List of Works
Armitage Choreography 1978 - Present
2015
Dido and Aeneas
Premiere: July 6, 2015 The National Museum of Dance open air courtyard, Saratoga Springs New York
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance, chorus, and singers
Director/Choreograper: Karole Armitage
Costumes: Peter Speliopoulos
Music: Henry Purcell
Dido: Jennifer Johnson Cano
On The Nature of Things
Premiere: March 25, 2015 The Milstein Hall of Ocean Life, The American Museum of Natural History
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance and 30 guest dancers
Original text and live narration: Dr. Paul Ehrlich
Costumes: Capezio
Music: John Luther Adams, Philip Glass, Henryk Gorecki, Michael Gordon, Arvo Part
Lighting Design: Clifton Taylor
2014
Four Seasons- A Spinning Planet
Premiere: November 22, 2014 New York City Center
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance with The Little Orchestra Society
Conductor: James Jordon
Costumes and props: Doug Fitch and Peter Speliopoulos
Music: Antonio Vivaldi, John Adams, Samuel Barber, Jacques Offenbach, Gerhard Richter, Gioacchino Rossini, Albert Roussel, Eric Satie, Dmitri Shostakovich
Lighting Design: Clifton Taylor
EMV (Preview)
Premiere: May 13, 2014 Brooklyn, NY
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance
Music: Tony Conrad
Lighting Design: Clifton Taylor
2013
Fables on Global Warming
Premiere: September 24,, 2013. Krannert Center for the Performing Arts. Urbana, Il.
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance
Music and Lyrics: Corey Dargel
Costumes: Doug Fitch
Lighting Design: Clifton Taylor
A Dancer's Dream
Premiere: June 27, 2013. Avery Fisher Hall. New York.
Company: Sara Means, Amar Ramasar with the New York Philharmonic
Music: Stravinsky
Lighting Design: Clifton Taylor
Mechanics of the Dance Machine
Premiere: January 31, 2013. New York Live Arts. New York.
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance
Music: Gabriel Prokofiev, Craig Leon
Costumes: Deanna Berg
Lighting Design: Clifton Taylor
Marie Antoinette (Version 2)
Premiere: October 2012.Yale Repertory Theater. New Haven. Ct.
Aurthor: David Adjmi
Director: Rebecca Taichman
Marie Antoinette (Version 1)
Premiere: September 2012.ART Harvard. Cambridge, MA
Aurthor: David Adjmi
Director: Rebecca Taichman
2012
Amaluna
Premiere: April 19, 2012. Cirque du Soleil Tent. Montreal Canada.
Company: Cirque du Soleil
Director: Diane Paulus
2011
Un-Easy
Premiere: July 15, 2011. SummerStage. New York.
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance
Music: Vijay Iyer
Gaga-Gaku
Premiere: April 26, 2011. The Joyce Theater. New York.
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance
Music: Lois V Vierk
Costumes: Issey Miyake
Lighting Design: Clifton Taylor
Random Thoughts
Premiere: February 10, 2011. Alvin Ailey American Dance Center Theater. New York.
Dancer: Courtney Henry
Music: Burkina Electric
Costumes: Peter Speliopoulos.
Dancing Exquisite Corpse
Premiere: February 3, 2011. Capitale. New York.
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance
Music: Rhys Chatham, Gyögry Ligeti, David Linton, Marco Messina, The Sex Pistols, Pytor Illyich Tchaikovsky, Lois V. Vierk. Text byTennessee Williams
Costumes: Alba Clemente, Deanna Berg MacLean, Issey Miyake, Peter Speliopoulos.
A site specific work for three stages.
Fractus
Premiere: January 20, 2011. Orange County Center for the Performing Arts. Costa Mesa, California.
Company: The Bolshoi Ballet
Music: Rhys Chatham
Costumes: Igor Chapurin
Moscow Premiere: Jan. 27, 2011. The Bolshoi Theater.
2010
Three Theories
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Premiere: April 6, 2010. Krannert Center for the Performing Arts at the University of Illinois at Urban-Champaign, Illinois. |
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Premiere: April 14, 2010. The Harmon Center. Washington, D.C. Company: The Washington Ballet Music: Johannes Brahms Lighting: Michael Mazzola |
2009
Itutu
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Premiere: November 4, 2009 Brooklyn Academy of Music. 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
Premiere: September 25, 2009 The Miller Theatre. New York.
