozzi, Sara Sancamillo / Luana Damiano, Candida Sorrentino / Rita De Martino, Claudia Bevivino, Valentina Allevi / Fabiana Isoletta, Claudia D’Antonia / Luisa Ieluzzi, Annalina Nuzzo / Daniela Filangeri, Annalisa Casillo / Valeria Iacomino, Vincenza Milazzo / Anna Chiara Amirante, Martina Affaticato, Marco D’Andrea / Pasquale Incoronato, Pasquale Giocometti, Fabio Gison / Danilo Di Leo, Marcello Pepe / Raffaele De Martino, Massimo Sorrentino / Vito Lorusso, Fortunato D’Angelo / Danilo De Martino, Salvatore Manzo / Giovanni Traetto, Stanislao Capissi / Alessandro Staiano, Danilo Notaro / Gianmarco Beoni, Ferdinando De Riso, Giuseppe Aquila, Giuseppe Ciccarelli, Michele Postigione
Act 1I
La Bellezza: Luisa Ieluzzi / Claudia D’Antonio
Partner of La Bellezza: Alessandro Staiano / Stanislao Capissi
Ombre Felice: Ottavia Cocozza / Daniela Filangeri, Valentina Vitale / Irene De Rosa,
Natalia Mele / Roberta Siciliano, Margherita Provenzano, Sara Sancamillo / Rita De Martino, Candida Sorrentino, Fabiana Isoletta, Valentina Allevi, Claudia D’Antonio / Luisa Ieluzzi, Annalina Nuzzo, Annalisa Casillo, Annachiara Amirante / Luisa Vallozzi, Martina Affaticato, Luana Damiano, Vincenza Milazzo, Valeria Iacomino, Grazia Striano, Claudia Bevivino, Marco D’Andrea, Danilo Di Leo, Fabio Gison, Marcello Pepe, Massimo Sorrentino, Giuseppe Ciccarelli, Stanislao Capissi, Salvatore Manzo, Danilo Notaro / Gianmarco Beoni, Ferdinando De Riso, Giuseppe Aquila, Raffaele De Martino, Michele Postiglione, Pasquale Giacometti, Pasquale Incoronato, Vito Lorusso, Danilo de Martino
Coppie Ombre Felice: Valentina Vitale / Grazia Striano, Margherita Provenzano / Vincenza Milazzo, Candida Sorrentino / Valeria Iacomino, Luana Damiano / Annalisa Casillo, Annachiara Amirante / Martina Affaticato, Annalina Nuzzo / Fabiana Isoletta, Marcello Pepe / Ferdinando De Riso, Massimo Sorrentino / Raffaele De Martino, Marco D’Andrea / Giuseppe Aquila, Salvatore Manzo / Michele Postiglione, Danilo Notaro / Vito Lorusso, Giuseppe Ciccarelli / Danilo De Martino
4 Women: Ottavia Cocozza / Claudia Bevivino, Natalia Mele / Roberta Siciliano, Valentina Alevi / Luisa Vallozzi, Annalisa Casillo / Irene De Rosa
Children from la Scuola di Ballo del Teatro di San Carlo diretta da Anna Razzi
On The Nature of Things - Site Specific Dance with Narration
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance with the American Museum of Natural History
Rob DeSalle, American Museum of Natural History Curator
Venue: The Milstein Hall of Ocean Life, The American Museum of Natural History, New York City
Premiere: March 25, 2015
Choreography: Karole Armitage
Original text and live narration: Dr. Paul Ehrlich
Girl Friday: Heather Hawk
Music:
John Luther Adams, Clouds of Forgetting
Philip Glass, Taoist Sacred Dance II
Henryk Gorecki, Good Night Dobra Noc op63
Michael Gordon, Industry, Maya Beaiser Cello
Arvo Part, Fur Alina
Costumes: Capezio
Production Manager: Mark Mongold
Lighting Design: Clifton Taylor
Dancers: Ahmaud Culver, Megumi Eda, Ruka Hatua-Saar, Cristian Laverde-Koenig, Abbey Roesner, Randall Anthony Smith, Izabela Szylinska, Emily Wagner
Guest Dancers: Danielle Abraham, Jack Blackmon, Janae Bonnen, Michelle Brugal, Bérangère Condimines, Kathleen Donachie, Mara Driscoll, Courtney Escoyne, Aurora Fitch, Michael Greenberg, Gabriella Grywalski, Madeline Jafari, Catherine Lazor, Xenia Mansour, Jonathan Matthews, Casie O’Kane, Emma Pajeski, Kira Peterson, Charlotte Rose Settle, Michelle Siegel, Eliza Sherlock-Lewis, Koryn Anne Wicks
Children: Paxton Blake, Sarah Ashley Chicola, Saidie Dolman, Eleanor Grace Feighery, Mabel Runyon, Emilie Sophie Martin Su, Caprice Turchiano, Courtesy Manhattan Youth Ballet
2014
Four Seasons - A Spinning Planet - Dance with Orchestra on Stage
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance with The Little Orchestra Society
James Judd, Artistic Director The Little Orchestra Society
Venue: New York City Center, New York City
Premiere: November 22, 2014
Conductor: James Judd
Costumes and props: Doug Fitch and Peter Speliopoulos
Music:
John Adams, Alleged Dances Movement 1
Samuel Barber, Concerto for flute, oboe, trumpet and orchestra – Allegretto
Copland, Dance Panels – V.; Con Brio, Appalachian Spring As at first (slowly)
Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto No. 1 for Violin and Strings in E Major, "Spring", RV 269: I. Allegro
Concerto for 2 Mandolins Strings & Organ in G Major RV532
Concerto for Strings and Continuo B Minor Allegro R158
Bassoon Concerto #23 In G Minor - 2nd and 3rd movements
Concerto No. 4 for Violin and Strings In F Minor, "Winter", RV 297
Jacques Offenbach, Gaîté Parisienne: II. Tortoni No. 1
Gerhard Richter, Vivaldi Spring 0 and 1; Vivaldi Winter 2
Gioacchino Rossini, William Tell Overture;
Albert Roussel, Résurrection, Op. 4 (Symphonic Prelude after Tolstoy)
Eric Satie, Trois Gymnopedies Lent et Douloureux - Orchestral Version
Dmitri Shostakovich, Polka from the Age of Gold
Costumes: Doug Fitch
Lighting Design: Clifton Taylor
Dancers: Ahmaud Culver, Megumi Eda, Ruka Hatua-Saar, Cristian Laverde-Koenig, Abbey Roesner, Izabela Szylinska, Emily Wagner
Making Art Dance – Exhibition
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance with Mana Contemporary
Jeffrey Deitch, Curator
Venue: Mana Glass Pavilion, Jersey City, New Jersey
December 15, 2014 - March 13, 2015
Making Art Dance celebrates the artists who worked with choreographer Karole Armitage in an exhibition surveying 35 years of collaboration. The exhibition filled 43,400 square feet to display sets, costumes, drawings, and props.
Armitage’s audacious approach to movement declared itself an indispensible part of the landscape of 20th Century Dance at the unveiling of her first punk-inspired work, Ne (1978). Armitage challenged the aesthetic that dominated the downtown dance world, embracing all that was forbidden. She said ‘yes’ to spectacle, virtuosity, glamour, trash imagery, style, raw emotion, eccentricity, and wanting to move and be moved by art. The exhibition honored the invaluable contributions David Salle made to the Armitage Ballet and Armitage Gone! Dance over several decades.
The exhibition featured work by Charles Atlas, Alba Clemente, Carroll Dunham, James Ivory, Karen Kilmnik, Jeff Koons, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Cristian Lacroix, Cristian Marclay, David Salle, Peter Speliopoulos and Philip Taaffe.
Celebration of David Salle’s Contributions to The Armitqge Ballet and Gone! Dance- Exhibition Event
Jeffrey Deitch, Curator
Venue: Mana Glass Pavilion, Jersey City, New Jersey
December 15, 2014
Gala dinner and celebration of Making Art Dance, featuring Armitage Gone! Dance sets, props and costumes from 1978-2014 by artists with a performance by Armitage Gone! Dance featuring Life Story with costumes by David Salle and a sneak preview from On The Nature of Things. The exhibition honored the invaluable contributions David Salle made to the Armitage Ballet and Armitage Gone! Dance over several decades.
Dancers: Ahmaud Culver, Megumi Eda, Ruka Hatua-Saar, Cristian Laverde-Koenig, Abbey Roesner, Izabela Szylinska, Emily Wagner
Thomas Adès: See the Music, Hear the Dance
Company: Sadler’s Wells Theatre with Armitage Gone! Dance
Alistair Spaulding, Artistic Director and Chief Executive Sadler’s Well Theatre
Venue: Sadler’s Wells Theatre, London, England
Oct. 30, 31, Nov. 1, 2014:
Life Story
Choreography: Karole Armitage
Music: Thomas Adès, Life Story (1994)
Piano: Thomas Adès
Soprano: Claire Booth
Libretto: Tennessee Williams from In The Winter of Cities
Costumes: David Salle
Dancers: Ruka Hatua-Saar White, Emily Wagner
Dance and Fashion – Museum Exhibition
Dr. Valerie Steele, Curator
Venue: The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology
September 13, 2014 - January 3, 2015
Exhibition in the Special Exhibitions Gallery presenting Armitage Ballet costumes designed by Christian Lacroix, created in the Paris Opera Costume Atelier.
EMV - Screen Dance
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance
Venue: CUNY University Whitehead Hall, Brooklyn, New York
Filmed May 13, 2014
Choreography: Karole Armitage
Music: Tony Conrad, The Pyre of Angus Was In Kathmandu
Lighting Design: Clifton Taylor
Dancers: Ahmaud Culver, Megumi Eda
2013
Fables on Global Warming – Dance
Fables on Global Warming illustrates myths through dance, music and lyrics derived from Native American Culture, Aesop, and Jean de la Fontaine.
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance and Krannert Center for the Performing Arts
Mike Ross, Artistic and Executive Director Krannert Center for the Performing Arts
Venue: Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, Urbana, Illinois
Premiere: September 24, 2013
Choreography: Karole Armitage
Commissioned Music and Lyrics: Corey Dargel
Musicians:
Big Thicket Hog Nosed Skunk: Cory Dargel. Vocals
Carolina Parakeet: Margaret Lancaster, Flute
Passenger Pigeon: Jen Baker, Trombone
Scientific Consultant: Dr. John Harte, University of California, Berkeley
Dramaturge: Katharina Otto-Bernstein
Costumes and Props: Doug Fitch
Dove Design: Jean-Paul Gaultier
Lighting Design: Joe Doran
Dancers: Ahmaud Culver, Megumi Eda, Daniel LaMont Moore, Cristian Laverde-Koenig, Abbey Roesner, Lourdes Rodriguez, Emily Wagner, Masayo Yamaguchi
A Dancer's Dream - Dance
Company: The New York Philharmonic and Giants Are Small
Alan Gilbert, Artistic Director The New York Philharmonic
Edouard Getaz and Doug Fitch, Directors Giants Are Small
Premiere: June 27, 2013
Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center, New York City
Music:
Durey, Excerpts from Neige (Snow) for Piano Four Hands. Musicians: Eric Hueber, Steve Beck, Piano.
Stravinsky, Le Baiser de la Fee (1928 rev. 1950)
Orchestra: New York Philharmonic
Conductor: Alan Gilbert
Direction: Doug Fitch
Choreography: Karole Armitage
Edouard Getaz: Producer and Video Director
Costume Design: Irina Kruzhilina
Matt Acheson: Master Puppeteer
Makeup Design: Maggie Durand
Lighting Design: Clifton Taylor
Dancers: Sara Means, Amar Ramasar Principle Dancers, Courtesy New York City Ballet
Honorary Doctorate of the Arts – Commencement Ceremony
Karole Armitage and Wendall K. Castle received Honorary Doctorate of the Arts and Wes Jackson, received an Honorary Doctorate of Science at the 141st Commencement Ceremony.
The University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas
May 19, 2013
Energy Made Visible - Dance with Live Saxophone on Stage
Company: Kansas City Ballet
William Whitener, Artistic Director The Kansas City Ballet
Venue: Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts Kansas City, Missouri
Premiere May 3, 2013
Choreography: Karole Armitage
Live Commissioned Music: Composer and Jazz legend, Bobby Watson on Alto Saxophone
Projections: Gilles Papin inspired by Jackson Pollock paintings
Costume Design: Jennifer Carroll
Lighting Design: Kirk Bookman
Dancers: Caroline Arnold, Kaleena Burks, Sarah Chun, Rachel Coats, Marty Davis, Michael Davis, Arielle Espie, Travis Guerin, Craig Hall, Nadia Iozzo, Anthony Krutzkamp, Jill Marlow, Charles Martin, Eric Mazzie, Taryn Mejia, Tempe Ostergren, Logan Pachciarz, Ian Poulis, Yoshiya Sakuri, Angelina Sansone, Molly Wagner, Sarah Wolborn, Laura Wolfe
Mechanics of the Dance Machine - Dance
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance
Venue: New York Live Arts. New York City
Premiere: January 31, 2013.
Choreography: Karole Armitage
Music:
Gabriel Prokofiev: Ten movements from Concerto for Turntables and Orchestra
Craig Leon: Four Eyes to See the Afterlife
Johann Sebastian Bach: excerpt from Keyboard Concerto #1 in D Minor: Adagio
Costume by: Deanna Berg MacLean
Lighting Design by: Clifton Taylor
Dancers: Ahmaud Culver, Megumi Eda, Daniel LaMont Moore, Abbey Roesner, Lourdes Rodriguez, Jeffrey Sousa, Emily Wagner, Masayo Yamaguchi
Armitage Gone! Dance Professional Project Guest Dancers: Victory Chan, Manuela di Martino, Zultari Gomez
2012
Chinati Foundation – Creative Residency
Associate Director: Rob Weiner
Karole Armitage awarded a creative residency in 2012 at the Chinati Foundation, Marfa, Texas
Marie Antoinette (Version 2) - Theater
Company: Yale Repertory Theater and American Repertory Theater
Diane Paulus, Artistic Director American Repertory Theater
Venue: Yale Repertory Theater, Yale University. New Haven, Connecticut
Premiere: October 26, 2012
Written by David Adjmi
Director: Rebecca Taichman
Choreography: Karole Armitage
Scenic Design: Riccardo Hernandez
Costume Design: Gabriel Berry
Lighting Design: Christopher Akerlind
Sound Design: Matt Huybbs
Puppet Deisgn: Matt Acheson
Sheep: David Greenspan
Marie Antoinette: Marin Ireland
Louis XVI: Steven Rattazzi
Axel Fersen: Jake Silbermann
Therese de Lamballe: Polly Lee
Royalist: Vin Knight
Marie’s Coterie: Jo Lampert, Teale Sperling
Guard: Brian Wiles
The Dauphin: Ashton Woerz
Marie Antoinette (Version 1) - Theater
Company: American Repertory Theater and Yale Repertory Theater
Diane Paulus, Artistic Director American Repertory Theater
Venue: American Repertory Theater, Harvard University. Cambridge, Massachusetts
Premiere: September 1, 2012
Written by David Adjmi
Director: Rebecca Taichman
Choreography: Karole Armitage
Scenic Design: Riccardo Hernandez
Costume Design: Gabriel Berry
Lighting Design: Christopher Akerlind
Sound Design: Matt Huybbs
Puppet Design: Matt Acheson
Marie Antoinette: Brooke Bloom
Louis XVI: Steven Rattazzi
Emperor Joseph of Austria/Mr. Sauce: Fred Arsenault
Yolande de Polignac/Mrs. Sauce: Hannah Cabell
Axel Fersen: Jake Silbermann
Therese de Lamballe: Polly Lee
Sheep: David Greenspan
Royalist: Vin Knight
The Dauphin: Andrew Cekala
Marie’s Coterie Jo Lampert, Teale Sperling
WERK! A Dance, Rock, Film and Performance Variety Show
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance
Abrons Art Center, Playhouse Theater, New York City
Premiere May 2, 2012
Lighting Design: Clifton Taylor
Guest Artists: Alvin Ailey School, Kalup Linzy, Doug Fitch Roma!, Aïda Ruilova, William Wegman
Roma!
Stiletto: Lead Vocals
Katana: Guitar, Vocals
Armada: Drums
Vendetta: Bass
Insidia: Keys
Boia: Weapons
Songs:
Don't Let Me Go (Roma!)
Again (Roma!)
Ayo Ayo (Roma!)
Accessories by Lulu Frost and Jeff Koons, Courtesy Armitage Gone! Dance
Hair: Brandy McDonald
Makeup: YuuiVision
Wardrobe: Ansku Heiskanen/Meshku
A Moment of Concern
Performance by Doug Fitch
Music: György Ligeti, Charles Ives and George and Ira Gershwin
Daydream
Inspired by the art of William Wegman
Choreography: Karole Armitage
Weimaraner Dog: Bobbin, Courtesy William Wegman
Featuring: Bobbin and Sean Hilton
Armitage DogGone Dance with Sara Beery, Bennyroyce Royon, Emily Wagner, Jake Warren, Mei-Hua Wang, Marlon Taylor-Wiles, Masayo Yamaguchi
Mmmmmm
By Aida Ruilova with Melanie & Stephanie Hausberger
Costumes: Anya Ferring
Hair: Stella Winkelman
Cockaigne
ACT I: Whipped Cream
Duet for Two Violins
Composer: Caleb Burhans
Dancer/Choreographer: Ruby Valentine
Whipped Cream Girl: Sara Beery, Courtesy Armitage Gone! Dance
Fragrance
IFF, Group President, Fragrances: Nicolas Mirzayantz
IFF, Senior Perfumer: Pascal Gaurin
IFF, Vice President, Flavorist: Maria Wright
ACT II: Cotton Candy
Chippy
Composer: John Zorn
Choreographer: Charles Askegard
Dancers: Carrie Lee Riggins, Miranda Grove, Anna Liceica
Director/Costume Designer/Set Painting: Will Cotton
Costume Construction: Christina Giannini
Make-up, Three Custom Color Specialists: Chad Hayduk
Production Manager: Angela Conant
Film: Conversations WIt De Churen VIII: Notes From A Limerent
Written, Directed, Edited by: Kalup Linzy
Starring: Kalup Linzy, Leo Fitzpatrick, Humberto Petit, and Maya Nettles
Voice Dialogue and Music performed by: Kalup Linzy
Special appearances performed by the following artists themselves: BryN't, Lasto, and Jesse O
Rave
Choreography Karole Armitage
Commissioned Music: David Shea
Costumes: Peter Speliopoulos
Skin Color Palette: David Salle
Armitage Gone! Dancers: Sara Beery, Megumi Eda, Sean Hilton, Abbey Roesner, Bennyroyce Royon, Marlon Taylor -Wiles, Mei-Hua Wang, Jake Warren, Masayo Yamaguchi
Alvin Ailey School Dancers: Cassandra Bowser, Shelby Colona, Mariele di Mauro, Giovanna Gamna, Seth Grier, Samuel Kunzman, Victor LaRue, Gregory Manning, Emily McNeely, Kaitlin Nyuyen, Danielle Reinstein, Or Reitman, Christopher Rentopher, Timothy Stickney, Gage Self, Malik Warlick
Guest Dancer: Charles Askegard
Amaluna - Circus
Company: Cirque du Soleil
Venue: Cirque de Soleil Tent. Montreal, Canada
Premiere: April 19, 2012.
