Karole Armitage: Artistic Director, Choreographer, Opera Director, Film Director

Karole Armitage - Artistic Director and Resident Choroegrapher

1985-1989: Director, The Armitage Ballet. New York City
1995-1998: Director, MaggioDanza. 49 dancers. Teatro Comunale. Florence, Italy.
1999-2002: Resident Choreographer. Ballet de Lorraine. 26 dancers. Nancy, France.
2004: Director, the Venice Biennale International Festival of Contemporary Dance. Venice, Italy.
2004-2022: Director, Armitage Gone! Dance Company, New York City

Karole Armitage  - List of Works from 1978 - 2025

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 and MIT Media Lab
Venue: UCLA Nimoy Theater Los Angele, California
Premiere: May 18, 2025
Music: Tod Machover
Conductor: Neal Stuhlberg
Direction and Choreography: Karole Armitage
Librettist: Simon Robson
Sound Design: Ben Bloomberg
Media and Projection Design: Peter Torpey
Set Design: Tanya Orellana
Costume Design: Molly Irelan
Light Design: Pablo Santiago
Wig and Make-up Design: Patricia Lopez
Prop Manager: Brittany White
Arnold Schoenberg: Omar Ebrahim
Boy: Jon Lee Keenan.
Girl: Anna Davidson

Women in the World of Dance – Digital Galley Exhibit
March 14-April 18, 2025
Text on Karole Armitage by Laura Regensdorf

Middle Plane Magazine Issue 10
Feature on Karole Armitage with photos by Roni Monhati and Interview by Michael Clark
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: Waubaunsee County Kansas
January 30, 2025
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
Venue: The Shed, New York City
May 18, 2024
Choreography: Karole Armitage
Music: Tony Conrad, From the Side of Man and Womankind
Costumes: Karole Armitage
Dancers: Megan LeCrone

Mirror World Study – Dance
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
Venue: Tisch School of the Arts, Jack Crystal Theater, New York City
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
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
Installation Design: Clifton Taylor
Costume Design: David Salle and Peter Speliopoulos
Lighting Design: Clifton Taylor
Dancers: Vienna Opera Ballet

Movement Workshop - Opera
Jan 28-Feb. 1, 2024
Venue: Washington National Opera, Washington, D.C
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.
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. Mezzosoprano Joyce di Donato performed the role of fictional dendrologist, Dr. Patricia Westerford based on real world scientist Dr. Suzanne Simard.
Company: 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
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
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
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.  
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
Lighting: Tusbasa Kamei
Dancers: Karole Armitage, Sierra French, Alonso Guzman, Isaac Kerr, Kali Marie Oliver, Cristian Laverde-Koenig, Jock Soto, Kara Walsh

2021

Killer - Dance
Venue: Covid "Bubble Residency" Mount Tremper, Phoenicia, New York
September 8-13, 2021
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

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
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
FCompany: 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
Music: Steve Mackey with pianist Anton Batagov

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
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
Venue: Emerson Paramount Center, Boston, Massachusetts
Premiere: November 14, 2018
Music: Tod Machover, Schoenberg in Hollywood
Conductor: David Angus
Direction and Choreography: Karole Armitage
Librettist: Simon Robson
Sound Design: Ben Bloomberg
Media and Projection Design: Peter Torpey
Set Design: Simon Higlett
Costume Design: Nancy Leary
Light 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!
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
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
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: 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
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
Armitage curates evening of important philosophies and techniques of 20th and 21st Century American Dance
Premiere: August 6, 2016
Ravello Festival, Ravello, Italy
Venue: Belvedere di Villa Rufolo, 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
Ligeti Essays (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 and 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 lyrics by Dubose Heyward, Summertime
   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 Stavinsky, 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: Boston Ballet
Director: Mikko Nissinen
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 - Dance
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance with Harvard Dance Students
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
Director: Roel Voorintholt
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, Brooke Newman, Jorge Pérez Martínez, Steven Pinhero de Almeida, Kim van der Put, Elisa Rudolf, Pascal Schut, Vencenzo Turiano, Angelica Villalon, Nienke Wins, Aaron Kok, Hayden Idrus Blanche Godivier

2015

Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies – Research Fellowship
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
Directors: Jane Moss White Lights Festival; Alistair Spaulding, 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
Artistic and General Director Opera Saratoga, Lawrence Edelson
Director National Museum of Dance, Raul Martinez
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 
The Armitage Foundation
Venue: National Museum of Dance, Saratoga Springs, New York
Director: Raul Martinez
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
Artistic and General Director: Stéphane Lissner
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: Roberto Venturi
Orfeo: Daniela Barcellona
Euridice: Cinzia Forte
Amore: Giuseppina Bridelli
Dancers: Ballet of Teatro di San Carlo

On The Nature of Things - Site Specific Dance with Narrator
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance with the American Museum of Natural History
American Museum of Natural History Curator, Rob DeSalle
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
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 0,1; 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
Curator: Jeffrey Deitch
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 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.

Exhibition and Celebration of David Salle’s Contributions to The Armitage Ballet and Gone! Dance
Curator: Jeffrey Deitch
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 an 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.he exhibition honored the invaluable contributions David Salle made to the Armitage Ballet and Armitage Gone! Dance over several decades.

Thomas Adès: See the Music, Hear the Dance
Company: Sadler’s Wells Theatre with Armitage Gone! Dance
Artistic Director: Alistair Spauling
Venue: Sadler’s Wells Theatre, London, England
Premiere Oct. 30, 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
Venue: The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology
Curator: Dr. Valerie Steele
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
Artistic and Executive Director: Mike Ross
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: New York Philharmonic and 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 Getza: 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
Director: William Whitener
Premiere May 3, 2013
Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts Kansas City, Missouri
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: Kaleena Burks, Sarah Chun, Rachel Coats, Caroline Dahm, Michael Davis, Arielle Espie, Travis Guerin, Nadia Iozzo, Geoffrey Kropp, Anthony Krutzkamp, Jill Marlow, Charles Martin, Eric Mazzie, Tempe Ostergren, Logan Pachciarz, Taryn Pachciarz, Ian Poulis, Yoshiya Sakuri, Angelina Sasone, Laura Vernaci, Molly Wagner, Craig Wasserman, Sarah Wolborn

Mechanics of the Dance Machine - Dance
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance
Premiere: January 31, 2013.
New York Live Arts. New York City
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 was awarded a creative residency for 2012 at the Chinati Foundation, Marfa, Texas

Marie Antoinette (Version 2) - Theater
Company: Yale Repertory Theater and American Repertory Theater
Premiere: October 26, 2012
Yale Repertory Theater, Yale University. New Haven, Connecticut
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
Premiere: September 1, 2012
American Repertory Theater, Harvard University. Cambridge, Massachusetts
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
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: Gyorgy 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, Courtsey 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
Music: David Shea
Costumes: Peter Spelioupolos
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
Premiere: April 19, 2012. Cirque de Soleil Tent. Montreal, Canada
Company: Cirque du Soleil
Director: Diane Paulus
Circus Performer Staging: Karole Armitage

2011

Death and the Powers – Opera
Company: American Repertory Theater, Harvard University and 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
Unrealized musical film shot in Beijing over several months, based on Russian film, The Thief, with a creative team from Russia, China and the US.
Canum Productions. Beijing, China
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 Residency
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance and Vineyard Arts Project
Ashley Melone, Director Vineyard Arts Project
Choreography: Karole Armitage
Showcase: August 27, 2012
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
Premiere: July 15, 2011
Performance Venue. SummerStage, Central Park, New York City
Music: Vijay Iyer, Uneasy
Musicians: Vijay Iyer, electric piano; Okkyung Lee, cello; Liberty Ellman, guitar, Kassa Overal, drums
Costume Concept: Doug Fitch
Light 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: NY Philharmonic, Giants Are Small, Edouard Getaz
Premiere: June 22, 2011
Venue: Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center, New York City
Music: Leoš Janáček, The Cunning Little Vixen
Conductor: Alan Gilbert
Director: Doug Fitch
Choreography: Karorle Armitage
Scenic Design: Doug Fitch and GW Mercier
Costume Design: Doug Fitch
Lighting Deisng: 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
Premiere: April 26, 2011.
Theater: The Joyce Theater, New York CIty
Music: Lois V Vierk, Go Guitars, Red Shift
Costumes: 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
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance
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, Gyögry 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!
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.
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance
Venue: Abrons Art Center, Henry Street Settlement, Playhouse Theater, New York City
Director: Jay Wegman
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, Guitar; Lukas Ligeti, Drums; Maï Lingani, Vocals and Dance; Pyrolator/Kurt Dahlke, Electronics; Wende, Dance; Zoko Zoko Dance
Dancers: Leonides D. Arpon, Kristina Bethel-Blunt, Sean Hilton, Wlliam Isaac, Abbey Roesner, Bennyroyce Royon, Marlon Taylor-Wiles, Emily Wagner, Mei-Hua Wang, Masayo Yamaguchi

2010

Three Theories - Dance
Premiere: April 6, 2010. Krannert Center for the Performing Arts at the University of Illinois at Urban-Champaign, Illinois.
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance
Music: John Luther Adams, Rhys Chatham, Sangeeta Shakar
Costumes: Deanna Berg MacLean
Lighting: Clifton Taylor
Three Theories has been created with commissioning support from the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts at the University of Illinois at Urban-Champaign and the Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire

Itutu - Dance with live African Pop Band on stage
Premiere: November 4, 2009 Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, New York
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance
Music: Burkina Electric and band member Lukas Ligeti
Set and fabric design: Philip Taaffe
Costumes: Peter Speliopoulos
Lighting: Clifton Taylor
Commissioned by BAM 2009 Next Wave Festival

The Blue Rider - Dance with Mezzosoprano on stage
Premiere: September 25, 2009 The Miller Theatre, Columbia University, New York City
Director: Sarah Rothenberg
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance
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

It’s Gonna Get Loud - Dance
Premiere: September 24, 2009 The Rose Wagner Theater. Salt Lake City, Utah
Company: The Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company
Music: Rhys Chatham Guitar Trio

Made in Naples - Dance
Premiere: June 24, 2009 Teatro San Ferdinando. Naples, Italy
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance
Music: various
Set: Karen Kilimnik
Costumes: Alba Clemente
Made in Naples was created for Napoli Teatro Festival Italia, the work was produced by Napoli Teatro Festival Italia in co-production with Armitage Gone! Dance.