Director: Diane Paulus
Circus Performer Staging: Karole Armitage including Unicycle, Chinese Peacock Dance, Uneven bars, Icarians, Balance Beam, Tightwire, Chinese pole, Straps, etc.
This will have Been: Art. Love and Politics in the 1980s – Museum Exhibition and Performance
Armitage Gone Dance!
Exhibition curated by Helen Molesworth covering 1979-1992
Venue: Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois
Talk: Helen Molesworth, David Salle , Karole Armitage
April 26, 2012
Performances: April 26-28, 2012
Venue: Edlis Neeson Theater, Museum of Contemrporaty Art, Chicago, Illinois
Repertoire performed as part of the exhibition: Drastic-Classicism, The Watteau Duets, GAGA-Gaku
Dancers: Sara Beery, Megumi Eda, Sean Hilton, Abbey Roesner, Bennyroyce Royon, Marlon Taylor-Wiles, Emily Wagner, Mei-Hua Wang, Jacob Michael Warrenn, Masayo Yamaguchi
2011
Armitage Gone! Dance Retrospective Performance and Celebration of Armitage Career- Dance
Armitage Gone Dance with MILANoLTRE
Fiorenzo Grassi, President, MILANoLTRE
Rino De Pace, Director and Programming, MILANoLTRE
Venue: Teatro Elfo Puccini Milan, Italy
Choreographuy: Karole Armitage
Ligeti Essays (2006)
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)
Costumes: Peter Speliopoulos
Lantern Design: David Salle
Light Installation Design: Clifton Taylor
Lighting Design: Clifton Taylor
Dancers
4/10: Sean Hilton, Abbey Roesner, Bennyroyce Royon, Marlon Taylor-Wiles, Mei-Hua Wang, Jake Warren, Masayo Yamaguchi
5/10: Sara Beery, Sean Hilton, Bennyroyce Royon, Marlon Taylor-Wiles, Mei-Hua Wang, Jake Warren, Masayo Yamaguchi
Rave
Music: David Shea
Costumes: Peter Speliopoulos
Lighting Design: Clifton Taylor
Dancers: Sara Beery, Megumi Eda, Sean Hilton, Abbey Roesner, Bennyroyce Royon, Marlon Taylor-Wiles, Emily Wagner, Mei-Hua Wang, Jake Warren, Masayo Yamaguchi
GAGA-Gaku (2011)
Music: Lois V Vierk 五 Guitars and Red Shift
Lighting Design: Clifton Taylor
Costumes: 132 5. ISSEY MIYAKE and Deanna Bird MacLean
Dancers: Sara Beery, Megumi Eda, Sean Hilton, Abbey Roesner, Bennyroyce Royon, Marlon Taylor-Wiles, Emily Wagner, Mei-Hua Wang, Jacob Warren, Masayo Yamaguchi
The Watteau Duets (1985)
Music David Linton, The Simpleton’s Guide to the World’s Greatest Music
Costumes: Peter Speliopoulos
Dancers:
6/10 Abbey Roesner and Marlon Taylor-Wiles
7/10
Emily Wagner Michael and Sean Hilton
Drastic-Classicism (1981/2009)
Music: Rhys Chatham, Drastic Classicism
Costumes: Peter Speliopoulos, Karen Young
Lighting Design: Clifton Taylor
Musicians: Steve Gunn, Andrea Mentesana, Matt Mottel, Marco Nava, Kevin Shea
Dancers: Sara Beery, Megumi Eda, Sean Hilton, Abbey Roesner, Bennyroyce Royon, Marlon Taylor-Wiles, Emily Wagner, Mei-Hua Wang, Jake Warren, Masayo Yamaguchi
Three Theories (2010)
Music: Relativity: Raga Jog: Vilambit Ektaal performed by Sangeeta Shakar, violin, and Ramkumar Misra, tabla; Quantum: original score by Rhys Chatham; String: John Luther Adams, Dark Waves
Lighting Design: Clifton Taylor
Costumes: Deanna Berg MacLean
Dancers: Leonides D. Arpon, Sara Beery, Kristina Bethel-Blunt, Megumi Eda, Sean Hilton, Jarvis McKinley, Abbey Roesner, Bennyroyce Royon, Marlon Taylor-Wiles, Emily Wagner, Mei-Hua Wang, Masayo Yamaguchi
Death and the Powers – Opera
Company: American Repertory Theater, Harvard University and MIT Media Lab
Diane Paulus, Artistic Director American Repertory Theater
Joi Ito, Director MIT Media Lab
Venue: Salle Garnier, Opéra de Monte Carlo, Monte Carlo, Monaco
Premiere: September 24, 2011
Music Tod Machover, Death and the Powers
Conductor: Gil Rose
Libretto: Robert Pinsky
Director: Diane Paulus
Choreography Humans and Robots: Karole Armitage
Costume Design: David C. Wollard
Lighting Design: Donald Holder
Sound Design: Ben Bloomberg
Visual and Software Design: Peter Torpey
Media Design: Matt Chechowski
Simon Powers: James Maddalena
Evvy (third wife): Emily Albrink
Miranda (daughter): Sara Heaton
Nicholas (associate): Hal Cazalet
The United Way: Douglas Dodson
The United Nations: David Kravitz
The Administration: Tom McNichols
The Miseries
Yavni Bar–Yam, Julie Chilton, Rachel Coffin, Maru Colbert, Erin Cole, Pete Cormier, Becki Dennis, Kevin Fennessy, Andrea Foertsch, Lori Forman, Laura Hubbard, Olga Karagiozi, George King, Taya Leary, Diana Librizzi, Emily Lonardo, Meg Di Maggio, Maggie Morio, Rebecca Perry, Matt Phillipps, Oliver L. Saffery, Rebecca Schneebaum, John A. Shane, Bob Stachel, Jeff Q, Julia C. Tenney, Lauren Thomas, Larry Vigus, Amy West, Casey Wright, Alina Wysocki
The Thief - Feature Film
Unrealized musical film shot in Beijing over several months, based on Russian film, The Thief with a creative time from Russia, China and the US.
Canum Productions. Beijing, China
Shot on location around Beijing
Summer and Fall 2011
Director: Elaine Huang
Producer/1st Assistant Director: Robert Lopez
Choreography: Karole Armitage
Dancers: The Beijing Dance Academy
The Exquisite Corpse Project – Exhibition
Curated by David Salle, the Exquisite Corpse Project brings together over 200 artists to create collaborative drawings based on the 1920’s surrealist parlor Game Cadavre Exquise. The project explores the theme of chance encounters, radical juxtaposition and surprise. The project locates the common terrain between drawing, performance art and dance: virtuosity wedded to spontaneity.
Venue: Grasser Gruner Gallery, New York City
October 12- November 6, 2011
Postmodernism: Style and Subversion 1970-1990 - Exhibition
Curators: Glen Adamson, Jane Pavitt
Venue: Victoria and Albert Museum, London England
September 24, 2011-Januaray 15, 2012
MART, Rovereto, Italy
February 25-June 3, 2012
Featuring video of Armitage choreography and Armitage costumes by Jeff Koons and David Salle
Vineyard Arts Project - Dance Residency
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance and Vineyard Arts Project
Ashley Melone, Director Vineyard Arts Project
Venue: Vineyard Arts Project
Showcase: August 27, 2012
Choreography: Karole Armitage
Excerpts from Armitage Gone! Dance Repertoire
Dancers: Sara Beery, Megumi Eda, Sean Hilton, Abbey Roesner, Bennyroyce Royon, Marlon Taylor-Wiles, Emily Wagner, Jacob Michael Warren, Mei-Hua Wang, Masayo Yamaguchi
Un-Easy – Dance
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance and SummerStage NYC
Danni Gee, Artistic Director Summestage
Venue: SummerStage, Central Park, New York City
Premiere: July 15, 2011
Music: Vijay Iyer, Uneasy
Musicians: Vijay Iyer, electric piano; Okkyung Lee, cello; Liberty Ellman, guitar, Kassa Overal, drums
Costume Concept: Doug Fitch
Lighting Design: Hoard Thies
Dancers: Sara Beery, Megumi Eda, Sean Hilton, Abbey Roesner, Bennyroyce Royon, Marlon Taylor-Wiles, Marlon Taylor-Wiles, Jacob Michael Warren, Masayo Yamaguchi
The Cunning Little Vixen - Opera
Company: The New York Philharmonic, Giants Are Small
Alan Gilbert, Artistic Director the New York Philharmonic
Edouard Getaz and Doug Fitch, Directors Giants Are Small
Venue: Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center, New York City
Premiere: June 22, 2011
Music: Leoš Janáček, The Cunning Little Vixen
Conductor: Alan Gilbert
Director: Doug Fitch
Choreography: Karole Armitage
Scenic Design: Doug Fitch and GW Mercier
Costume Design: Doug Fitch
Lighting Design: Clifton Taylor
Singers: Isable Bayrakdarian as the Vixen; Alan Opie as the Forester. Marie Lenormand as Mr. Fox
Metropolitan Opera Children’s Chorus
Ternyka: Emily Wagner, Courtesy Armitage Gone! Dance
GAGA-Gaku - Dance
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance
Venue: The Joyce Theater, New York City
Premiere: April 26, 2011
Music: Lois V Vierk, 五 Guitars and Red Shift
Set: David Salle, Clifton Taylor
Costumes: 132 5. ISSEY MIYAKE and Deanna Bird MacLean
Lighting Design: Clifton Taylor
Dancers: Leonides D. Arpon, Sara Beery, Kristina Bethel-Blunt, Megumi Eda, Sean Hilton, Abbey Roesner, Bennyroyce Royon, Marlon Taylor-Wiles, Emily Wagner, Mei-Hua Wang, Jacob Michael Warren, Masayo Yamaguchi
Guest Dancers: Lourdes Rodriguez, Ingrid Silva, Danielle Thomas, Courtesy Dance Theatre of Harlem
Random Thoughts - Dance
Karole Armitage Special Project
Venue: Alvin Ailey American Dance Center Theater, New York City
Premiere: February 10, 2011
Choreography: Karole Armitage
Music: Burkina Electric
Costumes: Peter Speliopoulos.
Dancer: Courtney Henry
Dancing Exquisite Corpse - Site Specific Dance
A site-specific work for three stages.
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance
Venue: Capitale. New York City
Premiere: February 3, 2011
Choreography: Karole Armitage
Music: Rhys Chatham, György Ligeti, David Linton, Marco Messina, The Sex Pistols, Pytor Illyich Tchaikovsky, Lois V Vierk.
Text by Tennessee Williams performed by Anthony Roth Costanzo
Costumes: Alba Clemente, Deanna Berg MacLean, Issey Miyake, Peter Speliopoulos
Dancers: Leonides D. Arpon, Sara Beery, Kristina Bethel-Blunt, Megumi Eda, Sean Hilton, Abbey Roesner, Bennyroyce Royon, Marlon Taylor-Wiles, Emily Wagner, Mei-Hua Wang, Jacob Michael Warren, Masayo Yamaguchi
Guest Dancers: Lourdes Rodriguez, Ingrid Silva, Danielle Thomas, Courtesy Dance Theatre of Harlem
Fractus – Dance
Reflections Program
Company: The Bolshoi Ballet and Orange County Center for the Performing Arts
Venue: Orange County Center for the Performing Arts. Costa Mesa, California
Premiere: January 20, 2011
Choreography: Karole Armitage
Music: Rhys Chatham, Quantum
Costumes: Igor Chapurin
Dancers: Yekaterina Krysanova, Denis Savin
Fractus – Dance
Company: The Bolshoi Ballet
Venue: The Bolshoi Theater, Moscow, Russia
Moscow Premiere: Jan. 27, 2011
Choreography: Karole Armitage
Music: Rhys Chatham, Quantum
Costumes: Igor Chapurin
Dancers: Yekaterina Krysanova, Denis Savin
Think Africa! - Dance and Lecture
Part of the Armitage Gone Dance Education Series for New York City School children including performance and discussion about dance and how it makes meaning at The Abrons Art Center, Henry Street Settlement.
Jay Wegman, Director Abrons Art Center, Henry Street Settlement
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance
Venue: Abrons Art Center, Henry Street Settlement, Playhouse Theater, New York City
Premiere: January 10. 2011
Panelists: Karole Armitage, Virginia Johnson, Lukas Ligeti, Maï Lingani
Choreography; Karole Armitage
Music: Burkina Electric and Lukas Ligeti from Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
Set and fabric design: Philip Taaffe
Costumes: Peter Speliopoulos
Band Members: Wende K. Blass (Abdoulaye Kouanda), Guitar; Lukas Ligeti, Drums; Maï Lingani, Vocals and Dance; Pyrolator/Kurt Dahlke, Electronics; Vicky Idrissa Kafando, Dance; As (Hugues Zoko), Dance
Dancers: Leonides D. Arpon, Kristina Bethel-Blunt, Sean Hilton, William Isaac, Abbey Roesner, Bennyroyce Royon, Marlon Taylor-Wiles, Emily Wagner, Mei-Hua Wang, Masayo Yamaguchi
2010
Think Theoretical! - Dance Education Performance
Part of the Armitage Gone Dance Education Series for New York City School children including performance and discussion about dance and how it makes meaning at The Abrons Art Center, Henry Street Settlement. Think Theoretical! was geared to high students studying physics.
Jay Wegman, Director Abrons Art Center, Henry Street Settlement
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance
Venue: Abrons Art Center, Henry Street Settlement, Playhouse Theater, New York City
Premiere: November 3, 2010
Panelists: Karole Armitage,
Choreography: Karole Armitage
Excerpts from Three Theories
Music: Relativity: Raga Jog: Vilambit Ektaal performed by Sangeeta Shakar, violin, and Ramkumar Misra, tabla; Quantum: original score by Rhys Chatham; String: John Luther Adams, Dark Waves
Costumes: Deanna Berg MacLean
Lighting: Clifton Taylor
Dancers: Leonides D. Arpon, Sara Beery, Kristina Bethel-Blunt, Megumi Eda, Sean Hilton, Jarvis McKinley, Abbey Roesner, Bennyroyce Royon, Marlon Taylor-Wiles, Emily Wagner, Mei-Hua Wang, Masayo Yamaguchi
Rite of Spring/Summer of Love - Dance
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance
Venue: Salle Garnier, Opéra de Monte Carlo, Monte Carlo, Monaco
Premiere December 15, 2010
Choreography; Karole Armitage
Music: Burkina Electric and Lukas Ligeti from Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
Set and fabric design: Philip Taaffe
Costumes: Peter Speliopoulos
Band Members: Wende K. Blass (Abdoulaye Kouanda), Guitar; Lukas Ligeti, Drums; Maï Lingani, Vocals and Dance; Pyrolator/Kurt Dahlke, Electronics; Vicky Idrissa Kafando Dance; As (Hughes Zoko), Dance
Dancers: Leonides D. Arpon, Kristina Bethel-Blunt, Megumi Eda, William Isaac, Luke Manley, Abbey Roesner, Bennyroyce Royon, Marlon Taylor-Wiles, Emily Wagner, Mei-Hua Wang, Masayo Yamaguchi
Think Punk! - Dance Education Performance
Part of the Armitage Gone Dance Education Series for New York City School children including performance and discussion about dance and how it makes meaning at The Abrons Art Center, Henry Jay Wegman, Director Abrons Art Center, Henry Street Settlement
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance
Venue: Abrons Art Center, Henry Street Settlement, Playhouse Theater, New York City
Premiere: October 17, 2010
Panelists: Karole Armitage, Rhys Chatham, James/Jamie Nares
Choreography: Karole Armitage
Excerpts from The Watteau Duets
Music David Linton, The Simpleton’s Guide to the World’s Greatest Music
Costumes: Peter Speliopoulos
Drastic-Classicism
Music: Rhys Chatham, Drastic Classicism
Dancers: Leonides D. Arpon, Sara Beery, Kristina Bethel-Blunt, Megumi Eda, Sean Hilton, Jarvis McKinley, Abbey Roesner, Bennyroyce Royon, Marlon Taylor-Wiles, Emily Wagner, Mei-Hua Wang, Masayo Yamaguchi
Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical – The Kennedy Center
David Rubenstein, Chairman The Kennedy Center
Michael M. Kaiser, President The Kennedy Center
Venue: Opera House, The Kennedy Center, Washington D.C
October 26- November 21, 2010
Music: Galt MacDermot
Book and Lyrics: Gerome Ragni & James Rado
Director: Diane Paulus
Choreography: Karole Armitage
Music Supervisor: Nadia Digiallonardo
Music Director: David Truskinoff
Scenic Design: Scott Pask
Costume Design: Michael MacDonald
Lighting Design: Kevin Adams
Sound Design: Acme Partners
Diane: Phyre Hawkins
Berger: Steel Burkhardt
Woof: Matt Deangelis
Hud: Darius Nichols
Claude: Paris Remillard
Shelia: Caren Lyn Tackett
Jeanie: Kacie Sheik
Crissie: Kaitlin Kiyan
Mother: Allison Guinn
Dad: Josh Lamon
Principal: Lee Zarrett
Hubert: Josh Lamon
Abraham Lincoln: Lulu Fall
John Wilkes Booth: Lee Zarrett
Buddhahdalirama: Allison Guinn
The Tribe: Shaleah Adkisson, Nicholas Belton, Marshal Kennedy Carolan, Mike Evariste, Lulu Fall, Nkrumah Gatling, Allison Guinn, Josh Lamon, John Moauro, Christine Nolan, Emily Raver-Lalmpman, Cailin Rose, Jen Sese, Lawrence Stallings, Lee Zarrett
Drama Desk Award
Venue: Fiorello LaGuardia High School of Music and Art and Performing Arts Hall at Lincoln Center, New York City
May 18, 2011
Outstanding Choreography Nomination: Karole Armitage for Passing Strange.