Summer of Love - Dance
Premiere: May 21, 2009 Teatro Bellini. Catania, Italy
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance
Music: Burkina Electric and Lukas Ligeti
Costumes: Peter Speliopoulos
Lighting: Clifton Taylor
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. 

Arctic Song - Dance
Premiere: May 7, 2009 The Lyric Theater, Kansas City, Missouri
Company: Kansas City Ballet
Music: Einojuhani Rautavaara, Cantus Articus
Costumes: Jennifer Carroll and Lily Walker
Lighting: Kirk Bookman

Drastic-Classicism (1981, revised 2009) - Dance with live electric guitars and drums on stage
Premiere: March 4, 2009 The Kitchen, New York City
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance
Original Score: Rhys Chatham
Costumes: Peter Speliopoulos and Karen Young
Lighting: Clifton Taylor

The Watteau Duets (1985, revised 2009) - Dance with live music and performance on stage
Premiere: March 4, 2009 The Kitchen, New York City
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance
Original Score : David Linton, The Simpleton’s Guide to the World’s Greatest Music
Costumes: Charles Atlas and Peter Speliopoulos
Lighting: Clifton Taylor

Wild Thing (revival) - Dance
Premiere: March 4, 2009 The Kitchen, New York City
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance
Music: Jimi Hendrix
Set: Jeff Koons
Costumes: David Salle
Lighting: Clifton Taylor

Mashup - Dance
Premiere: March 4, 2009 The Kitchen, New York City
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance
Original Score: Daniel Iglesia
Costumes:Peter Speliopoulos
Lighting: Clifton Taylor

Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical 
Broadway Premiere: March 31, 2009 Al Hirschfeld Theater, New York City
New York Shakespeare Festival
Book and Lyrics: Gerome Ragni & James Rado
Music: Galt MacDermot
Director: Diane Paulus
Choreography: Karole Armitage

2008

Between the Clock and the Bed - Dance
Premiere: Nov 1, 2008 Stadttheater Bern, Switzerland
Company: Ballet of the Stadttheater Bern
Music: Leos Janacek, Suita
Set and Costumes: Julia Hanson
Lighting: Jon Clark

Summer of Love (open air preview) - Dance
Premiere: August 8, 2008 Damrosch Park, New York City
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance
Music: Burkina Electric and Lukas Ligeti
Costumes: Peter Speliopoulos

Ariadne Unhinged - Opera
Premiere: May 7, 2008 Abrons Art Center, New York City
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance
Music: Monteverdi, Lamento d’Arianna
Haydn, Arianna a Naxos
Schoenberg, Pierrot Lunaire
Direction & Choreography: Karole Armitage
Set: Vera Lutter
Props: Donald Baechler
Costumes: Peter Speliopoulos
Lighting: Clifton Taylor
Soprano: Emily Langford Johnson altenating with Brenda Patterson
Produced by Gotham Chamber Opera

Orfeo ed Euridice - Opera
Company: San Carlo Opera House
Premiere: April 3, 2008. Teatro di San Carlo, Naples, Italy
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: Roberto Venturi
Orfeo: Daniela Barcellona
Euridice: Carmela Remigio
Amore: Rachel Harnish

Passing Strange - Musical 
Premiere: February 28, 2008 Belasco Theater, New York City
Books and lyrics: STEW
Music: Stew & Heidi Rodenwald
Directed by and Created in Collaboration with Annie Dorsen
Choreography: Karole Armitage

Connoisseurs of Chaos - Dance 
Premiere: January 22, 2008 Joyce Theater, New York City
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance
Music: Morton Feldman - Patterns in a Chromatic Field (1981)
Set: David Salle
Costumes: Peter Speliopoulos
Lighting: Clifton Taylor

2007 

Connoisseurs of Chaos - Dance
Premiere: January 22, 2008 Joyce Theater, New York City
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance
Music: Morton Feldman - Patterns in a Chromatic Field (1981)
Set: David Salle
Costumes: Peter Speliopoulos
Lighting: Clifton Taylor

Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical
The 40th Anniversary Concert Performance
Premiere: September 22, 2007 The Delacorte Theater Central Park, New York City
Book and Lyrics by Gerome Ragni & James Rado
Music by Galt MacDermot
Directed by Diane Paulus
Choreography by Karole Armitage
Produced by The Public Theater

Gran Partita - Dance
Premiere May 26, 2007 Sadler’s Wells Theater London, England
Company: Rambert Dance Company
Music: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart “Gran Partita”
Design: Jean Marc Puissant
Lighting Design: Giuseppe di Lorio
Conductor: Paul Hoskins

Passing Strange - Musical
Premiere: May 14, 2007 The Public Theater, New York City
Books and Lyrics: Stew
Music: Steve and Heidi Rodewald
Directed and created in collaboration with Annie Dorsen
Scenic Design: David Korins
Costume Design: Elizabeth Hope Clancy
Lighting Design: Kevin Adams
Sound Design: Tony Smolenski IV
Movement Coordinator: Karole Armitage
Musical Director: Heidi Rodewald
Musical Supervisor: Jon Spurney

Gathering His Thoughts - Dance
Premiere: May 1, 2007 Washington, DC
Company: Washington Ballet
Music: Hamlet soliloquy performed by Richard Burton with music by Daniel Iglesia

Ligeti Essays (Songs and Instumental music) - Dance
Premiere: February 6,2007 Joyce Theater, New York City
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance
Music: György Ligeti
Sippal, dobbal, nádihegedüvel – With pipes drums and
fiddles (2000);
Harom Weöres-dal – Three Melodies by Weöres (1946-
1947);
Négy lakodalmi Tánc – Wedding Songs (1950)
Der Sommer – Summer lyrics by Hölderlin (1989)
Négy lakodalmi Tánc – Wedding Songs (1950)
Hamburg Concerto (1989-99, revised 2003)
Musica ricercata (1953)
Set Design: David Salle
Installation Design: Clifton Taylor
Costume Design: David Salle and Peter Speliopoulos
Lighting Design: Clifton Taylor             

2006

Gamelan Gardens - Dance
Premiere: December 1, 2006.
New York City Center, New York City
Company: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
Music: Lou Harrison "Double Concerto for Violin, Cello, with Javanese Gamelan"
Set: David Salle and Clifton Taylor
Costumes: Peter Spelioupoulos
Lighting: Clifton Taylor  

Scenes from A Country Bunny - Dance with Narration
July 2006, Charleston, South Carolina, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Sugar Hill Harlem, New York City
Music: Richard Robbins
Story: Maya Angelou
Choreography: Karole Armitage

Visual Brainstorming Premiere: March 26th, 2006 - Dance
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City 
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance
Music: Gérard Pesson
Costumes: Peter Spelioupoulos
Produced by: Works and Process / Mary Sharp Cronson  

Cantus Articus (Workshop) - Dance
Premiere: March 30, 2006 NYU Tisch School of the Arts, New York City
Company: NYU Students: Second Avenue Dance Company
Music: Einojuhani Rautavaara, “Cantus Articus, Concerto for Birds and Orchestra”
Lighting Design: Dans Sheehan
Costume Design: Amanda Buja

2005

In this dream that dogs me - Dance
Premiere: November 30, 2005.
The Duke on 42nd Street Theater New York City
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance
Music: Annie Gosfield
Set: David Salle
Costumes: Peter Speliopoulos

Ligeti Essays (Songs) - Dance
Company: Ballet de Lorraine
Music: Gyorgy Ligeti
Set Design: David Salle
Installation Design: Clifton Taylor
Costume Design: David Salle and Peter Speliopoulos
Lighting Design: Clifton Taylor

The White Countess - Film
Feature film directed by James Ivory. Merchant Ivory Productions. Filmed Shanghai, China

2004

Pigmalion - Opera
Company: Opera House Nancy France and Ballet de Lorraine, Nancy, France
Music: Jean-Philippe Rameau
Direction and Choreography: Karole Armitage
Set: David Salle
Costumes: Peter Speliopoulos
Dramaturge: Stefano Paba
Location: Opera de Nancy et de Lorraine, France
Dates of Performance: Dec. 17- Dec. 31, 2004
Touring: Theatre de Chatelet Paris, June 12-15, 2005      

10 Poems - Dance
Company: ABCDance Company.
Premiere: May 27, 2004. St. Polten, Austria.
Music: Gyorgy Ligeti.
Costumes: Peter Speliopoulos.

The Double Life of Zefirino - Opera
Countertenor: Anthony Roth Costanzo.
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance.
Premiere: May 5, 2004.  McCaerter Theater Princeton University, New Jersey.
Music: Handel, Gluck, Pergolesi, Vivaldi.
Costumes: James Ivory.
Set: Andrea Branzi.
Lighting: Aaron Copp.