Winner Karole Armitage
Three Theories - Dance
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance
Mike Ross, Artistic and Executive Director The Krannert Center for the Performing Arts at the University of Illinois at Urban-Champaign, Illinois
Venue: Tyron Festival Theater
Premiere: April 6, 2010
Music: Prelude: Rhys Chatham, Excerpt from Two Gongs; Relativity: Raga Jog: Vilambit Ektaal performed by Sangeeta Shakar, violin, and Ramkumar Misra, tabla; Quantum: original score by Rhys Chatham; String: John Luther Adams, Dark Waves
Costumes: Deanna Berg MacLean
Lighting Design: Clifton Taylor
Dancers: Leonides D. Apron. Kristina Bethel-Blunt, Megumi Eda, William Isaac, Luke Manley, Abbey Roesner, Bennyroyce Royon, Marlon Taylor-Wiles, Emily Wagner, Mei-Hua Wang. Masayo YamaguchiBrahms on Edge - Dance
Brahms on Edge - Dance
Company: The Washington Ballet
Septime Webre, Director, The Washington Ballet
Venue: The Harmon Center, Washington, D.C.
Premiere: April 14, 2010
Choreography: Karole Armitage
Assistant: David Newman
Music: Johannes Brahms
Costumes: Peter Speliopoulos
Lighting Design: Jerry Bruckerhof
Pianist: Jay Scheier
Mezzo Soprano: Cynthia Hanna
Dancers: Diana Albrect, Amanda Cobb, Jasmine Drwyer, Morgan Frederick, Zachary Hackstock, Rui Huang, Sona Kharatan, Corey Landolt, Brooklyn Mack, Jared Nelson, Andile Ndlovu, Maki Onuki, Alexandra Pera, Jade Payette, Elizabeth Gaither, Durstin Shane, Laura Urgélles, Sarah Walborn, Dylan Ward
Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical – reprise of Broadway 2009 production
Venue: Al Hirschfeld Theater, New York City
Broadway Preview: March 6, 2010
Broadway Opening: March 31, 2010
Music: Galt MacDermot
Book and Lyrics: Gerome Ragni & James Rado
Director: Diane Paulus
Choreography: Karole Armitage
Music Director: Nadia Digiallonardo
Music Coordinator: Seymour Red Press
Scenic Design: Scott Pask
Costume Design: Michael MacDonald
Lighting Design: Kevin Adams
Sound Design: Acme Partners
Diane: Jeanette Bayardelle
Berger: Ace Young
Woof: Jason Wooten
Hud: Wallace Smith
Claude: Kyle Riabko
Shelia: Diana DeGarmo
Jeanie: Annaleigh Ashford
Crissie: Vanessa Ray
Mother: Rachel Bay Jones
Dad: Josh Lamon
Principal: Lee Zarrett
Hubert: Josh Lamon
Abraham Lincoln: Anastacia McCleskey
John Wilkes Booth: Lee Zarrett
Buddhahdalirama: Rachel Bay Jones
The Tribe: Justin Badger, Larkin Bogan, Nathalie Bradshaw, Catherine Brookman, Antwawyn Hopper, Erika Jerry, Rachel Bay Jones, Mykal Kigore, Josh Lamon, Anastacia McCleskey, Paris Remillard, Kate Rockwell, Cailan Rose, Rashidra Scott, Jen Sese, Lawrence Stallings, Terrance Thomas Lee Zarrett
Tony Award
Venue: Radio City Music Hall, New York City
June 7. 2009
Karole Armitage nominated for the Choreography Hair on Broadway. Lost to Billy Elliot.
Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
Karole Armitage Honored by French Government for contribution to the Arts
Venue Ceremony: The Kitchen, New York City
March 2009
Itutu - Dance with live African Pop Band on stage
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance; Commissioned by BAM 2009 Next Wave Festival
Executive Producer BAM Next Wave Festival: Joseph V. Melillo
Venue: Brooklyn Academy of Music, Howard Gilman Opera House, Brooklyn, New York
Premiere: November 4, 2009
Choreography: Karole Armitage
Music: Burkina Electric and Lukas Ligeti from Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
Set and Fabric Design: Phillip Taaffe
Costumes: Peter Speliopoulos
Band Members: Wende K. Blass (Abdoulaye Kouanda), Guitar; Lukas Ligeti, Drums; Maï Lingani, Vocals and Dance; Pyrolator/Kurt Dahlke, Electronics; Vicky Idrissa Kafando, Dance; As (Hughes Zoko), Dance
Set and fabric design: Philip Taaffe
Costumes: Peter Speliopoulos
Lighting Design: Clifton Taylor
Dancers: Leonides D. Apron. Kristina Bethel-Blunt, Megumi Eda, Dana Marie Ingraham, William Isaac, Luke Manley, Abbey Roesner, Bennyroyce Royon, Marlon Taylor-Wiles, Emily Wagner, Mei-Hua Wang. Masayo Yamaguchi
I Mondi di Galileo - Conference. Exhibitions, Performances and Laboratory
Codice Idee per la Cultura
Vittorio Bo, Director Codice Idee per la Cultura
Giancarlo Galan, President, Regione del Veneto
Pasquale Gagliardi, General Secretary Fondazione Giogio Cini and Adminstrator Fondazaione Scuola di San Giorgio
Piero Rafanelli, Diretore del Dipartimento di Astronomia, Università degli Studi di Padova.
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance
Venue: Fondazione Giorgio Ciri
Premiere: September 28, 2009
Panel: Karole Armitage, Dr. Antonio Lacano. Professor, The University of Mexico
Music: Morton Feldman - Patterns in a Chromatic Field (1981)
Costumes: Peter Speliopoulos
Costume Color: David Salle
Lighting Design: Clifton Taylor
Dancers: Leonides D. Arpon, Kristina Bethel-Blunt, Megumi Eda, William Isaac, Luke Manley, Mei-Hua Wang
The Blue Rider - Dance with Mezzosoprano on stage
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance with The Miller Theater
Sarah Rothenberg, Director The Miller Theater
Venue: The Miller Theatre, Columbia University, New York City
Premiere: September 25, 2009
Music: Arnold Schonberg, String Quartet No. 2 performed live by Brentano String Quartet
Lighting and Set Design: Marcus Doshi
Projection Design: Sven Ortel
Susan Naruki: Mezzosoprano
Dancers: Leonides D. Arpon, Kristina Bethel-Blunt, Megumi Eda, William Isaac,
Luke Manley, Bennyroyce Royon, Mei-Hua Wang, Masayo Yamaguchi
It’s Gonna Get Loud – Dance
Company: The Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company
Charlotte Boye-Christensen, Artistic Director, The Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company
Venue: The Rose Wagner Theater. Salt Lake City, Utah
Premiere: September 24, 2009
Choreography: Karole Armitage
Music: Rhys Chatham, Guitar Trio
Dancers: Caine Keenan, Elizabeth Kelley Wilberg, Lehua Estrada, Prentice Witlow, TJ Spaur, Andrea Dispenziere
Made In Naples - Dance
Company: Napoli Teatro Festival with Armitage Gone! Dance
Renato Qualia, Artistic Director Napoli Teatro Festival
Venue: Teatro San Ferdinando, Naples, Italy
Premiere: June 24, 2009
Choreography: Karole Armitage
Music: John Adams, Mongrel Airs; Rhys Chatham in collaboration with Martin Wheeler, Hornithology;
Ensemble Novecento, Monferrina; György Ligeti, Musica Ricercata, Tempo di Valse (Poco Vivace –
L’Orgue de Barbarie, Musica Ricercata, Tempo di Valse (version for piano); Jeffrey Lohn, Duck Dances;
Marco Messina, Tammurriata techno; The Sex Pistols, Anarchy in the UK, Holidays in the Sun; David Shea,
Screwy Squirrel; Carl Stalling, Excerpt from The Good Egg; Igor Stravinksy, Pulcinella Suite, Movement
II Serenata; Excerpt from Tammurriata dei Monti Lattari (Provincia di Napoli), Libera Velo, Mary in
Sfessania a Culo Sbattuto
Colored Wing Curtains: David Salle
Painted Panels: Karen Kilmnik
Costumes and Props: Alba Clemente
Masks: Julianne Kroboth
Lighting Design: Joe Doran
Dramaturge: Stefano Paba
Dancers: Leonides D. Apron. Kristina Bethel-Blunt, Giorgia Bovo, Megumi Eda, Dana Marie Ingraham,
William Isaac, Luke Manley, Abbey Roesner, Bennyroyce Royon, Marlon Taylor-Wiles, Emily Wagner, Mei-Hua Wang. Masayo Yamaguchi
Summer of Love - Dance
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance with Lead commissioning & World Premiere l'E.A.R. Teatro Massimo Vincenzo Bellini di Catania, Italia. World Premiere Teatro Bellini with additional commissioning from Lincoln Center Out of Doors.
Venue: Teatro Bellini. Catania, Italy
Premiere: May 21, 2009
Music: Burkina Electric Band and Lukas Ligeti from Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
Set and fabric design: Philip Taaffe
Costumes: Peter Speliopoulos
Lighting Design: Clifton Taylor, AJ Weisbard
Band Members: Wende K. Blass (Abdoulaye Kouanda), Guitar; Lukas Ligeti, Drums; Maï Lingani, Vocals and Dance; Pyrolator/Kurt Dahlke, Electronics; Vicky Idrissa Kafando, Dance; As (Hugues Zoko), Dance
Dancers: Leonides D. Arpon, Kristina Bethel-Blunt, Giorgia Bovo. Matthew Branham, Frances Chiaverini, Megumi Eda, Dana Marie Ingraham, William Isaac, Luke Manley, Abbey Roesner, Bennyroyce Royon, Masayo Yamaguchi
Arctic Song - Dance
Company: Kansas City Ballet
William Whitener, Director Kansas City Ballet
Venue: The Lyric Theater, Kansas City, Missouri
Premiere: May 7, 2009
Music: Einojuhani Rautavaara, Cantus Articus
Costumes: Lily Walker
Lighting Design: Kirk Bookman
Dancers: Rachel Coats, Lisa Choules, Stacy Comparo, Stacey Cooney, Kimberly Cowen, Deanna Doyle, Aisling Hill-Connor, Nadia Iozzo, Geoffrey Kropp, Danny Ryan, Aneglina Sasone, Breanna Starke, Laura Wolfe
Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical - Broadway Musical
New York Shakespeare Festival
Broadway Premiere: March 31, 2009
Venue: Al Hirschfeld Theater, New York City
Music: Galt MacDermot
Book and Lyrics: Gerome Ragni & James Rado
Director: Diane Paulus
Choreography: Karole Armitage
Music Director: Nadia Digiallonardo
Music Coordinator: Seymour Red Press
Scenic Design: Scott Pask
Costume Design: Michael MacDonald
Lighting Design: Kevin Adams
Sound Design: Acme Partners
Diane: Jeanette Bayardelle
Berger: Ace Young
Woof: Jason Wooten
Hud: Wallace Smith
Claude: Kyle Riabko
Shelia: Diana DeGarmo
Jeanie: Annaleigh Ashford
Crissie: Vanessa Ray
Mother: Rachel Bay Jones
Dad: Josh Lamon
Principal: Lee Zarrett
Hubert: Josh Lamon
Abraham Lincoln: Anastacia McCleskey
John Wilkes Booth: Lee Zarrett
Buddhahdalirama: Rachel Bay Jones
The Tribe: Justin Badger, Larkin Bogan, Nathalie Bradshaw, Catherine Brookman, Antwawyn Hopper, Erika Jerry, Rachel Bay Jones, Mykal Kigore, Josh Lamon, Anastacia McCleskey, Paris Remillard, Kate Rockwell, Cailan Rose, Rashidra Scott, Jen Sese, Lawrence Stallings, Terrance Thomas Lee Zarrett
Drastic-Classicism (1981, revised 2009) - Dance with live electric guitars and drums on stage
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance
Venue: The Kitchen, New York City
Premiere: March 4, 2009
Original Score: Rhys Chatham
Music Director: John King
Musicians: Paul Duncan, Tom Gerke, Steven Gunn, Sarah Lipstate (Guitars); Kevin Shea (Drums)
Costumes: Peter Speliopoulos and Karen Young
Lighting Design: Clifton Taylor
Dancers: Leonides D. Arpon, Kristina Bethel-Blunt, Giorgia Bovo, Megumi Eda, William Isaac, Dana Marie Ingraham, Luke Manley, Matthew Prescott, Abbey Roesner, Bennyroyce Royon, Masayo Yamaguchi
The Watteau Duets (1985, revised 2009) - Dance with live music and performance on stage
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance
Venue: The Kitchen, New York City
Premiere: March 4, 2009
Original Score: David Linton, The Simpleton’s Guide to the World’s Greatest Music
Musicians: Talibam: Matt Mottel and Kevin Shea
Costumes: Charles Atlas and Peter Speliopoulos
Lighting Design: Clifton Taylor
Dancers: Megumi Eda with Luke Manley; Dana Marie Ingraham with Bennyroyce Royon
Wild Thing (revival) - Dance
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance
Venue: The Kitchen, New York City
Premiere: March 4, 2009
Music: Jimi Hendrix, Wild Thing
Set: Jeff Koons
Costumes: David Salle
Lighting Design: Clifton Taylor
Bodyguards: Josh Lubin-Levy, Tim Wildin
Dancers: Kristina Bethel-Blunt with Matthew Prescott; Dana Marie Ingraham with Leonides D. Arpon
Mashup - Dance
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance
Venue: The Kitchen, New York City
Premiere: March 4, 2009
Original Score: Daniel Iglesia
Costumes: Peter Speliopoulos
Lighting Design: Clifton Taylor
Dancers: Leonides D. Arpon, Kristina Bethel, Megumi Eda, Dana Ingraham, William Isaac, Luke Manley, Matthew Prescott, Abbey Roesner, Bennyroyce Royon, Masayo Yamaguchi
Passing Strange – Feature Film
Sundance Film Festival
Premiere: January 16, 2009
Director: Spike Lee
Books and lyrics: Stew
Music: Stew & Heidi Rodewald
Directed by and Created in Collaboration with Annie Dorsen
Choreography: Karole Armitage
Scenic Design: David Korins
Costume Design: Elizabeth Hope Clancy
Lighting Design: Kevin Adams
Sound Design: Tony Smolenski IV
Choreography: Karole Armitage
Musical Director: Heidi Rodewald
Musical Supervisor: Jon Spurney
Musicians: Christian Cassan (Drums), Marc Doten (Bass), Christian Gibbs (Guitar, Keyboards, Backing Vocals), Bass/Vocals Heidi Rodewald, Jon Spurney (Guitar, Keyboards, Backing Vocals), Stew (Narrator, Lead Guitar)
Cast: De'Adre Aziza, Daniel Breaker, Eisa Davis, Colman Domingo, Chad Goodridge,
Rebecca Naomi Jones
2008
Drama Desk Award
LaGuardia Concert Hall at Lincoln Center, New York City
May 18, 2008
Winner Outstanding Choreography Passing Strange on Broadway. Karole Armitage
Between the Clock and the Bed - Dance
Company: Bern Ballett
Program Kylian/Armitage/Marston
Ballet Director Stadttheater Bern: Cathy Marston
Venue: Stadttheater Bern, Switzerland
Premiere: Nov 1, 2008
Music: Leos Janacek, Suita
Set and Costumes: Julia Hanson
Lighting: Jon Clark
Dancers: Hui-Chen Tsai, Emma Lewis, Jenny Tattersall, Martina Langmann
Paula Alonso, Izumi Shuto, Emma Murray, Gary Marshall, Erick Guillard, Ihsan Rustem, Denis Puzanov, Erion Kruja, Chien-Ming Chang
Hair: The American Tribal Love - Rock Musical- Shakespeare in the Park
Produced by The Public Theater
Artistic Director, Oskar Eustis, Executive Director, Mara Manus
Venue: The Delacorte Theater Central Park, New York City
Premiere: July 22, 2008
Music by Galt MacDermot
Book and Lyrics by Gerome Ragni & James Rado
Directed by Diane Paulus
Choreography by Karole Armitage
Music Supervisor: Rob Fisher
Music Director/Conductor/Keyboard: Nadia Digiallonardo
Music Coordinator: Seymour Red Press
Scenic Design: Scott Pask
Costume Design: Michael MacDonald
Lighting Design: Michael Chybowski
Sound Design: Acme Sound Partners
Psychedelic Art: The Joshua Light Show
Diane: Jeanette Bayardelle
Berger: Will Swenson
Woof: Bryce Ryness
Claude: Jonathan Groff
Hud: Darius Nichols
Shelia: Caren Lyn Manuel
Dionne: Patina Renea Miller
Jeanie: Kacie Sheik
Crissie: Allison Case
Mother: Megan Lawrence
Father/Margaret Mead: Andrew Korber
White Boys Trio: Nicole Lewis, Saycon Sengbloh
Black Boys Trio: Jackie Burns, Kaitlyn Kiyan, Megan Reinking
The Tribe: Ato Blankson-Wood, Steel Burkhart, Lauren Elder, Allison Guinn, Anthony Hollock, Kaitlin Kiyan, John M. Moauro, Brandon Pearson, Paris Remillard, Maya Sharpe, Theo Stockman, Tommar Wilson
Summer of Love (open air preview) - Dance
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance
Venue: Damrosch Park, Lincoln Center, New York City
Premiere: August 8, 2008
Music: Burkina Electric Band and Lukas Ligeti from Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
Costumes: Peter Speliopoulos
Band Members: Wende K. Blass (Abdoulaye Kouanda), Guitar; Lukas Ligeti, Drums; Maï Lingani, Vocals and Dance; Pyrolator/Kurt Dahlke, Electronics; Vicky Idrissa Kafando, Dance; As (Hugues Zoko), Dance
Dancers: Leonides D. Arpon, Erin Barnett, Kristina Bethel-Blunt, Matthew Branham, Frances Chiaverini, Megumi Eda, Zack Ingram, Dana Marie Ingraham, William Isaac, Ryan Kelly, Abbey Roesner, Masayo Yamaguchi
The Elegant Universe (work in progress) - Dance
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance with Works and Process Guggenheim Museum and The World Science Festival
Works and Process Guggenheim Museum Director and Founder, Mary Sharp Cronson
Co-Founder and Chairman, The World Science Festival Director, Brian Greene
Venue: The Guggenheim Museum, Peter B. Lewis Theater, New York City
Premiere: May 30, 2008
Choreography: Karole Armitage
Scientific Advisor: Dr. Brian Greene
Panelists: Karole Armitage, Dr. James Gates (Jim Gates), Dr. Brian Greene, Lukas Ligeti
Commissioned Music: Lukas Ligeti
Musicians: Marco Cappelli, Guitar; Ha-Yang Kim, Cello; Lukas Ligeti, Marimba and Electronics
Costumes: Peter Speliopoulos
Dancers: Leonides D. Arpon, Matthew Branham, Frances Chiaverini, Megumi Eda, William Isaac, Mei-Hua Wang
Guest Dancers: Leah Barsky, Giorgia Bovo, Kristin Drucker, Meredith Fages, Rie Kiyomiya, Jennifer, Luke Manley, Rachel McLaren Adele LeRoi Nickel, Ally Taylor Sacks, Jenny Sandler, Masayo Yamaguchi
Ariadne Unhinged - Opera
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance with Gotham Chamber Opera
Artistic Director: Neal Goren; Managing Director: David Bennett
Venue: Abrons Art Center, New York City
Premiere: May 7, 2008
Music: Monteverdi, Lamento d’Arianna
Haydn, Arianna a Naxos
Schoenberg, Pierrot Lunaire
Conductor: Neal Goren
Chamber Orchestra: Christopher Collins Lee, Violin and Viola; Andrey Tchekmazov, Cello; Sato Moughalian, Flute and Piccolo; Benjamion Fingland, Clarinet and Bass Clarinet; William Hobbs, Piano; Daniel Swenberg, Theorbo
Direction & Choreography: Karole Armitage
Set: Vera Lutter
Props: Donald Baechler
Costumes: Peter Speliopoulos
Lighting Design: Clifton Taylor
Soprano: Emily Langford Johnson alternating with Brenda Patterson
Dancers: Matthew Branham, Frances Chiaverini, Megumi Eda, William Isaac, Ryan Kelly, Mei-Hua Wang
PowerSurge - Dance
Company: University of Kansas Dance Company
Venue: The Lied Center
Premiere: April 18, 2008
Choreography: Karole Armitage
Music: Phillip Glass, Mishima performed by the Kronos Quartet
Dancers: Ali Ainsworth, Nora Burt, Annie Frazier, Erin Goodnan, Beau Hancock, Deanna Doyle Hodges, Mary Sheldon, Amanda Shirwise, Jordan Wright
Orfeo ed Euridice - Opera
Company: San Carlo Opera House
Stéphane Lissner, Artistic and General Director
Venue: Teatro di San Carlo, Naples, Italy
Premiere: April 3, 2008.