Time is the echo of an axe within wood - Dance
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance
Premiere: March 2, 2004. Joyce Theater, New York City
Music: Bela Bartok, Gavin Bryars, Annie Gosfield and Roger Klier, Charles Ives
Costumes: Peter Speliopoulos
Set: David Salle
Lighting: Clifton Taylor

2003 

Living Toys - Dance
Company: Rambert Dance Company
Premiere: May 29, 2003. Glasgow, Scotland
Music: Thomas Adès
Costumes: Peter Speliopoulos.
Lighting: Clifton Taylor    

Orfeo ed Euridice - Opera
Company: San Carlo Opera Chorus and Ballet, Naples, Italy
Premiere: Oct. 29, 2003. Teatro di San Carlo Naples, Italy
Music: Christoph Willibald Gluck, Orfeo Ed Euridice
Conductor: Julian Kovatchev
Direction and Choreography: Karole Armitage
Set: Brice Marden.
Costumes: Peter Speliopoulos
Dramaturge: Stefano Paba
Lighting: Roberto Venturi
Orfeo: Elena Cassin
Euridice: Anna Laura Longo.
Amore: Danielle De Niese

2002

Broken Glass - Dance
Company: Florence Dance Company.
Premiere: Dec. 5, 2002. Teatro Goldoni. Florence, Italy.
Music: Salvatore Sciarrino, Thomas Adès, Philip Glass.
Costumes: Peter Speliopoulos.

Bluebeard's Castle - Opera
Opera in 1 Act: Co-production Opéra de Nancy and Ballet de Lorraine
Premiere: Oct. 18, 2002. Théatre de l'Opéra. Nancy, France
Music: Bela Bartok
Costumes: Peter Speliopoulos
Set: Andrea Branzi
Lighting: Roberto Venturi
Dramaturge: Stefano Paba
Bluebeard: Czaba Arizier
Judith: Natasha Petrinsky

SZ110 - Dance
Company: Ballet de Lorraine
Premiere: Oct. 18, 2002. Théatre de l'Opéra. Nancy, France
Music: Bela Bartok Sonata for 2 Pianos and Percussion
Costumes: Peter Speliopoulos
Set: Andrea Branzi
Lighting: Roberto Venturi

Pinokkio - Dance
Company: Introdans
Premiere: September 13, 2002. Schouwburg Orpheus, Apeldoorn, Holland
Music: Pino Minafra
Costumes: Jean Paul Gaultier
Set: Andrea Branzi
Lighting: Roberto Venturi

Sonata da Caccia - Dance
Company: Ballet de Lorraine; Revised for Florence Dance Company Dec. 2002
Premiere: June 2002. Mexico
Music: Thomas Adès
Costumes: Peter Speliopoulos

Melodien - Dance
Company: Ballet de Lorraine
Premiere: May 22, 2002. Théatre de l'Opéra. Nancy, France
Music: Gyorgi Ligeti
Costumes: Peter Speliopoulos
Lighting: Clifton Taylor   

2001 

Rave - Dance
Company: Ballet de Lorraine. Nancy, France
Premiere: November 28, 2001. Théatre de l'Opéra. Nancy, France
Music: David Shea
Costumes: Peter Speliopoulos
Lighting: Clifton Taylor

Power Surge - Dance
Company: University of Kansas Dance Department
Premiere: November 2001 The Leid Center, Lawrence Kansas

Drastic Remix - Dance
Company: Ballet de Lorraine. Nancy, France
Premiere: June 14, 2000. Théatre de l'Opéra. Nancy, France
Music: David Shea after original music by Rhys Chatham
Costumes: Peter Speliopoulos
Lighting: Roberto Venturi  

Technaria - Dance
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance
Premiere: January 23, 2001. Joyce Theater New York City
Music: David Shea
Tours: France, Italy
Costumes: Peter Speliopoulos
Lighting: Burke Wilmore 

2000

Schrodingers Cat - Dance
Company: Ballet de Lorraine. Nancy, France
Premiere: November 7, 2000. Théatre de l'Opéra. Nancy, France
Tours: France, Italy, New York
Music: Gerard Hourbette with Art Zoyd
Costumes: Peter Speliopoulos
Lighting: Thibault Leblanc

Concerto Conciso - Dance
Company: Ballet National de Cuba.
Premiere: Oct. 21, 2000. Teatro Garcia Lorca. Havana, Cuba
Music: Thomas Adès

Tango Mortale - Dance
Premiere: June 24, 2000. Teatro Antico. Taormina, Sicily
Tours: Italy, Greece, New York
Music: Thomas Adès
Costumes: Arjun Bhasin

Yo, Giacomo Casanova - Dance
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance
Premiere: June 24, 2000. Teatro Antico. Taormina, Sicily
Tours: Italy and Greece
Music: Thomas Adès, Yorgos Couroupos, Alfred Schnittke, David Shea, Giovanni Sollima, John Zorn.
Singer: Anthony Roth Costanzo
Costumes: Arjun Bhasin and Peter Speliopoulos
Set: Andrea Branzi
Lighting: AJ Weisbard

The Birds - Opera
Company: Greek National Opera Ballet
Premiere: July 26, 2000. Irodion Theater, The Acropolis, Athens, Greece
Music: Manos Hadjidakis
Costumes: Peter Speliopoulos

The Golden Bowl - Film 
Feature film directed by James Ivory. Merchant Ivory Productions. Filmed Paris, France

1999

The Last Lap - Dance
Company: White Oak Project
Premiere: August 10, 1999 The New Victory Theater, New York City
Music: Dmitri Shostakovich excerpt from the Piano Quintet
Costumes: David Salle
Lighting: David Finn

Life Story
Company: Wendy Whelan and Albert Evans of New York City Ballet for “Stars of New York”
Premiere: August 7, 1999 Royal Festival Hall, London, England
Music: Thomas Adès
Libretto: Tennessee Williams from In The Winter of Cities
Costumes: David Salle
Lighting: Perry Silvey

Up At the Villa - Film
Feature film directed by Phillip Haas. Filmed in Tuscany, Italy. 