Music: Christoph Willibald Gluck, Orfeo ed Euridice
Conductor: Leopold Hager
Libretto: Ranieri de' Calzabigi
Direction and Choreography: Karole Armitage
Set: Brice Marden
Costumes: Peter Speliopoulos
Dramaturge: Stefano Paba
Lighting Design: Roberto Venturi
Chorus Director: Marco Ozbic
Ballet Director: Anna Razzi
Chorus: Coro di Teatro San Carlo; Chorus of Teatro di San Carlo
Orfeo: Daniela Barcellona
Euridice: Carmela Remigio
Amore: Rachel Harnish / Anna Chierichetti
Orfeo Dancer: Edmundo Tucci / Alessandro Macario
Euridice Dancer: Alessandra Veronetti / Roberta De Intinis
La Bellezza: Giovanna Spalice / Corona Paone
Partner of La Bellezza: Alessandro Macario / Luigi Ferrone
Fury Couple: Roberta De Intinis / Elisabetta Magliulo; Francesco Volpe / Fabbio Gison
Lead Fury: Marco Spizzica / Gianluca Nunziata
Mourners Act 1 Scene 1: Maria Rosaria Cavuoto/ Sabrina Corcione / Giorgia Cappeli / Carla Copolla
Diego Watzke /Vittorio Manzoni / Simone Vallese / Fortunato D’Angelo
Furies Act 2 Scene 1: Maria Amoruso, Giordana Maura, Loredana Conte, Giorgia Cappelli, Ottavia di Montanara, Marisa Cerbino, Margherita Provenzano, Sara Sancamillo, Marina Nossova, Carla Coppola, Valentina Allevi, Alessandra Carloni, Fortunato D’Angelo, Marcello Pepe, Vittorio Mazzoni, Massimo Sorrentino, Gianluca Nunziata / Marco Spizzica, Leonardo Schiavella, Fabrizio Esposito, Marco D’Andrea, Fabio Gison / Raffaelle di Martino, Simone Vallese, Vito Lorusso, Vito Conversano
Ombre Felice Act 2 Scene 2: Natalia Mele, Anna Gaiao, Sara Sancamillo, Maria Rosaria Cavuoto, Marina Nossova, Giordana Maura, Giorgia Cappelli, Maria Amoruso, Ottavia Di Montanara, Loredana Conte, Alessandra Carloni, Sabrina Corcione, Valentina Allevi, Giulia di Stefano, Carla Coppola, Margherita Provenzano, Adriana Pappalardo, Silvia Chella, Luca Carano, Simone Vallese, Marcello Pepe, Gianluca Nunziata, Marco Spizzica, Leonard Schiavella, Diego Watzke, Fabio Gison, Raffaele De Martino, Marco D’Andrea, Fabrizio Esposito, Massimo Sorrentino, Vittorio Manzoni, Fortunato D’Angelo, Pasquale Incoronato, Vito Lorusso, Vito Conversano
Act 2 Scene 3: Children from la Scuola di Ballo del Teatro di San Carlo diretta da Anna Razzi
Passing Strange - Broadway Musical
Venue: Belasco Theater, New York City
Premiere: February 28, 2008
Books and lyrics: Stew
Music: Stew & Heidi Rodewald
Directed by and Created in Collaboration with Annie Dorsen
Choreography: Karole Armitage
Scenic Design: David Korins
Costume Design: Elizabeth Hope Clancy
Lighting Design: Kevin Adams
Sound Design: Tony Smolenski IV
Choreography: Karole Armitage
Musical Director: Heidi Rodewald
Musical Supervisor: Jon Spurney
Musicians: Christian Cassan (Drums), Marc Doten (Bass), Christian Gibbs (Guitar, Keyboards, Backing Vocals), Bass/Vocals Heidi Rodewald, Jon Spurney (Guitar, Keyboards, Backing Vocals), Stew (Narrator, Lead Guitar)
Cast: De'Adre Aziza, Daniel Breaker, Eisa Davis, Colman Domingo, Chad Goodridge,
Rebecca Naomi Jones
Connoisseurs of Chaos - Dance
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance
Venue: The Joyce Theater, New York City
Premiere: January 22, 2008
Choreography: Karole Armitage
Music: Morton Feldman - Patterns in a Chromatic Field (1981)
Musicians: Felix Fan, Cello; Andrew Russo, Piano
Set: David Salle
Costumes: Peter Speliopoulos
Costume Colors: David Salle
Lighting Design: Clifton Taylor
Dancers: Leonides D. Arpon, Matthew Branham, Frances Chiaverini, Megumi Eda, William Isaac, Mei-Hua Wang
2007
Hair: The American Tribal Love - Rock Musical- Shakespeare in the Park
Produced by The Public Theater
Artistic Director, Oskar Eustis, Executive Director, Mara Manus
The 40th Anniversary Concert Performance
Venue: The Delacorte Theater Central Park, New York City
Premiere: September 22, 2007
Music by Galt MacDermot
Book and Lyrics by Gerome Ragni & James Rado
Directed by Diane Paulus
Choreography by Karole Armitage
Music Supervisor: Rob Fisher
Music Director/Conductor/Keyboard: Nadia Digiallonardo
Music Coordinator: Seymour Red Press
Scenic Design: Scott Pask
Costume Design: Michael MacDonald
Lighting Design: Michael Chybowski
Sound Design: Acme Sound Partners
Psychedelic Art: The Joshua Light Show
Diane: Jeanette Bayardelle
Berger: Will Swenson
Woof: Bryce Ryness
Claude: Jonathan Groff
Hud: Darius Nichols
Shelia: Karen Olivo
Dionne: Patina Renea Miller
Jeanie: Kacie Sheik
Crissie: Allison Case
Mother: Megan Lawrence
Father/Margaret Mead: Andrew Korber
White Boys Trio: Nicole Lewis, Saycon Sengbloh
Black Boys Trio: Jackie Burns, Alison Porter, Megan Reinking
The Tribe: Ato Blankson-Wood, Steel Burkhart, Lauren Elder, Allison Guinn, Anthony Hollock, Kaitlin Kiyan, John M. Moauro, Brandon Pearson, Paris Remillard, Maya Sharpe, Theo Stockman, Tommar Wilson
Gran Partita – Dance
Company: Rambert Dance Company
Mark Baldwin, Artistic Director Rambert Dance Company
Venue: Sadler’s Wells Theatre London, England
Premiere May 26, 2007
Choreography: Karole Armitage
Music: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Serenade No. 10 in B-flat Major, K. 361 (Gran Partita)
Orchestra: London Musici, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 basset horns, 2 bassoons, 4 horns, double bass
Conductor: Paul Hoskins
Design: Jean Marc Puissant
Lighting Design: Giuseppe di Lorio
Dancers: Lucila Alves, Clara Barberá, Eryck Brahmania, Kirill Burlov, Malgorzata Dzierzon, Dane Hurst, Martin Joyce, Cameron McMillan, Pieter Symonds, Angela Towler, Alexander Whitley
Passing Strange – Musical
Developed at the Stanford Institute for Creativity and the Arts and Berkeley Repertoire Theater
Tony Taccone, Artistic Director Berkeley Repertoire Theater
Venue: Anspacher Theater, The Public Theater, NYC
Premiere: May 14, 2007
Books and Lyrics: Stew
Music: Stew and Heidi Rodewald
Directed and created in collaboration with Annie Dorsen
Choreography Karole Armitage
Scenic Design: David Korins
Costume Design: Elizabeth Hope Clancy
Lighting Design: Kevin Adams
Sound Design: Tony Smolenski IV
Choreography: Karole Armitage
Musical Director: Heidi Rodewald
Musical Supervisor: Jon Spurney
Musicians: Stew (Narrator, Keys, Lead Guitar, Vocals), Heidi Rodewald (Bass, Vocals),
Christian Cassin (Drums), Marc Dote (Bass), Jon Spurney (Guitar, Keyboards)
Cast: De'Adre Aziza, Daniel Breaker, Eisa Davis, Colman Domingo, Chad Goodridge,
Rebecca Naomi Jones
Gathering His Thoughts - Dance
Company: The Washington Ballet
Septime Webre, Artistic Director The Washington Ballet
Venue: England Studio Theatre, Washington, DC
Premiere: May 1, 2007
Choreography: Karole Armitage
Music: Hamlet soliloquy performed by Richard Burton with music by Daniel Iglesia
4 Male Dancers: Jared Nelson, Chip Coleman, Rania Du, and Aaron Jackson
Ligeti Essays (Songs and Instrumental music) - Dance
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance
Venue: Joyce Theater, New York City
Premiere: February 6, 2007
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
Lantern Design: David Salle
Light Installation Design: Clifton Taylor
Costume Design: David Salle and Peter Speliopoulos
Lighting Design: Clifton Taylor
Dancers: Leonides D. Arpon, Matthew Branham, Frances Chiaverini, Megumi Eda, William Isaac, Mei-Hua Wang
Guest Dancers: Ryan Kelly, Scott Rink, Masayo Yamaguchi
The Double Life of Zefirino – Stage Production and Documentary Film
Cannes Film Festival
Film Director: Gerardo Puglia
Music: Handel, Gluck, Pergolesi, Vivaldi
Conductor: Michael Pratt
Director: Karole Armitage
Dramturge: Stefano Paba
Set: Andrea Branzi
Costumes: James Ivory
Lighting Design: Aaron Coop
Countertenor: Anthony Roth Costanzo
Dancers: Ryan Kelly, Collin Mysliwiec
Fendi celebrates Armitage Gone Dance – Fashion Show
Fendi Spring Summer Runway Collection modeled by Armitage Gone! Dancers
Venue: Fendi Store, New York City
January 16, 2007
Dancers: Leonides D. Arpon, Matthew Branham, Frances Chiaverini, Megumi Eda, William Isaac, Mei-Hua Wang
2006
Gamelan Gardens – Dance
Company: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
Judith Jamison, Artistic Director, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
Venue: New York City Center, New York City
Premiere: December 1, 2006
Music: Lou Harrison, Double Concerto for Violin, Cello, with Javanese Gamelan
Set: David Salle and EJ Corrigan
Costumes: Peter Speliopoulos
Lighting Design: Clifton Taylor
Dancers: Dwana Adiaha Smallwood, Clifton Brown, Linda Celeste Sims, Asha Thomas, Rosalyn Deshauteurs, Hope Boykin, Gwynenn Taylor Jones, Mathew Rushing, Jamar Roberts, Antonio Douthit, Kiven J. Boyd, Malik Le Nost
Scenes from A Country Bunny - Dance with Narration
Merchant Ivory Development Stage Production with The Charleston Concert Association
Ismail Merchant producer Merchant Ivory Producitons
Jason A. Nichols, Executive Director The Charleston Concert Association
July 2006, Charleston, South Carolina, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Sugar Hill Harlem, New York City
Choreography: Karole Armitage
Music: Richard Robbins
Story: Maya Angelou based on a story by DuBose Heyward, Country Bunny and the Little Gold Shoes
Lighting Design: Allen Lee Hughes
Dancers: William Isaac, Natalia Johnson
Visual Brainstorming - Dance
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance with Works and Process, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City
Works and Process Guggenheim Museum Director and Founder, Mary Sharp
Venue: The Guggenheim Museum, Peter B. Lewis Theater, New York City
Program: Tour de Force
Premiere: March 26, 2006
Panel: Karole Armitage, Gia Kourku (Moderator), Peter Phillips, Brian Reeder, George Steel (Moderator)
Choreography: Karole Armitage
Music: Gérard Pesson, Mes Béatitudes
Ensemble Alternance: Jacques Ghestem, niolin; Pierre-Henri Xiereb, viola; Raphaël Chétien, violincello; Dimitri Vassilakis, piano
Costumes: Peter Speliopoulos
Lighting Design: Brian Sciarra
Dancers: Leonides D. Arpon, Brian Carey Chung, Megumi Eda, Theresa Ruth Howard, William Isaac
Cantus Articus (Workshop) – Dance
Company: NYU Students: Second Avenue Dance Company
Venue: NYU Tisch School of the Arts Theater, New York City
Premiere: March 30, 2006
Choreography: Karole Armitage
Music: Einojuhani Rautavaara, Cantus Articus, Concerto for Birds and Orchestra
Costume Design: Amanda Buja
Lighting Design: Dans Sheehan
Dancers: 11 Women en pointe: Rebecca Breau, Brittany Browning, Erin Chislin, Na-Ye Im. Jennifer Roit, Amy Schulster, Katelyn Skelley, Jenny Stahl, Stefanie Truppi, Meagan Vincent, Jan Vorburger
2005
In this dream that dogs me - Dance
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance with The Duke on 42nd Street Theater
Cora Cahan, President The Duke on 42nd Street Theater
Venue: The Duke on 42nd Street Theater New York City
Premiere: November 30, 2005
Choreography: Karole Armitage
Commissioned Music: Annie Gosfield
Musicians: Felix Fan (cello), Annie Gosfield (sampler), Roger Kleier (guitar), Danny Tunick (percussion)
Set: David Salle
Costumes: Peter Speliopoulos
Sound Design: Jody Elf
Lighting Design: Aaron Copp
Dancers: Leonides D. Arpon, Brian Carey Chung, Megumi Eda, Theresa Ruth Howard,
William Isaac
Guest Dancers: Brea Cali, Sarah Laporte Folger, Rachel McLaren, Anthony Smith, Chremene Yap, Zack Winokur, Masayo Yamaguchi
Pigmalion – Opera
Festival des Region, Théâtre de Châtelet
Jean-Luc Choplin, Artistic Director Théâtre de Châtelet
Laurent Spielmann, Artistic Director Opéra de Nancy and de Lorraine
Didier Deschamps, Artistic Director Ballet de Lorraine
Venue: Théâtre de Châtelet Paris, France
June 12-15, 2005
Music: Jean-Philippe Rameau, Pigmalion
Music Ensemble and Chorus: Le Concert Spirituel
Conductor: Hervé Niquet.
Direction and Choreography: Karole Armitage
Set: David Salle
Costumes: Peter Speliopoulos
Dramaturge: Stefano Paba
Pygmalion: Cyril Auvity
Amour: Magali Léger
Céphise: Valérie Gabail
La Statue: Cassandre Berthon
Dancers: Bulat Akhmejnov, Pierrre-François Badoud, Laure Barreault, Amandine Biacherin, Jennifer Blasek, Grégory Beaumont, Christophe Béranger, Larissa Boutenko, Ludivine Cornière, Simon Courchel, Grégory Deglane, Dmitri Domojirov, Julien Ficely, Miroslaw Gordon, Alexis Gutierrez-Wosylus, Marie-Séverine Hourteloup, William Isaac, Alexandre Jourdeuil, Gilles Kanert, Nina Khohkam, Valérie Li-Cuong, Aurore Longère, Anastasia Nedelocheva, Juliette Mignot, Joris Perez, Ligia Saldanha, Axelle Trinchero, Florence Viennot
Ligeti Essays (Songs) – Dance
Company: Ballet de Lorraine
Didier Deschamps, Artistic Director Ballet de Lorraine
Karole Armitage, Resident Choreographer Ballet de Lorraine
Venue: Centre Malraux Vandoeuvres, France
Premiere: March 31, 2005
Music: György Ligeti
Set Design: David Salle
Lantern Design: David Salle
Light Installation Design: Clifton Taylor
Costume Design: David Salle and Peter Speliopoulos
Lighting Design: Clifton Taylor
Dancers:
The White Countess – Feature Film
Merchant Ivory Productions
Ismail Merchant, Producer
Filmed 2004 the Bund, Shanghai Film Studios, Chedun Park, etc Shanghai, China
Director: James Ivory
Screenplay: Kazuo Ishiguro
Music: Richard Robbins
Production Design: Andrew Sanders
Cinematographer: Chris Doyle
Costume Design: John Bri9ght
Choreography: Karole Armitage
Cast: Ralph Fiennes, Vanessa Redgrave, Hiroyuki Sanada, Lynn Redgrave, Allen Corduner, Madeleine Potter
Columbine: Hong Lan Hou
Harlequin: Kyle Rothstein
Pulchinello: David Sutton
Pierrot: Thomas Hernell
Cat and Monkey Dancers: Kimbo, Violaine Motte
2004
Pigmalion – Opéra–Ballet
Company: Opéra de Nancy and de Lorraine and Ballet de Lorraine
Laurent Spielmann, Artistic Director Opéra de Nancy and de Lorraine
Isabelle Masset, Artistic Advisor Opéra de Nancy and de Lorraine
Didier Deschamps, Artistic Director Ballet de Lorraine
Karole Armitage, Resident Choreographer Ballet de Lorraine
Venue: Opéra de Nancy and de Lorraine, Nancy, France
Dates of Performance: Dec. 17- Dec. 31, 2004
Music Ensemble and Chorus: Le Concert Spirituel
Conductor: Hervé Niquet.