1998

Pinocchio - Dance
Company: MaggioDanza di Firenze
Premiere: June 11, 1998 Teatro della Pergola, Florence, Italy
Music: Giancarlo Schiaffini
Set: Andrea Branzi
Costumes: Jean Paul Gaultier
Lighting: Roberto Venturi    

Nadaswaram - Dance
Company: MaggioDanza di Firenze
Premiere: March 13, 1998. Bastia, Corsica France
Music: "Samagan Lole" for Nadaswaram performed by Dr. Namagiripettai Krishnan. (Carnatic Classical Music from Southern India) 

Wild Ballerina - Documentary
1 Hour Feature documentary on Karole Armitage
Directed by Mark Kidel
Produced by Serge Lalou Les Films d'Ici, Reiner Moritz Productions

Mirror's Edge - Dance
Company: Ballet de Monte Carlo
Premiere: December 20, 1998. Opera de Monte Carlo, Monaco
Music: Michael Galasso
Costumes: Alpana Bawa
Lighting: Dominique Bruguière 

1997

Weather of Reality - Dance with live music on stage
Company: MaggioDanza di Firenze
Premiere: February 11, 1997 Teatro Comunale Florence, Italy
Music: DJ Ski
Costumes: Pilar Limosner
Lighting: Mark McCullough

Tersicore - Opera 
Company: MaggioDanza di Firenze
Premiere: May 11, 1997 Teatro della Pergola Florence, Italy
Music: George Frederick Handel
Sets and Costumes: James Ivory
Lighting: Roberto Venturi and Dominique Bruguière
Director of Baroque Orchestra: David Bahanovich
Soprano: Sophie Daneman
Bass: Roberto Scaltriti

Apollo e Dafne - Opera 
Company: MaggioDanza di Firenze. Florence, Italy
Premiere: May 11, 1997 Teatro della Pergola Florence, Italy
Music: George Frederick Handel
Sets and Costumes: James Ivory
Lighting: Roberto Venturi Dominique Bruguière
Director of Baroque Orchestra: David Bahanovich
Soprano: Sophie Daneman
Bass: Roberto Scaltriti

1996

The Predators' Ball - Dance with Rap and Theater
Company: MaggioDanza di Firenze and Guest Actors, Rappers Voguers
Premiere: June 11, 1996. Teatro della Pergola, Florence, Italy
Text: Joe Sutton and John Gould Rubin
Music: Jason Robert Brown, David Shea, DJ Ski
Costumes: Hugo Boss, Pilar Limosner, Debra Moises Co.
Design: David Salle, Jeff Koons
Motion Animation Video: Erica Beckman
Lighting: Pat Dignan

The Predators' Ball/ Hucksters of the Soul - Dance with Rap and Theater
Company: MaggioDanza di Firenze and Guest Actors, Rappers Voguers
Premiere: Oct. 11, 1996. Brooklyn Academy of Music: Brooklyn, N.Y.
Text: John Gould Rubin
Music: Phillip Johnston, David Shea, DJ Ski
Costumes: Hugo Boss, Pilar Limosner, Debra Moises Co.
Design: David Salle
Motion Animation Video: Erica Beckman
Lighting: Pat Dignan

1995

Scheherazade - Dance 
Company: MaggioDanza di Firenze
Premiere: Oct. 1995 Teatro Comunale. Florence, Italy
Music: David Shea and Rimsky-Korsakov
Set: Philip Taaffe
Costumes: Pilar Limosner
Lighting: Pat Dignan

1994

Hovering at the Edge of Chaos - Dance
Company: Oregon Ballet Theater
Premiere: May 13, 1994. Portland, Oregon
Music: Noh Traditional, Australian House, Rai by Khaled, Brazilian Rap, 808 State, John Zorn, Japanese pop

Tattoo and Tutu - Dance
Company: Ballet of Bayerische Statsoper Munich., Germany
Premiere: May 17, 1994. Statsoper. Munich, Germany
Music: Shocklee Brothers
Costumes: Pilar Limosner
Lighting: Pat Dignan

The Dog Is Us - Dance
Company: Ballet of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Germany and 6 standard poodles
Premiere June 11, 1994. Deutsche Oper. Berlin, Germany
Music: Carl Stalling, David Shea, Shocklee Brothers (Public Enemy)
Set: David Salle
Costumes: Pilar Limosner
Lighting: Pat Dignan

The Return of Rasputin - Musical
Choreography for a musical in St. Petersburg, Russia.

Search and Destroy
Feature film directed by David Salle. Filmed in New York CIty. 

1993

Hucksters of the Soul - Dance with rap and narration
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance
Premiere June, 1993. Maison de la Culture, Bobigny. Paris, France. Tours: France, Germany, Italy
Music: David She
Costumes: Pilar Limosner
Set: Karole Armitage
Lighting: Pat Dignan    

I Had A Dream - Dance
Company: Ballet de Monte Carlo; an homage to Balanchine
Premiere: December 25, 1993 Monte Carlo, Monaco
Tours: Italy, France, Tunisia
Music: Denis Gaultier, Marin Marais, Couperin, de Visée; Stravinsky, Ives, Nick Cave
Costumes: Pilar Limosner
Lighting: Pat Dignan

1992

Segunda Piel - Dance
Company: Ballet de Monte Carlo
Premiere: April, 1992. Monte Carlo, Monaco
Tours: Italy, Austria, USA
Music: David Shea
Costumes: Alfredo Viloria

In the Closet - Music Video
Video clip for Michael Jackson featuring Naomi Campbell
Directed by Herb Ritts. Filmed near the Salton Sea, California. 

Happy Birthday Rossini - Dance
Company: MaggioDanza di Firenze. Florence, Italy
Premiere: May, 1992. Teatro della Pergola, Florence, Italy
Tours: Italy
Music: Rossini and David Shea
Set: Mina Albergo
Costumes: Karole Armitage and Alfredo Viloria
Lighting: Pat Dignan

Hall of Mirrors - Film 
Half-hour feature film written, choreographed and directed by KA as part of the American Film Institute's Women Directors Program. 

1991

Vogue - Music Video
Video clip for Madonna
Directed by David Fincher. Filmed in Los Angeles, California

Blonde Ambition - Rock Touring Show
Group: Madonna.
Several numbers for World Tour.

World Tour - Rock Touring Show
Group: The Dyvinals.

Chain of Desire - Film 
Feature film starring Linda Fiorintino.
Directed by Temi Lopez. Filmed in New York City. 

The Marmot Quickstep - Dance
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance (aka Armitage Ballet)
Premiere: July,1991 Center For the Arts. Crested Butte, Colorado
Music: David She.
Costumes: Karole Armitage
Lighting: Pat Dignan

Renegade Dance Wave - Dance
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance (aka Armitage Ballet)
Premiere: July, 1991. Center for the Arts. Crested Butte, Colorado
Tours: USA and Japan
Music: Renegade Sound Wave, 808 State
Costumes: Karole Armitage
Lighting: Pat Dignan

Overboard - Dance
Company: Charleois Danse.
Premiere: December, 1991. Charleois, Belgium.
Music: David Shea.
Lighting: Pat Dignan.       

1990

Forty Guns - Dance
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance (aka Armitage Ballet)
Premiere: August 8, 1990. Center for the Arts. Crested Butte, Colorado
Tours: USA
Music: traditional American
Costumes: Karole Armitage
Lighting: Pat Dignan

Dancing Zappa - Dance
Company: Lyon Opera Ballet.
Premiere: Lyon, France
Music: Frank Zappa
Costumes: Karole Armitage

Jack and Betty - Dance
Company: Les Nomades
Premiere: Lausanne, Switzerland
Tours: France, Italy, Spain, etc.
Music: John Zorn
Costumes: Karole Armitage

Love School - Music Video
Video clip for the Dyvinals. Filmed in Los Angeles, California

World Tour - Rock Touring Show
Milli Vanilli

Various Video Clips 

Kuffs - Film 
Feature film starring Christian Slater
Directed by Bruce Evans. Filmed in Los Angeles, California

1989

Contempt - Dance
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance (aka Armitage Ballet)
Premiere: April 11, 1989. La Quartz. Brest, France
Tours: USA, France, Spain, Italy
Music: Thelonius Monk, Chet Baker, Charles Mingus, Dmitri Shostakovich, Johann Sebastian Bach, John Zorn, Kurt Weil arranged by Gil Evans; Text by Bret Easton Ellis recited by Theresa Russell
Film: David Salle
Set: Jeff Koons and David Salle (Pig constructed by Anne Slavit)
Costumes: David Salle
Lighting: Ken Tabachnick

Without You, I'm Nothing - Film 
Feature film starring Sandra Bernhard.
Directed by John Boskovich. 

1988

Duck Dances - Dance
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance (aka Armitage Ballet)
Premiere: April 30, 1988. Angers, France
Performed: USA, France, Germany, Japan
Music: Jeffrey Lohn
Costumes: David Salle
Lighting: Debra Dumas

Kammerdisco - Dance
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance (aka Armitage Ballet)
Premiere: April 10, 1988. Sao Paolo, Brazil
Performed: France, Germany, Brazil, Portugal
Music: Jeffrey Lohn
Costumes: David Salle
Lighting: Debra Dumas

GoGo Ballerina - Dance
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance (aka Armitage Ballet)
Premiere: November 13, 1988. The World. New York City
Performed: France, Italy, Spain, Portugal
Music: Jimi Hendrix
Sets: Jeff Koons (Pig fabricated by Ann Slavit) 
Costumes: David Salle         