Direction and Choreography: Karole Armitage
Set: David Salle
Costumes: Peter Speliopoulos
Dramaturge: Stefano Paba
Pigmalion: Cyril Auvity
Amour: Magali Léger
Céphise: Valérie Gabail
La Statue: Cassandre Berthon
Music: Jean-Philippe Rameau, Pigmalion
Direction and Choreography: Karole Armitage
Set: David Salle
Costumes: Peter Speliopoulos
Dramaturge: Stefano Paba
Dancers: Bulat Akhmejnov, Pierrre-François Badoud, Laure Barreault, Amandine Biacherin, Jennifer Blasek, Grégory Beaumont, Christophe Béranger, Larissa Boutenko, Ludivine Cornière, Simon Courchel, Grégory Deglane, Dmitri Domojirov, Julien Ficely, Miroslaw Gordon, Alexis Gutierrez-Wosylus, Marie-Séverine Hourteloup, William Isaac, Alexandre Jourdeuil, Gilles Kanert, Nina Khohkam, Valérie Li-Cuong, Aurore Longère, Anastasia Nedelocheva, Juliette Mignot, Joris Perez, Ligia Saldanha, Axelle Trinchero, Florence Viennot
10 Poems - Dance
Company: ABCDance Company
Nicolas Musin, Artistic Director ABCDance Company
Venue: Festpiel Haus St. Pölten, St. Pölten, Austria
Premiere: May 27, 2004
Music: György Ligeti, Sippal, dobbal, nádihegedüvel – With pipes drums and fiddles (2000);
Harom Weöres-dal – Three Melodies by Weöres (1946-1947);
Costumes: Peter Speliopoulos
Lighting Design: Lukas Kaltenbäck
Dancers: Hanna Ahta, Erika Bouvard, Maxime Lachaume, Yester Muhlens Garcia, Georgette Sanchez, Karl Schreiner, Nora Sitges Sardà
The Double Life of Zefirino - Opera
Venue: McCarter Theater Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey
Premiere: May 5, 2004.
Director: Karole Armitage
Music: Handel, Gluck, Pergolesi, Vivaldi.
Costumes: James Ivory
Set: Andrea Branzi
Lighting Design: Aaron Copp
Countertenor: Anthony Roth Costanzo
Time is the echo of an axe within wood - Dance
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance
Venue: Joyce Theater, New York City
Premiere: March 2, 2004.
Music: Béla, Music for Strings Percussion and Celesta (1936); Gavin Bryars, One Last Bar, Then Joe Can Sing (1994); Annie Gosfield and Roger Kleier, Impulse Turbine (1999); Charles Ives, The Unanswered Question (1908)
Costumes: Peter Speliopoulos
Set: David Salle
Lighting Design: Clifton Taylor
Dancers Leonides D. Arpon, Leone Barilli, Brian Carey Chung, Megumi Eda, Theresa Ruth Howard,
William Isaac, Valerie Madonia, Cheryl Sladkin
Special Guests: Sharmila Desai, and House of Ninja, Bendeleon, Mecca, Aviance Milan
SZ110 - Dance
Company: Ballet de Lorraine
Didier Deschamps, Artistic Director Ballet de Lorraine
Venue: Het Musiek Theater, Amsterdam, Holland
Premiere: January 6, 2004
Karole Armitage, Resident Choreographer Ballet de Lorraine
Choreography: Karole Armitage
Music: Béla Bartok, Sonata for 2 Pianos and Percussion
Musicians: Laurent Durupt, piano; Hugues Leclèrc piano; Eric Chartier, percussion; Laurence Chave, percussion
Set: Andrea Branzi
Costumes: Peter Speliopoulos
Lighting Design: Roberto Venturi
Dancers: Pierre François Badaud, Laure Barreault, Christophe Béranger, Amandine Biacherin, Jennifer Blasek, Larissa Boutenko, Anastasia Boykova Nedelcheva, Myrina Branthomme, Xavier Chasseur-Daniel, Ludivine Cornière, Simon Courchel, Grégory Deglane, Morgane De Quelen, Dmitri Domojirov, Andrei Fedotov, Valérie Ferrando, Julien Ficely, Miroslaw Gordon, Alexis Guttierez, Marie-Severine Hourteloup, Elizabeth Iglésias, Alexandre Jourdeuil, Gilles Kanert, Nina Kokham, Aurore Longère, Ophélie Longuet, Juliette Mignon, Georgi Milev, Alistair Noblet, Matthieu Pichon, Ifon Peirce, Ligia Saldhana, Florence Viennot
2003
Rave - Screen Dance
Rave, choreography adapted for television. Producers: Les Films d’ici/Arte. France.
Director: Mark Kiddel
Choreography: Karole Armitage
Music: David Shea
Costumes: Peter Speliopoulos
Skin Color Palette: David Salle
Lighting Design: Clifton Taylor
Dancers: Laure Barrcoult, Christophe Béranger, Jennifer Blasek, Myrina Branthomme, Ludivine Cornière, Simon Courchel, Grégory Deglane, morgana De Quelen, Dmitri Domojirov, Valérie Ferrando, Julien Ficely, Miroslaw Gordon, Alexis Guttierez, Marie-Sévrune Hourteloup, Alexandre Jourdeuil, Gilles Kanert, Nina Khoham, Aurore Longere, Juliette Mignon. Georgi Milev, Alistair Noblet, Matthieu Pichon, Ifon Peirce, Ligia Saldhana, Florence Viennot
Living Toys – Dance
Company: Rambert Dance Company
Mark Baldwin, Director Rambert Dance Company
Venue: Theatre Royal, Glasgow, Scotland
Premiere: May 29, 2003
Choreography: Karole Armitage
Music: Thomas Adès, Living Toys
Costumes: Peter Speliopoulos.
Lighting Design: Clifton Taylor
Dancers: Lucila Alves, Rafael Bonachela, Simon Cooper, Megumi Eda, Thomasin Gülgeç, Amy Hollingsworth, Robin Gladwin, Andrew Hurst, Paul Liburd, Miranda Lind, Martin Lindinger, Cameron McMillan, Hope Muir, Conor O'Brien, Mikaela Polley, Maika Ramos, Ana Luján Sánchez, Fabrice Serafino, Samantha Smith, Angela Towler, Gemma Wilkinson, Glenn Wilkinson
Orfeo ed Euridice - Opera
Company: San Carlo Opera Chorus and Ballet, Naples, Italy
Gioacchino Lanza Tomasi, General Director Teatro di San Carlo
Venue: Teatro di San Carlo Naples, Italy
Premiere: Oct. 29, 2003.
Music: Christoph Willibald Gluck, Orfeo ed Euridice
Conductor: Julian Kovatchev
Libretto: Ranieri de' Calzabigi.
Direction and Choreography: Karole Armitage
Set: Brice Marden.
Costumes: Peter Speliopoulos
Dramaturge: Stefano Paba
Lighting Design: Roberto Venturi
Chorus Director: Ciro Visco
Ballet Director: Elisabetta Terabust
Orfeo: Elena Cassin
Euridice: Anna Laura Longo.
Amore: Danielle De Niese
Orfeo Dancer: Edmundo Tucci / Domenico Luciano
Euridice Dancer: Alessandra Veronetti / Roberta De Intinis
La Bellezza: Giovanna Spalice / Cristina Sasso
Partner of La Bellezza: Alessandro Macario
Fury Couple: Roberta De Intinis / Corona Paone; Francesco Volpe / Luigi Ferrone
Lead Fury: Gianluca Nunziata / Andrea Scuderi
Chorus: Coro di Teatro San Carlo; Chorus of Teatro di San Carlo
Mourners Act 1 Scene 1: Floriana Centanni, Giorgia Cappeli, Agostino D’Aloja, Bruno Stoduto
Furies Act 2 Scene 1: Maria Amoruso, Elisabetta Magiulo, Giordana Maura, Valentia Vitale, Giorgia Cappelli, Ottavia Cocozza Di Montanata, Maria Rosaria Cavuoto, Margherita Provenzano, Sara Sancamillo, Marina Nossova, Carla Coppola, Candida Sorrentino, Valentina Allevi, Fortunato D’Angelo, Andrea Scurderi, Giuseppe Della Monica, Massimo Sorrentino, Giuseppe Schiavone, Marco Spizzica, Leonardo Sciavella, Alessandro Rende, Alessandro Macario, Mardco D’Andrea, Fabio Gison, Emanuele Buffafato, Michele Ferraro, Simone Vallese
Ombre Felice Act 2 Scene 2: Natalia Mele, Maria Langella, Sara Sancamillo, Candida Sorrentino, Marina Nossova, Valentina Vitale, Giorgia Cappelli, Margherita Provenzano, Ottavia Cocozza Di Montanara, Loredana Conte, Romina Leone, Sabrina Corcione, Maria Rosaria Cavuoto, Giordana Maura, Carla Coppola, Elisabetta Magliulo, Maria Amoruso, Mariaelouise Urcioli, Annavita Romano, Valentina Allevi, Carmen Landi, Marcello Pepe, Simone Vallese, Massimo Sorrentino, Giuseppe Schiavone, Marco Spizzica, Leonard Schiavella, Diego Watzke, Fabio Gison, Michele Ferraro, Fortunato D’Angelo, Marco D’Andrea, Fabrizio Esposito, Andrea Scuderi, Giuseppe Della Monica, Vittorio Mazzoni, Francesco Sorrentino, Emanuele Burrafato
Children from la Scuola di Ballo del Teatro di San Carlo diretta da Anna Razzi
2002
Broken Glass – Dance
Company: Florence Dance Company.
Venue: Teatro Goldoni. Florence, Italy.
Premiere: December 5, 2002
Lighting Design: Jean Paol Carradori
Danza 1
Music: Salvatore Sciarrino, Sonata II and IV
Costumes: Peter Speliopoulos
Dancers: Valentina Baldacci, Aessandra Di Prete, Serena Ferroni, Matteo Gavazzi, Miguel Machado, Raffaele Marinari, Francesa Nerozzi, Egle Pranzimi, Elena Santorineu Diwicki, Marianna Solari
Danza 1I
Thomas Adès, Sonata da Caccia
Costumes: Peter Speliopoulos
Dancers: Leone Barilli, Ramona Caia
Danza III
Phillip Glass, Mishima String Quartet
Dancers: Valentina Baldacci, Aessandra Di Prete, Serena Ferroni, Raphaele Marinari, Francesa Nerozzi, Egle Pranzini, Elena Santorineu Diwicki, Marianna Solari
Le Chateau de Barbe-Blue - Bluebeard's Castle - Opera
Co-production Opéra de Nancy and Ballet de Lorraine
Didier Deschamps, Artistic Director Ballet de Lorraine
Venue: Théatre de l'Opéra. Nancy, France
Premiere: Oct. 18, 2002
Karole Armitage, Resident Choreographer Ballet de Lorraine
Direction and Choreography: Karole Armitage
Music: Béla Bartok, A kékszakállú herceg vára, Bluebeard’s Castle
Conductor: Klaus Weise
Libretto: Béla Balázs
Costumes: Peter Speliopoulos
Set: Andrea Branzi
Costumes: Peter Speliopoulos
Lighting Design: Roberto Venturi
Dramaturge: Stefano Paba
Bluebeard: Czaba Arizier
Judith: Natasha Petrinsky
Dancers 2004: Bulat Akhmejanov, Xavier Chasseur-Daniel, Simon Courchel, Grégory Deglane, Dmitri Domojirov, Valérie Ferrando, Julien Ficely, Miroslaw Gordon, Alexis Guttierez, Marie-Severine Hourteloup, Alexandre Jourdeuil, Gilles Kanert, Aurore Longère, Alistair Noblet, Joris Perez, Matthieu Pichon
SZ110 - Dance
Company: Ballet de Lorraine
Didier Deschamps, Artistic Director Ballet de Lorraine
Venue: Théatre de l'Opéra. Nancy, France
Premiere: October, 18, 2002
Music: Béla Bartok, Sonata for 2 Pianos and Percussion
Musicians: Laurent Durupt, piano; Hugues Leclèrc piano; Eric Chartier, percussion; Laurence Chave, percussion
Set: Andrea Branzi
Costumes: Peter Speliopoulos
Lighting Design: Roberto Venturi
Dancers 2004: Pierre François Badaud, Laure Barreault, Christophe Béranger, Amandine Biacherin, Jennifer Blasek, Larissa Boutenko, Anastasia Boykova Nedelcheva, Myrina Branthomme, Xavier Chasseur-Daniel, Ludivine Cornière, Simon Courchel, Grégory Deglane, Morgane De Quelen, Dmitri Domojirov, Andrei Fedotov, Valérie Ferrando, Julien Ficely, Miroslaw Gordon, Alexis Guttierez, Marie-Severine Hourteloup, Elizabeth Iglésias, Alexandre Jourdeuil, Gilles Kanert, Nina Kokham, Aurore Longère, Ophélie Longuet, Juliette Mignon, Georgi Milev, Alistair Noblet, Matthieu Pichon, Ifon Peirce, Ligia Saldhana, Florence Viennot
Pinokkio - Dance
Company: Introdans Ensemble for Youth
Roel Voorintholt, Artistic Director, Introdans
Venue: Schouwburg Orpheus, Apeldoorn, Holland
Premiere: September 13, 2002.
Music: Pino Minafra
Costumes: Jean Paul Gaultier
Set: Andrea Branzi
Lighting Design: Roberto Venturi
Dancers: Camille Andriot, Antonio Chamizo, Laura Berghuis, Daniëlle Clarijs, Danilo Colonna, Tyler Gledhill, Karin Lambrechtse, Adriaan Luteijn, Mendy Kunz, Iris Possen, Carola van Rijn, John Sandurski, Emanuele Soavi, Nao Tokuhashi, Yusuke Tsutsumi
Sonata da Caccia - Dance
Company: Ballet de Lorraine
Didier Deschamps, Artistic Director Ballet de Lorraine
Premiere: June 2002. Mexico
Revised for Florence Dance Company Dec. 2002
Music: Thomas Adès, Sonata da Caccia
Costumes: Peter Speliopoulos
Dancers: Ligia Saldhana, Christophe Béranger or Matthieu Pichon
Melodien - Dance
Company: Ballet de Lorraine
Didier Deschamps, Artistic Director Ballet de Lorraine
Venue: Théatre de l'Opéra. Nancy, France
Premiere: May 22, 2002.
Music: György Ligeti, Melodien
Costumes: Peter Speliopoulos
Lighting Design: Clifton Taylor
Dancers:
2001
Rave Full-length - Dance
Company: Ballet de Lorraine
Didier Deschamps, Artistic Director Ballet de Lorraine
Venue: Théatre de l'Opéra. Nancy, France
Premiere: November 28, 2001.
Choreography: Karole Armitage
Music: David Shea
Costumes: Peter Speliopoulos
Skin Color Palette: David Salle
Lighting Design: Clifton Taylor
Dancers: Christophe Béranger, Amandine Biacherin, Jennifer Blasek, Laëtitia Bouffard, Myrina Branthomme, Larissa Boutenko, Xavier Chasseur-Daniel, Ludivine Cornière, Grégory Deglane, Morgane De Quelen, Dmitri Domojirov, Iovor Doytchinov, Andrei Fedotov, Valérie Ferrando, Miroslaw Gordon, Alexis Guttierez, Alexandre Jourdeuil, Gilles Kanert, Nina Khoham, Ophélie Longère, Juliette Mignon, Alistair Noblet, Matthieu Pichon, Ifon Peirce, Ligia Saldhana, Florence Viennot
Broken Glass – (aka PowerSurge) Dance
Company: University of Kansas Dance Company
Venue: School of Fine Arts, University of Kansas, Lawrence Kansas
Premiere: November 15, 2001
Music: Phillip Glass, Mishima String Quartet
Dancers: Kirsti Allen, Ellie Glpudie-Averill, Beau Hancock, Kathleen O’Connor, Brandi Scallorn, Jessica Smith, Michelle Whiteley, Lillian Wu
Drastic Remix - Dance
Company: Ballet de Lorraine
Didier Deschamps, Artistic Director Ballet de Lorraine
Venue: Théatre de l'Opéra. Nancy, France
Premiere: June 14, 2000
Music: David Shea after original music by Rhys Chatham
Musicians: Oliver Benoit, Hervé Gudin, Jean-Sébastien Mariage (guitars); Michel Deltruc (drums)
Costumes: Peter Speliopoulos
Lighting Design: Roberto Venturi
Dancers: Christophe Béranger, Jennifer Blasek, Larissa Boutenko, Marine Castel, Morgan De Quelen, Dmitri Domojirov, Ana Gonzaga, Miroslaw Gordon, Aurore Longère, Valérie Scannela
Rave 1 - Dance
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance
Venue: The Joyce Theater, New York City
Premiere: January 23, 2001
Music: David Shea
Costumes: Peter Speliopoulos
Skin Color Palette: David Salle
Lighting Design: Burke Wilmore
Dancers: Leone Barilli, Christophe Béranger, Marine Castel, Larissa Boutenko, Dmitri Domojirov, Paola Fazioli, Ana Gonzaga, Margherita Mana
Schrödingers Cat - Part 1 - Dance
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance
Venue: The Joyce Theater, New York City
Premiere: January 23, 2001
Commissioned Music: Gerard Hourbette with Art Zoyd
Costumes: Peter Speliopoulos
Lighting Design: Burke Wilmore
Dancers: Leone Barilli, Christophe Béranger, Marine Castel, Paola Fazioli, Ana Gonzaga, Margherita Mana
2000
Schrödingers Cat - Dance
Company: Ballet de Lorraine. Nancy, France
Didier Deschamps, Artistic Director Ballet de Lorraine
Venue: Théatre de l'Opéra, Nancy, France
Premiere: November 7, 2000.
Tours: France, Italy, New York
Commissioned Music: Gerard Hourbette with Art Zoyd
Costumes: Peter Speliopoulos
Lighting Design: Thibault Leblanc
Dancers: Laure Barrault, Pierre François Badaud, Christophe Béranger, Jennifer Blasek, Frédéric Carré, Marine Castel, Emanuel Colina, Ludivine Cornière, Daria Dadun, Grégory Deglane, Iavor Doytchinov, Andre Fedotov, Miroslaw Gordon, Ana Gonzaga, Alexandre Jourdeuil, Cinthia Labaronne, Aurore Longère, Gilles Kanert, Juliette Mignon, Dimo Milev, Matthieu Pichon, Anne Salmon, Valérie Scannella
Concerto Conciso - Dance
Company: Ballet National de Cuba
Alicia Alonso, Artistic Director
Venue: Teatro Garcia Lorca. Havana, Cuba
Premiere: Oct. 21, 2000.