1987

The Tarnished Angels - Dance
Commissioned by Rudolf Nureyev for the Paris Opera Ballet. 
Company: Ballet de l'Opera de Paris; Armitage Ballet.
Premiere with Ballet de l'Opéra de Paris: May 29, 1987. Théâtre de l'Opéra de Paris, France
Premiere with Armitage Ballet: September 10, 1987. Doolittle Theater Los Angeles, California
Tours: USA, France, Germany, Japan, Spain, Brazil, Italy, Belgium
Music: Charles Mingus
Sets: David Salle
Costumes: Christian Lacroix
Lighting: Ken Tabachnick

Les Stances a Sophie - Dance
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance (aka Armitage Ballet)
Guest Artists: Stephanie Saland and Robert LaFosse
Premiere: Joyce Theater. New York City
Music: Art Ensemble of Chicago
Set: Carroll Dunham
Costumes: Pilar Limosner   

1986

The Elizabethan Phrasing of the Late Albert Ayler - Dance
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance (aka Armitage Ballet)
Premiere: September 25, 1986. Eindhoven, Holland
Tours: USA, France, Japan, Spain, Germany, Holland, Italy, Belgium, Brazil, Portugal\
Music: Lord Buckley, Webern, Japanese traditional, Stravinsky, Ayler
Sets and Costumes: David Salle
Lighting: Ken Tabachnick

1985 

The Watteau Duets - Dance with live music and performance on stage
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance (Joseph Lennon and Karole Armitage)
Premiere: March, 1985. Maison de la Culture. Grenoble, France
Tours: USA, England, France, Belgium, Spain, Germany, Austria, Holland, Japan
Music: David Linton
Costumes and Lighting: Charles Atlas

The Mollino Room  - Dance 
Commissioned by Mikhail Baryshnikov for American Ballet Theatre
Company: American Ballet Theatre
Premiere: Kennedy Center. Washington, D.C.
Tours: USA
Music: Paul Hindemith and comedy routine by Nicholas and May
Set and Costumes: David Salle
Lighting: Jennifer Tipton 

The South Bank Show - Documentary Film 
An 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    

GV-10- Dance 
Company: Ballet Théâtre de l'Opéra de Paris
Premiere: Théâtre de l'Opéra Comique. Paris, France.
Tours: Festival d'Avignon, Greece
Music: Stockhausen
Costumes and Lighting: Charles Atlas

Ex-Romance - a dance film made for WGBH Television Boston
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance
Director: Charles Atlas
Music: Jeffrey Lohn
Costumes: Charles Atlas

1983

The Last Gone Dance - Dance 
Company: Karole Armitage and Michael Clark
Premiere: Theatre de la Ville. Paris, France
Tours: France, USA
Music: David Linton
Costumes and Lighting: Charles Atlas

Paradise (Version #2) - Dance 
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance
Premiere: Bordeaux, France
Tours: France, USA
Music: Jeffrey Lohn
Costumes and Lighting: Charles Atlas

1982

A Real Gone Dance - Dance 
Company: Donald Byrd and Karole Armitage
Premiere: La Mama Theater. New York City
Music: Jeffrey Lohn
Costume: Charles Atlas  

The Nutcracker (co-choreographed with Rosella Hightower)
Company: Ballet de l'Opéra de Paris
Premiere: Théâtre de l'Opéra de Paris. Paris, France

Parafango -a dance film made for WGBH Television Boston
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance
Director: Charles Atlas
Music: David Linton
Costumes: Charles Atlas

Slaughter on MacDougal Street - Dance 
Company: Group de Recherche de l'Opera de Paris
Premiere: Chateauvallon, France
Tours: France
Music: Rhys Chatham
Costumes, Set, and Lighting: Charles Atlas

Paradise (Version #1) - Dance 
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance.
Premiere: Ukrainian Ballroom. New York City

1981

Drastic-Classicism - Dance with live music on stage 
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance
Premiere: Dance Theater Workshop, New York City
Tours: France, England, Austria, Holland, USA, Spain, Italy, Switzerland
Music: Rhys Chatham
Costumes and Lighting: Charles Atlas   

It Happened At Club Bombay Cinema - Dance 
Company: Extemporary Dance Company London, England.
Premiere: London, England.
Tours: England
Music: various, including Indian movie music.

1980

Vertige - Dance with live music on stage
Company: Karole Armitage with composer Rhys Chatham
Premiere: Tier 3, New York City
Tours: France, England, Holland, Austria, Italy, Germany, USA, Switzerland
Music: Rhys Chatham
Costumes and Lighting: Charles Atlas

1979

Do We Could - Dance 
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance
Premiere: The Kitchen. New York City
Performed: Chateauvallon, France
Music: none
Costumes: Charles Atlas 

1978

Ne - Dance 
Company: Karole Armitage, Michael Bloom, Kyle de Camp
Premiere: St. Francis Xavier High School gym. New York City
Live Music: The THE
Costumes and Set: Christian Marclay