Music: Thomas Adès, Concerto Conciso
Costumes: Peter Speliopoulos
Dancers: Maikel Acosta, Galina Álvarez, Verónica Corveas, Ernesto Díaz, Isis Díaz, Amanda Fuentes, Víctor Gílí, Déborah Márquez
Tango Mortale - Dance
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance
Venue: Teatro Antico, Taormina, Sicily, Italy
Premiere: June 24, 2000
Tours: Italy, Greece, New York
Music: Thomas Adès, Arcadiana IV. Tango Mortale
Costumes: Arjun Bhasin
Dancers: Dmitri Domojirov, Paola Fazioli
Yo, Giacomo Casanova – Dance Play
A Dance Play in 9 Seductions and an Epliogue, based on Casanova’s
Memoir, Histoire de ma vie
Co-production Change Performing Art, and Attiki Cultural society
Venue: Teatro Antico. Taormina, Sicily
Premiere: June 24, 2000
Tours: Italy and Greece
Costumes: Arjun Bhasin and Peter Speliopoulos
Set: Andrea Branzi
Lighting Design: AJ Weisbard
Countertenor: Anthony Roth Costanzo
Dancers: Leone Barilli, Ramona Caia, Giuseppe Cannizzo, Leanne Codrington, Dmitri Domojirov, Antonia Franceschi, Matteo Levaggi
1.
SEDUCTION NO. 1 - IN PIAZZA SAN MARCO
Masked Ball
Music: David Shea, David Shea Chamber Symphony, Movement No. 2
Leone Barilli, Ramona Caia, Giuseppe Cannizzo, Leanne Codrington, Dmitri Domojirov, Antonia Franceschi, Matteo Levaggi
INTERMEZZO
Original Music: Yorgos Couroupos, Interludes for Casanova, 1
Lyrics: Giacomo Casanova
Leone Barilli, Ramona Caia, Giuseppe Cannizzo, Leanne Codrington, Dmitri Domojirov, Antonia Franceschi, Matteo Levaggi, Anthony Roth Costanzo
II.
SEDUCTION NO. 2 - IN A VENETIAN GARDEN
Corallina: The Pleasure of Conquest
Music: Thomas Adès, Arcadiana, Op 12: Movement V, L’embarquement, Movement VI, O Albion
Ramona Caia, Giuseppe Cannizzo
INTERMEZZO
Original Music: Yorgos Couroupos, Interludes for Casanova, II
Lyrics: Tennessee Williams, Covenant
Leone Barilli, Leanne Codrington, Anthony Roth Costanzo
III.
SEDUCTION NO. 3 – IN A FRENCH VILLA
Henriette: The Bittersweet Closing of the Door
Music: Thomas Adès, Sonata da Caccia, Movement 1, Gravement, Movement III, Naivement, Novement IV, Galament
Leone Barilli, Leanne Codrington
INTERMEZZO
Original Music: Yorgos Couroupos, Interludes for Casanova, III
Lyrics: W.H Auden, Stop All the Clocks
Ramona Caia, Dmitri Domojirov, Anthony Roth Costanzo
1V.
SEDUCTION NO. 4 – IN A PLAZA DE TOROS
Thomas Adès, Arcadiana, Op 12, Movement VI, Tango Mortale
Dmitri Domojirov, Paola Fazioli
V. SEDUCTION NO. 5 – IN ST. PETERSBURG
Killing What You Love
Music: Alfred Schnittke, Piano Quintet, Movement 2, Tempo di Valse
Matteo Levaggi, Anthony Roth Costanzo
Leone Barilli, Antonia Franceschi
INTERMEZZO
Original Music: Yorgos Couroupos, Interludes for Casanova IV, Passacaglia
Lyrics: Montale, Mottetti
Matteo Levaggi, Anthony Roth Costanzo
VI.
SEDUCTION NO. 6 – IN PIAZZA DI SPAGNA, ROME
Lessons from the Marquis de Sade
Music: John Zorn, The Dead Man, Movement III, Manifesto, Movement V, Meditation, Movement VI, Blossoms
Leone Barilli, Ramona Caia, Giuseppe Cannizzo, Leanne Codrington, Dmitri Domojirov, Antonia Franceschi, Matteo Levaggi, Anthony Roth Costanzo
INTERMEZZO
Original Music: Yorgos Couroupos, Interludes for Casanova V
Lyrics: Philip Larkin, This Be The Verse
Leone Barilli, Ramona Caia, Giuseppe Cannizzo, Leanne Codrington, Dmitri Domojirov, Antonia Franceschi, Matteo Levaggi, Anthony Roth Costanzo
VII.
SEDUCTION NO. 7 – IN A CHAT ROOM
The Condition of Solitude
Music: Giustino Di Gregorio, Music from the Web
Matteo Levaggi
VIII.
SEDUCTION NO. 8 – IN AN ENGISH COUNTRY ESTATE
Unfulfilled Love
Text: Tennesse Williams, One and Two, excerpt from The Two Character Play
Leone Barilli, Antonia Franceschi, Anthony Roth Costanzo
INTERMEZZO
Original Music: Yorgos Couroupos, Interludes for Casanova VI
Lyrics: John Wieners, To Sleep Alone Excerpted
Anthony Roth Costanzo
IX.
SEDUCTION NO. 9 – IN THE DEPTHS OF YOUR HEART
Discovering Your Other Half
Music: John Zorn, Carny
Dancers: Drimtri Domojirov, Antonia Franceschi
ARIA
W.A. Mozart, La finta giardiniera Seduction no. 9
Ramona Caia, Anthony Roth Costanzo
INTERMEZZO
Original Music: Yorgos Couroupos, Casanova
Lyrics: W.H. Auden, Death’s Echo
Leone Barilli, Ramona Caia, Giuseppe Cannizzo, Leanne Codrington, Dmitri Domojirov, Antonia Franceschi, Matteo Levaggi, Anthony Roth Costanzo
EPILOGUE
Like A Minuet
Original Music: Giovanni Solima, Casanova
Leone Barilli, Ramona Caia, Giuseppe Cannizzo, Leanne Codrington, Dmitri Domojirov, Antonia Franceschi, Matteo Levaggi
Anthony Roth Costanzio: Do you know why the Latin grammarians always called the cunnus, the vagina, in the masculine form and mentula, the penis, in the femine form? Because the slave always takes the name of his master.
The Birds - Opera
Company: Greek National Opera Ballet, Orchestra and Chorus
Venue: Irodion Theater, The Acropolis, Athens, Greece
Premiere: July 26, 2000
Concept, Directioni and Choreography: Karole Armitage
Music: Manos Hadjidakis, The Birds
Conductor: Loukas Karytinos
Choir Director: Fani Palamidi
Editor of Music Material: Nikos Kypourgos
Children’s Choir, Manolis Kalomiris of the National Conservatory
Childrens Chorus Director: Nikos Maliaras
Choregraphers Assistant: Irina Akrioti
Rehearsal Director: Donna Dunmire
Costumes: Peter Speliopoulos
Lighting Design: Yannis Theodoridis
Singers: Tasis Christoyannopoulos, Sofia Michailidou, Spyros Sakkas, Sonia Theodoridou
Dancers:
Pisthetaerus: Yiannis Dontsakis
Evelpides: Kryiakos Kosmidis
Crow: Maria Miliopoulou
Nightengales: Alina Stergianou, Cynthia Frida
Hoopoe: Stratos Papanousis
Everyman: Giorgis Vavvariotis
Flamingo: Io Kalochristou
Comic Hoopoe: Roxani Papanicola
Swans (Leaders): Vasia Bizidi, Georgia Tritsi
Swans: Emilia Gaspari, Angeliki Vaena, Vaso Politi, Dimitra Laoudi
Sovereignty (Vasilia): Valia Bizidu
Birds:
3 Birds: Mania Karavasili, Mitsi Stergianou, Sissy Bitsola
5 Birds: Evridiki Isaakidou, Natasa Siouta, Stavroula Kambouraki, Vicki Tsiroyanni,Vicky Bourha
10 Birds: Tinthi Agriyannaki, Kleopatra Anerousou, Anna Vamvaka, Athina Vrouva, Evi Karpouzi, Ivana Katsoula, Katerina Kikou, Eleni Kladou, Veronika Papadimitriou, Mioara Popeskou
8 Birds: Antonis Koroutis, Alexander Neskov, Aris Karemanis, Michalis Papas, Blendi Latifi, Hector Bolanos, Agapios Agapiadis, Fotis Diamandopoulos, Elton Dimrotsi, Thimios Doukas, Vageis Lafaras
Characters:
The Poet: Vagelis Lafaras
An Oracle Man: Kostas Martinis
Meton the geometrician: Thimios Doukas
An Inspector: Timotheos Zechas
A Statue Seller: Elton Dimrotsi
Gods and Demigods:
P{oseidon: Giorgos Meloyannidis
Prometheus: Viorel Berinde
Hercules: Nikos Tilios
Triballus: Fotos Diamandopoulos
Goddesses: Anastasfia Argiropoulou, Evi Ajgelopoulou, Sissy Persi
The Golden Bowl - Feature Film
Merchant Ivory Productions.
Starring Uma Thurman, Kate Bechinsale, Jeremy Northam, Nick Nolte
Dance scenes rehearsed and choreographed London, England
Directed by James Ivory
Script: Ruth Prawer Jabvala
Music: Richard Robbins
Choreography: Karole Armitage
Dancers: Amy Bailly, Michaela Burgess, Leanne Codrington, Antonia Franceschi, William Dignon, Stephen Hughes, Simon Humphrey, Tippi Maravala, Michela Meazza, Ray Souza, Philip Willingham
1998
The Last Lap - Dance
Company: White Oak Dance Project
Venue: The New Victory Theater, New York City
Premiere: August 10, 1999
Music: Dmitri Shostakovich excerpt from The Piano Quintet. Op.56 (Prelude and Adagio)
Costumes: David Salle
Lighting Design: David Finn
Dancers: Raquel Aedo, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Emily Coates, Emmanuèl Phuon, Ruthlynn Salomons, Susan Shields
Life Story - Dance
Company: “Stars of New York”
Antonia Franceschi, Curator “Stars of New York”
Venue: Spouthbank Centre, Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, England
Premiere: August 7, 1999
Choreography: Karole Armitage
Music: Thomas Adès, Life Story (1993)
Libretto: Tennessee Williams from In The Winter of Cities
Soprano: Mary Carewe
Pianist: Philip Mayers
Costumes: David Salle
Lighting Design: Perry Silvey
Dancers: Wendy Whelan and Albert Evans, Courtesy New York City Ballet
Up At the Villa - Feature Film
Phillip Haas, Director
Filmed in Tuscany, Italy
Choreography: Karole Armiage
Cast: Kristen Scott Thomas, Sean Penn, Anne Bancroft, Derek Jacobi
1998
Pinocchio - Dance
Company: MaggioDanza di Firenze
Franceso Ernani, Sovrintente, Teatro Comunale di Firenze
Cesare Mazzonis, Artistic Director, Teatro Comunale di Firenze
Karole Armitage, Artistic Director, MaggioDanza di Firenze
Venue: Teatro della Pergola, Florence, Italy
Premiere: June 11, 1998
Music: Giancarlo Schiaffini
Set: Andrea Branzi
Costumes: Jean Paul Gaultier
Lighting Design: Roberto Venturi
Pinocchio: Antonella Cerreto
Arlecchino: Fabrizio Pezzoni
Pulchinello: Antonio Colandrea
Geppetto: Roberto Fabbri
Grillo Parlante (Talking Cricket): Massimo Pollizy
Ragazzo (Kid): José Luis Maghalhaes
Rosaura: Marina Faccin
Carabinere (Policeman)/Marionette: Maurizio Marino
Mangiafuoco (Theater Director): Massimo Andaloro
Volpe (Fox): Leone Barilli
Gatto (Cat): Giampiero Galeotti
Montone (Leg of Mutton): Claudio Brambilla
Cane (Dog): Stefania Pellone
Gallo (Rooster): Arianna Pardi
Pavone (Peacock): Eleonora Cusumano
Farfalle (Butterfly): Guila Buffa / Diletta Acuti
Alberi (Trees): Marina Faccin, Monica Dragoni, Claude Gagnon, Kristina Grigorova, Judith Vincent
Fata (Blue Fairy)/Merlo Bianco (White Blackbird)/Lucciolina (Firefly)/Colomba (Dove): Margherita Mana
Serpente (Snake): Damina Pizzuti
Contadino (Farmer): Robert Fabbio
Gallina (Chicken): PaolaVismara
Faine (Weasels): Duccio Brinati, José Luis Maghalhaes, Fabrizio Pezzoni, Massimo Polizzy
Borghese Ricche (Rich Women): Sabrina Vitangeli, Claude Gagnon
Donne Borghese (Bourgeois Women): Silvia Cuomo, Kristina Grigorova, Angela Rosselli, Damiana Pizzuti
Uomni Borghesi (Bourgeois Men): Massimo Andaloro, Duccio Brinati, José Luis Maghalhaes, Fabrizio Pezzoni
Lucignolo (Candlewick): Leone Barilli
Ragazzi (Bad Boys): Antonio Guadagno, Jose Luis Maghalhaes, Fabrizio Pezzoni, Massimo Polizzy
Conduttore (Coachman): Massimo Andaloro
Ragazzi del Paese del Balocchio e Ciuchini (Kids of Pleasure Island and Donkeys): Silvia Cuomo, Paola Fazioli, Maria Fernandez, Claude Gagnon, Corinne Le Bolé, Angela Rosselli, CristinaVezzani, Judith Vincent, Duccio Brinati, Antonio Guadagno, José Luis Maghalhaes, Maurizo Marino, Fabrizio Pezzoni, Massimo Polizzy, Francesco Scini
Marmotta (Marmot): Cristina Bosetti
Imbonitore (Barker): Massimo Andaloro
Clowns: Fortuna Anatriello, Nicoletta Benuzzi, Antonio Colandrea, Maurzio Marino
Artista del circo (Circus Artist): Cristina Bosetti
Elettrofori (Electric Eels): Silvia Cuomo, Paola Fazioli, Sabrina Vitangeli
Pescicani (Sharks): Antonio Guadagno, José Luis Maghalhaes, Massimo Andaloro
Bunraku: Tiziano Goli, Pierangelo Prezioso, Davis Rada, Luca Tonini
Nadaswaram - Dance
Company: MaggioDanza di Firenze
Franceso Ernani, Sovrintente, Teatro Comunale di Firenze
Cesare Mazzonis, Artistic Director, Teatro Comunale di Firenze
Karole Armitage, Artistic Director, 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)
Costumes: Peter Speliopoulos
Lighting Design: Alfredo Magnelli
Dancers: Leone Barilli, Paola Fazioli, Margherita Mana, Fabrizio Pezzoni, Massimo Polizzy
Wild Ballerina - Documentary
1 Hour Feature documentary on Karole Armitage
Produced by Serge Lalou Les Films d'Ici, Reiner Moritz Productions
Directed by Mark Kidel
Mirror's Edge - Dance
Company: Les Ballets de Monte Carlo
Venue: Salle Garnier, Opéra de Monte Carlo, Monte Carlo, Monaco
Jean-Christophe Maillot, Artistic Director. Les Ballets de Monte Carlo
Venue: Salle Garnier, Opéra de Monte Carlo, Monte Carlo, Monaco
Premiere: December 20, 1998.
Choreography: Karole Armitage
Music: Michael Galasso
Costumes: Alpana Bawa
Lighting Design: Dominique Bruguière
Dancers: Soltankhanoum Akhmedova, Arjan Anton, Julia Carnicer, Sandrine Cassini, Bernice Coppieters,
Christina Davis, Francesca Dolci, Lara Fernandez, Stefan Ferry, Véronique Jean, Alina Lagoas Felicio, Raphaëlle Lecharpentier, Rodolphe Lucas, Pascal Molat, Gaëtan Morlotti, Francesco Nappa, Luisella Petronio, Aurélia Schaeffer, Chris Roelandt, Anne-Marie Symons
1997
Weather of Reality - Dance with live music on stage
Loosely inspired by Sirocco, (L’Agave sullo scoglio I) Eugenio Montale
Company: MaggioDanza di Firenze
Franceso Ernani, Sovrintente, Teatro Comunale di Firenze
Cesare Mazzonis, Artistic Director, Teatro Comunale di Firenze
Karole Armitage, Artistic Director, MaggioDanza di Firenze
Venue: Teatro Comunale di Firenze, Florence Italy
Premiere: February 11, 1997
Music: Seanski (member of Jazzmatazz)
Live DJ Scratch: Seanski
Trumpet: Robert Calder
Costumes: Pilar Limosner
Lighting Design: Mark McCullough
Dancers: Leone Barilli, Antonella Cerreto, Ilaria Chiaretti, Serena Chiaretti, Antonio Colandrea, Marco Di Giulio, Paola Fazioli, Margherita Mana, Fabrizio Pezzoni, Milko Pinceschi, Massimo Polizzy, Enrica Pontesilli, Pierangelo Prezioso, Cristina Vezzani, Judith Vincent
Tersicore - Opéra–Ballet
Company: MaggioDanza di Firenze
Franceso Ernani, Sovrintente, Teatro Comunale di Firenze
Cesare Mazzonis, Artistic Director, Teatro Comunale di Firenze
Karole Armitage, Artistic Director, MaggioDanza di Firenze
Venue: Teatro della Pergola, Florence, Italy
Premiere: May 11, 1997
Music: George Frederick Handel, Tersicore
Sets and Costumes: James Ivory with Seth Rubin
Lighting Design: Dominique Bruguière, Roberto Venturi
Director of Baroque Orchestra: David Bahanovich
Soprano: Sophie Daneman
Bass: Roberto Scaltriti
Tersicore (Muse of Dance): Sabrina Vitangeli / Damiana Pizzuti
Apollo: Umberto De Luca
Amante di Tersicore (Terpsichore’s Lover): Bruno Milo
Melpomene (Muse of Tragedy): Roberto Fabbri
Thalia (Muse of Comedy and Idyllic Poetry): Antonio Colandrea
Euterpe (Muse of Music and Lyric Poetry): Leone Barilli
Polimnia (Muse of Sacred Poetry): Maurizio Marino
Erato (Muse of Erotic Poetry): Francesco Scini / Andrea Grandoni
Clio (Muse of History): José Luis Maghalhaes
Urania (Muse of Astronomy): Fabrizio Pezzoni
Calliope Muse of Epic Poetry: Giampiero Galeotti / Massimo Pollizy
Apollo e Dafne – Cantata
Company: MaggioDanza di Firenze
Franceso Ernani, Sovrintente, Teatro Comunale di Firenze
Cesare Mazzonis, Artistic Director, Teatro Comunale di Firenze
Karole Armitage, Artistic Director, MaggioDanza di Firenze
Venue: Teatro della Pergola, Florence, Italy
Premiere: May 11, 1997
Music: George Frederick Handel, Apollo e Dafne
Sets and Costumes: James Ivory with Seth Rubin
Lighting Design: Dominique Bruguière, Roberto Venturi
Director of Baroque Orchestra: David Bahanovich
Soprano: Sophie Daneman
Bass: Roberto Scaltriti
Apollo: Umberto De Luca
Dafne: Margherita Mana
Pitone (Python): Leone Barilli
I sette pecccati capitali (The Seven Deadly Sins)
Pigrizia (Laziness): Fortuna Anatriello
Gola (Gluttony): Monica Andreucetti
Ira (Wrath): Monica Dragoni
Superbia (Pride): Paola Fazioli
Avarizia (Avarice): Angela Rosselli
Invidia (Envy): Chiara Tarchi
Lussuria: (Lust): Judith Vincent
Le quattro stagione (The Four Seasons):
Primavera (Spring): Cristina Bosetti, Andrea Grandoni
Estate (Summer): Serena Chiaretti, Antonio Guadagno
Autunno (Autumn): Claude Gagnon, Massimo Polizzy
Inverno (Winter): Antonella Cerreto, Marco Di Giulo
Allegoria della Confusione (Allegory of Confusion): Nicoletta Benuzzi
Allegoria della Gelosia Allegory of Jealousy): Laura Bindelli
Allegoria della Vanità (Allegory of Vanity): Fortuna Anatriello
Le Dodici Ore (The Twelve Hours): Monica Andreucetti, Ilaria Chiaretti, Monica Dragoni, Paola Fazioli, Maria Fernandez, Kristina Grigorova, Maria Grazia Menicalli, Enrica Pontesilli, Angela Rosselli, Chiara Tarchi, Cristina Vezzani, Judith Vincent
Cupiodo (Cupid): Ettore Peraldo
L’aiutante di Cupido (Cupid’s Helper): Paola Vismara
Diana /Cintia (Diana): Silvia Cuomo
Il Tempo (Time): Ettore Peraldo
Gli Angeli Della Morte (Angels of Death): Giampiero Galeotti, Fabrizio Pezzoni, Giuseppe Saiola, Milko Pineschi
Nettuno (Neptune): Bruno Milo
La Tempesta (The Storm): Damiana Pizzuti
La Calma (Calm): Sabrina Vitangeli
Cavaliere della Tempesta (Cavilier of the Storm): Leone Barilli
Melpomene (Muse of Tragedy): Roberto Fabbri
Thalia (Muse of Comedy and Idyllic Poetry): Antonio Colandrea
1996
The Predators' Ball - Dance with Rap and Theater
Company: MaggioDanza di Firenze
Franceso Ernani, Sovrintente, Teatro Comunale di Firenze
Cesare Mazzonis, Artistic Director, Teatro Comunale di Firenze
Karole Armitage, Artistic Director, MaggioDanza di Firenze
Venue: Teatro della Pergola, Florence, Italy
Premiere: June 11, 1996
Text: Joe Sutton and John Gould Rubin
Valletta Dialogue: Massimo Audiello
Direction and Choreography: Karole Armitage
Additional Staging: John Gould Rubin
Music and Lyrics: Jason Robert Brown, produced by Jeffrey Lesser, performed by I solisti Funk and Chorus (Brooks Ashmanskas, Christy Barons, Jason Robert Brown, Peter Flynn, Jenny Gierig (contractor), Audrey Klinger, John Sawyer)
Raps: DJ Ski
Raves: David Shea
Revlon Music: Michael Nyman
Set Design and Video: David Salle
Motion Animation Video: Erica Beckman
Editor: Doug Rossini
Poodle and Flowers: Jeff Koons
Costumes: Pilar Limosner, Debra Moises Co.
Suits: Hugo Boss
Unitards: Alfredo Viloria
Lighting Design: Pat Dignan
La Valletta (Female Television Assistant): Simona Arrighi
The God Thyades, Actor: Michael Winther
The God Thyades, Dancer:
Michael Milken, Actor: Jack Cirillo
Michael Milken, Dancer: Leone Barilli
Lori Milken, the Angry Woman: Laura Mufson
Ivan Boeksy, the voice of Revlon: John Gould Rubin
Carberry at the SEC, The Teacher, Fred Joseph, Steve Wynn, Nelson Peltz, Carl Icahn, Saul Steinberg, Mershulum Riklis, Ron Perlman, Congressman John Dingell, Rudolph Giuliani: Larry Cahn
The Entertainer: David White
Dance Soloists: Antonella Cerreto, Rachel Fabre, Damiani Pizzuti, Sabrina Vitangeli
Milken’s Adversary: Bruno Milo
Rappers: Sweepy and Ed
Voguers: Ben Harris, Stanley de Vaughn
Female Dancers: Nicoletta Benuzzi, Cristina Bosetti, Ilaria Chiaretti, Serena Chiaretti, Silvia Cuomo, Paola Fazioli, Claude Gagnon, ot, , Margherita Mana, Angela Rosselli, Chiara Tarchi, Cristina Vezzani
Male Dancers: Duccio Brinati, Antonio Colandrea, Marco Di Giulio, Giampiero Galeotti, José Luis Maghalhaes, Maurizo Marino, Alberto Marino, Fabrizio Pezzoni, Milko Pineschi, Massimo Polizzy, Francesco Scini
The Predators' Ball / Hucksters of the Soul - Dance with Rap and Theater
Company: MaggioDanza di Firenze and Guest Actors, Rappers Voguers
Venue: Opera House, Brooklyn Academy of Music: Brooklyn, New York
Premiere: Oct. 11, 1996.
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 Design: Pat Dignan
Cast
Dancers
1995
Il Viaggio di Schéhérazade - Dance
Company: MaggioDanza di Firenze
Franceso Ernani, Sovrintente, Teatro Comunale di Firenze
Cesare Mazzonis, Artistic Director, Teatro Comunale di Firenze
Evgheni Polykov, Artistic Director, MaggioDanza di Firenze
Venue: Teatro Comunale. Florence, Italy
Premiere: Oct. 1995
Music: Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and David Shea
Song: Roy Nathanson sung by Scottii
Set: Philip Taaffe
Costumes: Pilar Limosner
Lighting Design: Pat Dignan
Schéhérazade Singer: Scottii
Sultano (Sultan): Umberto De Luca
Schéhérazade Chiara (Light Scheherazade): Antonella Cerreto
Il consorte di Schéhérazade Chiara (Consort of Light Scheherazade): Leone Barilli
Schéhérazade Scuro (Dark Scheherazade): Sabrina Vitangeli
Medium: Chiara Tarchi
Schéhérazade, la concubina (Scheherazade the Concubine): Cristina Bosetti
Imperatore (Emperor): Massimo Andaloro
I Budda (the Buddahas): Roberto Fabbri, Maurizio Marino, Giuseppe Saiola
Salammbô (Salammbo):
Schéhérazade, la Salammbô (Scheherazade as Salammbo) Enrica Pontesilli
Schéhérazade, il barbaro Matho (Matho, the Barbarian): José Luis Maghalhaes
Bunraku: Leone Barilli, Antonio Colandrea, Marco di Giulio, Antonio Guadagno
India:
Shiva: Bruno Milo
Parvati: Paola Fazioli
Schéhérazade, la ragazza Indiana (Scheherazade, the young Indian girl): Monica Andreuccetti
Bunraku: Leone Barilli, Marco di Giulio
Salomé
Schéhérazade, la Salomé (Scheherazade, as Salome): Damiana Pizzuti
Bunraku: Duccio Brinati, Giampiero Galeotti, Fabrizio Pezzoni, Massimo Polizzi
Arabia:
Schéhérazade, La Favorita del Sultano (Scheherazade, Favorite of the Sultan): Rachel Fabre
Ragazze arabe (Arab Girls): Silvia Cuomo, Monica Dragoni, Marina Faccin, Maria Fernandez, Claude Gagnon, Corinne Le Bolé, Margherita Mana, Maria Grazia Menicalli, Angela Rosselli, Chiara Tarchi, Cristina Vezzani
Search and Destroy- Feature Film
Filmed in New York City.
Director: David Salle
Choreography: Karole Armitage
Griffin Dunne, Illeana Douglas, Ethan Hawke, Dennis Hopper, John Turturro, Christopher Walken
1994
Hovering at the Edge of Chaos - Dance
Company: Oregon Ballet Theatre
Premiere: May 13, 1994. Portland, Oregon
Music: Noh Traditional, Australian House, Rai by Khaled, Brazilian Rap, 808 State, John Zorn, Japanese pop
Email sent: 1.1.26
Tattoo and Tutu - Dance
Company: Ballet of Bayerische Statsoper
Venue: Bayerische Statsoper Munich, Germany
Premiere: May 17, 1994
Music: Shocklee Brothers (Public Enemy)
Costumes: Pilar Limosner
Lighting Design: Pat Dignan
Dancers: Kiki Lammersen and Oliver Matz
The Dog Is Us - Dance
Company: Ballet of the Deutsche Oper Berlin and 6 standard poodles
Venue: Deutsche Oper Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Premiere June 11, 1994
Music: Carl Stalling, David Shea, Shocklee Brothers (Public Enemy)
Set: David Salle
Costumes: Pilar Limosner
Lighting Design: Pat Dignan
The Good Egg – A Vintage Merry Melody (Carl Stalling 1939)
Ensemble
Various Cues from Bugs Bunny Films (Carl Stalling 1943-1956)
Katalene Borsboom, Christine Camillo, Lisa Cullum, Lea Petruzzi, Silke Sense, Victor Alvarez, José Cruz, Bart de Block, Stefano Giannetti, Martin James, Tomas Karlborg, Marie-Pierre Flechais, Yannick Boquin
There They Go Go Go – a complete Road Runner (Carl Stalling 1956)
Can Arlsan, Christine Camillo, José Cruz, Bart de Block, Stefano Giannetti, Tomas Karlborg
Powerhouse and other Cues from the early 50’s (Carl Stalling)
Ensemble
SFX from Screwy Squirrel from the early 50’s (David Shea 1994)
José Cruz, Marie-Pierre Flechais, Martin James
Cartoon for Scott Bradley (David Shea 1992)
Lisa Cullen, Jean-Lucien Massot
Finale: Made Dog Solo Running Dogs (Keith Shocklee 1994)
Final Finale: David Shea interprets Scott Bradely and Carl Stalling interpreting Rossini (1994)
Ensemble
The Return of Rasputin - Musical
A musical staged in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Producer: Berndt Braun, Transculture
Music: Danny Ashkenaza
Choreogrphy: Karole Armitage
Armitage Asistant: Ruben Bach
1993
Hucksters of the Soul - Dance with rap and narration
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance
Venue: Maison de la Culture, Bobigny. Paris, France.
Premiere June, 1993.
Tours: France, Germany, Italy
Music: David Shea
Costumes: Pilar Limosner
Set: Karole Armitage
Lighting Design: Pat Dignan
Cast
Dancers
I Had A Dream - Dance
Commisioned choreography as an homage to Balanchine
Company: Les Ballets de Monte Carlo
Her Serene Highness Princess Caroline of Monaco, Presidcent, Les Ballets de Monte Carlo
Jean-Christophe Maillot, Artistic Director. Les Ballets de Monte Carlo
Venue: Salle Garnier, Opéra de Monte Carlo, Monte Carlo, Monaco
Premiere: December 25, 1993
Tours: Italy, France, Tunisia
Music: Denis Gaultier, Prelude from Suite in Re Majeur, Tombeau pour Monsieur de l’Enclos; Marin Marais, Tombeau pour Monsieur de Lulli, Plainte; Couperin, Prélude from 1ere Suite; Robert de Visée, Tombeau des filles cadettes de Robert de Visée; Igor Stravinsky, Double Canon á La Memoire de Raoül Dufy, Charles Ives, Arguments, 2nd Movmeent Strring Quartet No. 2, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, I Had A Dream, Joe
Costumes: Pilar Limosner
Lighting Design: Pat Dignan
Dancer: Claire Baylis, Béatrice Belando, Nicole Binder, Ina Broeckx, Gérôme Buttazoni, Valérie Brown, Joëlle Boulogne, Hong Yeng Dang, Emmanelle Duverger, Sandrine Gouny, Véronique Jean, Jean-Charles Gil, Raphaël, LeCharpentier, Peter Lewton, Didiet Lambelet, Giovanni Lorenzoni, Paola Messinger, Eric Oberdorff, Frédéric Olivieri, Alberto Morino, Gaëtan Morlotti, Nicolas Musin, Lijana Peric, Luisella Petronio, Annabella Salmon, Vanessa Tamburi, Thierry Vezies
1992
Karole Armitage Residency AFI Directors Workshop for Women, Los Angeles, California
Chain of Desire – Feature Film
Feature film based on Ophuls’ La Ronde
Directed by Temístocles López
Filmed in New York City
Music: Nathan Birbaum with additional music by Peter Gordon
Choreography: Karole Armitage
Costumes: Pilar Limosner
Cast: Patrick Bauchau, Malcolm McDowell, Linda Fiorentino, Elias Koetas, Assumpta Serna, Grace Zabriskie
Dancers: Karole Armitage, Alicia Ho, Edward Jenkins, Michael Puleo, Rachel Tucker
Segunda Piel - Dance
Company: Les Ballet de Monte Carlo
Her Serene Highness Princess Caroline of Monaco, Presidcent, Les Ballets de Monte Carlo
Jean-Yves Esquerre, Artistic Director, Les Ballets de Monte Carlo
Venue: Salle Garnier, Opéra de Monte Carlo, Monte Carlo, Monaco
Premiere: April 18, 1992. Monte Carlo, Monaco
Tours: Italy, Austria, USA
Music: David Shea
Costumes: Alfredo Viloria
Email Sent 12. 30.25 Dancers: Paola Cantalupo, Sandrine Cassini, Bernice Coppieters, Crhis Roeland, Gaëton Morloëti, Francesco Nappa,
In the Closet - Music Video
Video clip for Michael Jackson featuring Naomi Campbell
Filmed near the Salton Sea, California.
Directed by Herb Ritts
Choreography: Karole Armitage
Happy Birthday Rossini - Dance
Company: MaggioDanza di Firenze
Venue: Teatro della Pergola, Florence, Italy
Premiere: May 15, 1992.
Tours: Italy
Music: Gioachino Rossini (arrang. David Shea)
Set: Mina Albergo
Photos: Ellen von Unwerth
Costumes: Karole Armitage and Alfredo Viloria
Lighting Design: Pat Dignan
Preludio:
Rino Pedrazzini · MaggioDanza |
Il barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville):
Il conte d’Almaviva (The Count of Almaviva): Bruno Milo
Rosina: Enrica Pontesilli
Dottor Bartolo: Leone Barilli
Il maestro di musica (Music Teacher): Mark Baird
Figaro: José Luis Magalhaes
I barberi (The Barbers): Maurizio Marino, Giuseppe Saiola
Le spose (The Wives): Maria Grazia Menicalli, Elena Saez, Cristina Bosetti
Gli Sposi (The Husbands): Peter Malmsjo, Andrea Grandoni, Giampiero Galeotti
La gazza ladra (The Theiving Magpie):
Le gazze (The Magpies): Rachel Fabre, Antonio Colandrea
Ninetta: Sabrina Vitangeli
Giannetto: Leone Barilli
I soldati (The Soldiers): Francesco Scini, Giampiero Galeotti, Mark Baird, José Luis Magalhaes, Peter Malmsjo
I poliziotti (The Policmen): Roberto Fabbri, Duccio Brinati
Le spose (The Wives): Maria Grazia Menicalli, Elena Saez, Cristina Bosetti
Gli Sposi (The Husbands): Peter Malmsjo, Andrea Grandoni, Giampiero Galeotti
L’Italiana in Algeri (An Italian in Algeria):
Isabella: Paola Fazioli
Lindoro: Milko Pineschi
Il Bey d’Algeri: Matteo Borrelli
La moglie del Bey (The wife of the Bey), Elvira: Maria Fernandez
Gli schiavi (The slaves): Antonio Colandrea, Maurizio Marino, Roberto Fabbri, Giuseppe Saiola
L’harem: Claude Gagnon, Corinne Le Bolé, Marzia Tinto, Sabrina Vitangeli
Gli angeli (The Angels): Monica Andreuccetti, Silvia Cuomo, Damiana Pizzuti, Cristina Vezzani
I preti (The Priests): Maurizio Marino, Luigi Minelli, Francesco Scini, Duccio Brinati
Le spose (The Wives): Maria Grazia Menicalli, Elena Saez, Cristina Bosetti, Antonella Cerreto
Gli Sposi (The Husbands): Peter Malmsjo, Andrea Grandoni, Giampiero Galeotti, José Luis Magalhaes
I gondolieri (The Gondeliers): Mark Baird, Leone Barilli
Guillaume Tell (William Tell):
Guillaume Tell (William Tell): Peter Malmsjo
Gli svizzeri (The Swiss Guard): Andrea Grandoni, Giampiero Galeotti, José Luis Magalhaes, Duccio Brinati
Gli austriaci (The Austrians): Matteo Borrelli, Giuseppe Saiola, Antonio Colandrea, Roberto Fabbri, Maurizio Marino, Francesco Scini
Armida:
Armida: Antonella Cerreto
Rinaldo: Umberto De Luca
Claude Gagnon, Angela Rosselli, Corinne Le Bolé, Damiana Pizzuti, Giampiero Galeotti, José Luis Magalhaes, Duccio Brinati |
Andante sostenuto in fa min. from Péchés de vieillesse (Sins of Old Age)
Monica Andreuccetti · Leone Barilli · Cristina Bosetti · Andrea Grandoni · José Luis Magalhaes · Luigi Minelli · Damiana Pizzuti
La boutique fantasque: dalle pagine di Vogue (La Boutique Fantasque from the Pages of Vogue):
Duetto (Duet): Paola Fazioli, Leone Barilli
Trio: Bruno Milo, Cristina Bosetti, Paola Fazioli
Pucci: Monica Andreuccetti, Chiara Tarchi, Claude Gagnon, Enrica Pontesilli
Paparazzi: José Luis Magalhaes, Antonio Colandrea, Matteo Borrelli, Roberto Fabbri
Diana Vreeland: Angela Rosselli
Alexander Liberman: Giampiero Galeotti
Warren Beatty: Umberto De Luca
Madonna: Maria Grazia Menicalli
Cowboys: Elena Saez, Cristina Vezzani · Umberto De Luca, Peter Malmsjo, Antonio Colandrea, Mark Baird, Leone Barilli
Cowgirls: Antonella Cerreto, Sabrina Vitangeli, Silvia Cuomo, Margherita Mana
SIW: Bruno Milo, Umberto De Luca, Leone Barilli, Milko Pineschi
Chanel: Antonella Cerreto, Sabrina Vitangeli
Gli angeli dell’inferno (Angles form Hell): Bruno Milo, Paola Fazioli, Elena Saez, Duccio Brinati, Milko Pineschi
Finale:
Corpo di ballo, Company
Hall of Mirrors - Film
Half-hour feature film written, choreographed and directed by KA as part of the American Film Institute's Women Directors Program.
1991
Overboard - Dance
Company: Charleois Danse.
Premiere: December, 1991. Charleois, Belgium.
Choreography: Karole Armitage
Music: David Shea
Projections: Jeff Koons and David Sale
Lighting Design: Pat Dignan
Dancers:
Renegade Dance Wave - Dance
Company: The Armitage Ballet
Venue: Center for the Arts. Crested Butte, Colorado
Premiere: July, 1991
Tours: USA and Japan
Choreography: Karole Armitage
Music: Renegade Sound Wave, 808 State
Costumes: Karole Armitage
Lighting Design: Pat Dignan
Dancers: Simone Schumacher, Michael Puleo, Taj, Alexa Gutierrez
The Marmot Quickstep - Dance
Company: The Armitage Ballet
Venue: Center for the Arts. Crested Butte, Colorado
Premiere: August 8, 1990.
Tours: USA
Choreography: Karole Armitage
Music: traditional American
Costumes: Karole Armitage
Lighting Design: Pat Dignan
Dancers
Vogue - Music Video
Group: Madonna
Video clip for Madonna
Directed by David Fincher.
Filmed in Los Angeles, California
Choreography: Karole Armitage with Luis Camacho and Jose Guiterez
Back up Singers: Niki Haris, Dona DeLory
Dancers: Luis Camacho, Oliver Crumes Jr., Salim Gauwloos, Jose Guiterez
Gabriel Trupin, Kevin Alexander Stea, Carlton Wilborn
Blonde Ambition - Rock Touring Show
Group: Madonna
Several numbers for World Tour, Blonde Ambition
Staged in Los Angeles, California
Choreography: Karole Armitage
Back up Singers: Niki Haris, Dona DeLory
Dancers: Luis Camacho, Oliver Crumes Jr., Salim Gauwloos, Jose Guiterez
Gabriel Trupin, Kevin Alexander Stea, Carlton Wilborn
1990
Forty Guns - Dance
Company: The Armitage Ballet
Venue: Center for the Arts, Crested Butte, Colorado
Premiere: August 8, 1990
Tours: USA
Music: traditional American
Costumes: Karole Armitage
Lighting Design: Pat Dignan
Dancers
Dancing Zappa - Dance
Company: Lyon Opera Ballet, Opéra National de Lyon
Françoise Adret, Yorgos Loukos, Aristic Directors, Lyon Opera Ballet
Venue: Auditorium-Orchestre National de Lyon. Lyon, France
Premiere: September 20, 1990
Music: Frank Zappa, Strictly Genteel, Plastic People, Trouble, Slime and "Why Dontcha Do Me Right?
Conductor: Kent Nagano
Choreography: Karole Armitage
Trouble
Costumes: Karole Armitage/NIKOS
Plastic People
David Salle: Costumes inspired by Clockwork Orange directed by Stanely Kubrick
Slime
Emilio Pucci: Women’s Costumes:
NMIKOS: Men’s Costumes
Why Dontcha Do Me Right
David Salle: Men’s Costumes and Gogo Girl
Cristian Lacroix: Tights
Strictly Genteel
Karole Armitage, David Salle: Costumes
Dancers: Pierre Advokatoff, Thierry Allard, Elizabeth Amiel, Patrick Azzopardi, Hacène Bahiri, Hervé Chams, Jean –Pascal Cottalorda, Nathalie Delassis, Nicolas Duflous, Christelle Dorier, Pascale Doye, Bernard Espinasse, Anna-Sylvie Gache, Boucif Hamaoui, Françoise Joullie, Philippe Lormeau. Jayne Plaisted, Chantal Requena, Kasumi Sanada, Nicolas Stifter, Stanislas Wisniewski, Arnold Wolschies
Jack and Betty - Dance
Company: Les Nomades
Venue: L’Octogone, Théâtre de Pully, Lausanne, Switzerland
Premiere: April 19, 1991
Tours: France, Italy, Spain, etc.
Choreography: Karole Armitage
Music: John Zorn, with Naked City, Torture Garden
Costumes: Karole Armitage
Dancers: Ruben Bach, Serge Campardon. Florence Faure
Love School - Music Video
Video clip for the Dyvinals
Filmed in Los Angeles, California
Director: Marcus Nispel
Dyvinals: Chrissie Amphett, Mark McEntee
Choreography: Karole Armitage
World Tour - Rock Touring Show
Milli Vanilli
Milli Vanilli: Rob Pilates and Fab Morvan
Choreography: Karole Armitage
Various Video Clips
Kuffs - Feature Film
Feature film.
Staring: Tony Goldwyn, Milla Jovovich, Ashley Judd, Cristian Slater,
Directed by Bruce Evans
Filmed in Los Angeles, California
Choreography: Karole Armitage
1989
Contempt - Dance
Company: The Armitage Ballet
Venue: La Quartz. Brest, France
Premiere: April 11, 1989.
Tours: USA, France, Spain, Italy
Choreography: Karole Armitage
Music: George Delarue, Contempt, arranged by John Zorn; Thelonius Monk, Brilliant Corners, Bolivar Blues, Crepuscule with Nellie, Chet Baker, Funny Valentine, The Thrill is Gone, Charles Mingus, Hog Callin’; Duke Ellington, Switch Blade; Charles Mingus, Duke Ellington, Max Roach, Fleurette Africaine, Money Jungle; Johann Sebastian Bach, Sarabande in D Minor; John Zorn, Spillane; Kurt Weil arranged by Gil Evans, Bilbao Song; Dmitri Shostakovich, Elegy
Text: Bret Easton Ellis excerpted from The Rules of Attraction, recited by Theresa Russell; Film: David Salle produced by Donald Rosenfeld II
Set and Costumes: David Salle
Pig and Sex Doll Curtain: Jeff Koons (Pig constructed by Anne Slavit)
Lighting Design: Ken Tabachnick
Dancers: Karole Armitage, Daniel Catanach, Donna Dunmire, Corinne Giddings, Troy Hoggard, Robyn Gardenhire, Michael Puleo
Without You, I'm Nothing - Feature Film
Feature film starring Sandra Bernhard.
Directed by John Boskovich
Choreography: Karole Armitage
Ballet Dancers: Stephanie Clark, Indrana DeSouza, Hardy Keith, Sebastien Russell, Ellen Sims, Carlton Wilborn
GoGo Dancers: Joe DiGiandomenico, Felix Montano, David Stuart Rogers,
1988
Duck Dances - Dance
Company: The Armitage Ballet
Venue: Grand Théâtre d’Angers, Angers, France
Premiere: April 30, 1988.
Performed: USA, France, Germany, Japan
Choreography: Karole Armitage
Music: Jeffrey Lohn
Costumes: David Salle
Lighting Design: Debra Dumas
Dancers: Katherine LaNasa, David Grenke
Kammerdisco - Dance
Company: The Armitage Ballet
Venue: Teatro Municipal de São Paulo, Sao Paolo, Brazil
Premiere: April 10, 1988.
Performed: France, Germany, Brazil, Portugal, US
Choreography: Karole Armitage
Music: Jeffrey Lohn
Live Percussion: Jeffrey Lohn, Don Yallech
Costumes: David Salle
Lighting Design: Debra Dumas
Dancers: Daniel Catanach, Gina DeRicco, Donna Dunmire, Corinne Giddings, Troy Hoggard, Victoria Hall, Michael O’Donnell, Katherine LaNasa, Nora Kimball, Michael Puleo
GoGo Ballerina - Dance
Company: The Armitage Ballet
Venue: The World. New York City
Premiere: November 13, 1988.
Performed: France, Italy, Spain, Portugal
Choreography: Karole Armitage
Jimi Hendrix, Manic Depression, Fire, Wild Thing, I don’t Live Today, Hey Joe, All Along the Watchtower
Public Enemy, Show em Whatcha Got, Rebel without a Pause (Instrumental)
Schoolly D: Hey Mister Big Dick
The Hard-Ons: Suck and Swallow
Sets: Jeff Koons
Costumes: David Salle
Bodyguards: Roberto Lewsi, Preston Maubank
Dancers: Karole Armitage, Daniel Catanach, Donna Dunmire, Robyn Gardenhire, Corinne Giddings, Troy Hoggard, Michael O’Donnell, Michael Puleo,
Guest Dancers: Marcelline, Marlene McCoy, Marica Pedar
1987
The Tarnished Angels - Dance
Company: The Armitage Ballet.
Venue: Doolittle Theater Los Angeles, California
Premiere: September 10, 1987
Tours: USA, France, Germany, Japan, Spain, Brazil, Italy, Belgium
Choreography: Karole Armitage
Music: Charles Mingus, The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
Sets: David Salle
Costumes: Christian Lacroix
Lighting Design: Ken Tabachnick
Dancers: Jeffrey Broadhurst, Corinne Giddings, David Grenke, Nora Kimball, Michael Johnson, Katherine LaNasa, Michael Puleo, Danielle Tiletnick
Les Anges Ternis - Dance
Company: Ballet de l'Opéra de Paris
Commissioned by Rudolf Nureyev, Artistic Director, Paris Opera Ballet
Venue: Théâtre de l'Opéra de Paris, France
Premiere: May 29, 1987
Choreography: Karole Armitage
Music: Charles Mingus, The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
Sets: David Salle
Costumes: Christian Lacroix
Lighting Design: Ken Tabachnick
Dancers: email sent 12. 27. 25 to Paris Opera
Les Stances a Sophie - Dance
Company: The Armitage Ballet
Choreography: Karole Armitage
Venue: Joyce Theater. New York City
Premiere: April 30, 1988?
Music: Art Ensemble of Chicago, Les Stances a Sophie
Set: Carroll Dunham
Costumes: Pilar Limosner
Guest Artists: Stephanie Saland and Robert LaFosse, Courtesy New York City Ballet
Dancers: Daniel Catanach, Corinne Giddings, Gina Dericco, Troy Hoggard, Victoria Hall, Noa Kimball, Katherine LaNasa, Michael O’Donnell, Michael Puleo, Danielle Tiletnick
1986
Residence Sundance Institute with Ballet West (Summer 1986?)
The Elizabethan Phrasing of the Late Albert Ayler - Dance
Company: The Armitage Ballet
Premiere: September 25, 1986. Eindhoven, Holland
Tours: USA, France, Japan, Spain, Germany, Holland, Italy, Belgium, Brazil, Portugal\
Choreography: Karole Armitage
Music: Lord Buckley, Subconscious Mind, Mark Anthony’s Funeral Oration; Webern, Funz State Fur Streichorchestrer, Op 5; Japanese traditional, Sakura –Sakura, performed by YoYo Ma; Stravinsky, Three Pieces for String Quartet; Albert Ayler, Bells
Sets and Costumes: David Salle
Lighting Design: Ken Tabachnick
Dancers: Jeffrey Broadhurst, Daniel Catanach, Corinne Giddings, David Grenke, Katherine LaNasa, Nora Kimball, Michael Johnson, Michael Puleo, Danielle Tiletnick,
1985
Karole Armitage Residence Sundance Institute with Ballet West (Summer 1985?)
The South Bank Show – Documentary Film
Documentary on Armitage. Producer: ITV. England. Director David Hinton with introduction by Melvin Bragg
The Watteau Duets - Dance with live music and performance on stage
Company: Armitage Pickup Group
Venue:
Premiere: March, 1985. Maison de la Culture. Grenoble, France
Tours: USA, England, France, Belgium, Spain, Germany, Austria, Holland, Japan
Commissioned Music: David Linton, The Simpleton’s Guide to the World’s Greatest Music
Costumes and Lighting Design: Charles Atlas
Dancers: Karole Armitage and Joseph Lennon
The Mollino Room - Dance
Company: American Ballet Theatre
Commissioned by Mikhail Baryshnikov, Artistic Director American Ballet Theatre
Venue: The Kennedy Center. Washington, D.C.
Tours: USA
Choreography: Karole Armitage
Music: Paul Hindemith and comedy routine by Nicholas and May
Set and Costumes: David Salle
Lighting Design: Jennifer Tipton
Dancers
The South Bank Show - Documentary Film
A 60 minute documentary of the work of Karole Armitage.
Director: David Hinton
Producer: London Weekend Television, London, England
1984
Tasmanian Devil - Dance
Company: Tasmanian Dance Company
Premiere: Tasmania
Tours: Australia
Choreography: Karole Armitage
GV-10 - Dance
Company: Ballet de l'Opéra de Paris
Fesstival d’Avignon
Venue: Cour d’honneur du palair du Papes, Avignon, France.
Premiere: July 4, 1984
Tours: Paris, Greece
Choreography: Karole Armitage
Music: Kahlheinz Stockhausen
Costumes, Set and Lighting: Charles Atlas
Dancers: Carole Arbo, Karole Armtiage, Fabrice Boiurgeois, Jean-Claud Ciappara Martine Claruy Fabienne Compet, Jean-Marie Didière, Hervé Dirmann, Renaud Fauviau, Fanny Gaïda. Katie Grey, Isabelle Guérirn, Sylvie Guillem, Jean Guizerix, Ludovic Heiden, Florence Lambert, Françoise Legrée. Bruno Lehaut, Jean-Christophe Paré, Oliver Patey, Ivam Perrono, Élizabeth Platel, Nathalie Riqué, Jean-Hughes Tanto, GéraldineTestut
Ex-Romance - a dance film made for WGBH Television Boston
Company: Armitage Pickup Group
Director: Charles Atlas
Music: Jeffrey Lohn
Costumes: Charles Atlas
Dancers
1983
The Last Gone Dance - Dance
Company: Armitage Pickup Group
Venue: Théâtre de la Ville, Paris, France
Premiere: April 6, 1983
Tours: France, USA
Choreography: Karole Armitage
Music: David Linton, The Last Gone Dance
Drums and Sampler: David Linton
Costume, Set and Lighting Design: Charles Atlas
Dancers: Karole Armitage and Michael Clark
Paradise 2 - Dance
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance
Venue: Sigma de Bordeaux, France
Premiere: November 14, 1983
Tours: France, USA. Festival de l’Automne Paris, Théâtre de Paris, Paris, France;.Nouveau Théâtre de Nice, Nice, France; Maison de la Culture de Grenoble, Genoble, France.
Music: Jeffrey Lohn, Paradise
Musicians: Steve Antonelli, George Arevalo, Jay Elfbein, Jeffrey Lohn, Tim Mukherjee, Amy Reich, Rich Robinson, Jeff Siegel
Costumes, Set and Lighting Design: Charles Atlas
Dancers: Karole Armitage, Susan Blankensop, Lita Bossert, John Erdman, Muriel Favaro, Brenda McPherson, Danielle Tiletnick
Duck Dances - Dance
Company: Armitage Pickup Group
Venue: La MaMa Theater. New York City
Premiere: July 8, 1982
Choreography: Karole Armitage
Music: Jeffrey Lohn, Duck Dances
Costume: Charles Atlas
Dancers: Karole Armitage, Donald Byrd
It Happened At Club Bombay Cinema - Dance
Company: Extemporary Dance Company London, England.
Venue: The Place, London, England
Premiere: Fegbruary 16, 1983
Tours: England
Music: various, including Indian Bollywood movie music.
Choreography: Karole Armitage
Dancers: Lloyd Newsom, Anneliese Stoffel and others
1982
Drastic-Classicism Tour 2 - Dance with live music on stage
Company: Armitage Pickup Group
Venue:
Premiere: February 10, 1981
Tours: France (Paris, Grenoble, Bordeaux, Lyon), Italy (Rome, Naples) Spain, Portugal (Porto, Lisbon)
Choreography: Karole Armitage
Music: Rhys Chatham, Drastic-Classicism
Musicians: Tim Schellenbaum, Truus de Groot, Rhys Chathan electric guitars, Craig Kafton electric bass, Fred Maher on drums.
Costumes and Lighting Design: Charles Atlas
Dancers: Karole Armitage, Rob Besserer, Michael Clark, Isabelle Marteau
Casse-Noisette (The Nutcracker Ballet) - Dance
Company: Ballet de l'Opéra de Paris
George-François Hirsch CoDirector l'Opéra de Paris
Rosella Hightower, Ballet Director
Venue: Théâtre de l'Opéra de Paris, Sale Garnier Paris, France
Premiere: December 24, 1982
Choreography: Rosella Hightower with Karole Armitage
Dancers:
Parafango - a dance film made for WGBH Television Boston
Company: Armitage Pickup Group
Director: Charles Atlas
Choreography: Karole Armitage
Music: David Linton
Costumes: Charles Atlas
Dancers
Slaughter on MacDougal Street - Dance
Company: Group de Recherche de l’Opéra de Paris
Jacques Garnier, Artistic Director
Venue: Festival de la Danse Centre de Rencontres Chateauvallon, France
Premiere: July 9 (?), 1982
Tours: France
Choreography: Karole Armitage
Music: Rhys Chatham
Costumes, Set: Charles Atlas
Lighting Design: Daniel Brochier
Dancers: Karole Armitage, Jean Claude Ciappara, Martine Clary, Florence Claudet, Serge Daubrac, Renaud Fauviau, Katia Grey, Jean Guizerix, Florence Lambert, Bruno Lehaut, Fabienne Ozannne, Jean-Christophe Paré, Anne Pruvost, Jean Hughes Tantot
Paradise 1 - Dance
Company: Armitage Pickup Group
Venue: Ukrainian Ballroom. New York City
Premiere: February 28, 1982
Choreography: Karole Armitage
Dancers: Karole Armitage, Michael Blake, Michael Clark, Susan Eschelbach, Muriel Favaro, Ralph Paul Haze, Isabelle Marteau, Edgar Newman
1981
Drastic-Classicism - Dance with live music on stage
Company: Armitage Pickup Group
Venue: Dance Theater Workshop, New York City
Premiere: February 10, 1981
Tours: France (Nancy), England (London) Austria, Holland, USA, Spain, Italy, Switzerland
Choreography: Karole Armitage
Music: Rhys Chatham, Drastic-Classicism
Musicians: Nina Canal, Rhys Chatham, Scott Johnson, Ned Sublette, Electric Guitar; David Linton, Drums
Costumes and Lighting Design: Charles Atlas
Dancers: Karole Armitage, Michael Bloom, Joseph Lennon, Chris Komar, Nathalie Richard, Deborah Riley
1980
Vertige - Dance with live music on stage
Company: Armitage Pickup Group
Venue: Tier 3, New York City
Tours: France, England, Holland, Austria, Italy, Germany, USA, Switzerland
Choreography: Karole Armitage
Music: Rhys Chatham, Vertige
Guitar: Rhys Chatham
Costumes and Lighting Design: Charles Atlas
Dancer: Karole Armitage
1979
Do We Could - Dance
Company: Armitage Pickup Group
Eric Bagosian, Dance Curator The Kitchen
Venue: The Kitchen. New York City
Premiere:
Performed: Chateauvallon, France
Choreography: Karole Armitage
Costumes: Charles Atlas
Dancers: Karole Armitage, Michael Bloom, Deborah Riley, Peter Rose
1978
Ne - Dance
Company: Armitage Pickup Group
Venue: St. Francis Xavier High School gym. New York City
Premiere:
Choreography: Karole Armitage
Live Music: The THE
Set and Costumes: Christian Marclay
Dancers: Karole Armitage, Michael Bloom, Kyle de Camp