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
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
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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
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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
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Premiere: May 7, 2009 The Lyric Theater, Kansas City, Mo Company: Kansas City Ballet Music: Einojuhani Rautavaara, Cantus Articus Costumes: Jennifer Carroll and Lily Walker Lighting: Kirk Bookman |
Drastic-Classicism (1981, revised 2009)
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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)
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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)
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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
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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
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On Broadway New York Shakespeare Festival |
2008
Between the Clock and the Bed
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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)
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Premiere: August 8, 2008 Damrosch Park, New York City Company: Armitage Gone! Dance Music: Burkina Electric and Lukas Ligeti Costumes: Peter Speliopoulos |
Ariadne Unhinged
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Premiere: May 7, 2008 Abrons Art Center 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 Produced by Gotham Chamber Opera |
Passing Strange
Premiere: February 28, 2008 Belasco Theater New York
Books and lyrics: STEW
Music: Stew & Heidi Rodenwald
Dirrected by and Created in Collaboration with Annie Dorsen
Choreography: Karole Armitage
Connoisseurs of Chaos
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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
Passing Strange
Berkeley Repertory Theater
Premiere: October 19, 2007 Berkeley California
Books and lyrics: Stew
Music: Stew & Heidi Rodenwald
Dirrected by and Created in Collaboration with Annie Dorsen
Choreography: Karole Armitage
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
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Premiere May 26, 2007 Sadler’s Wells Theater London Company: Rambert Dance Company Music: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart “Gran Partita” Design: Jean Marc Puissant Lighting Design: Giuseppe di Lorio Conductor: Paul Hoskins |
Passing Strange
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Premiere: May 14, 2007 The Public Theater New York Books and Lyrics: Stew Music: Steve and Heidi Rodewald Directed and created in collaboration with Annie Dorsen Scenic Design: David Korins Costume Design: Elizabeth Hope Clancy Lighting Design: Kevin Adams Sound Design: Tony Smolenski IV Movement Coordinator: Karole Armitage Musical Director: Heidi Rodewald Musical Supervisor: Jon Spurney |
Gathering his thoughts
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Premiere: May 1, 2007 Washington, DC Company: Washington Ballet Music: Hamlet soliloquy performed by Richard Burton with music by Daniel Iglesia |
Ligeti Essays (2005, expanded 07)
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Premiere: February 6,2007 Joyce Theater New York City Sippal, dobbal, nádihegedüvel – With pipes drums and fiddles (2000); |
2006
Gamelan Gardens
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Premiere: December 1, 2006. New York City Center, New York, New York. 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
July 2006
Music: Richard Robbins
Story: Maya Angelou
Choreography: Karole Armitage
Visual Brainstorming
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Premiere: March 26th, 2006. The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York. Company: Armitage Gone! Dance. Music: Gérard Pesson. Costumes: Peter Spelioupoulos. Produced by: Works and Process / Mary Sharp Cronson |
Cantus Articus (Workshop)
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
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Premiere: November 30, 2005. The Duke on 42nd Street Theater New York, New York. |
Ligeti Essays (Songs)
Premiere: March 31, 2005 Centre Malraux Vandoeuvres, France
Company: Ballet de Lorraine
Music: Gyorgy Ligeti
Set: David Salle and Clifton Taylor
Costumes: Peter Speliopoulos
Lighting: Clifton Taylor
The White Countess
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Merchant Ivory Productions. Feature film directed by James Ivory. |
2004
Pigmalion
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Company: Opera House Nancy France and Ballet de Lorraine. Music: Jean-Philippe Rameau. Direction and Choreography: Karole Armitage. Set: David Salle. Costumes: Peter Speliopoulos. Dramaturge: Stefano Paba. Location: Opera de Nancy et de Lorraine, France. Dates of Performance: Dec. 17- Dec. 31, 2004. Touring: Theatre de Chatelet Paris, June 12-15, 2005. |
10 Poems
Company: ABCDance Company.
Premiere: May 27, 2004. St. Polten, Austria.
Music: Gyorgy Ligeti.
Costumes: Peter Speliopoulos.
The Double Life of Zefirino
Countertenor: Anthony Roth Costanzo.
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance.
Premiere: May 5, 2004. Princeton, New Jersey.
Music: Handel, Gluck, Pergolesi, Vivaldi.
Costumes: James Ivory.
Set: Andrea Branzi.
Lighting: Aaron Copp.
Time is the echo of an axe within wood
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Company: Armitage Gone! Dance. Premiere: March 2, 2004. New York, New York. Music: Bela Bartok, Gavin Bryars, Annie Gosfield and Roger Klier, Charles Ives. Costumes: Peter Speliopoulos. Set: David Salle. Lighting: Clifton Taylor. |
2003
Living Toys
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Company: Rambert Dance Company. Premiere: May 29, 2003. Glasgow, Scotland. Music: Thomas Adès. Costumes: Peter Speliopoulos. Lighting: Clifton Taylor. |
Orfeo ed Euridice
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Company: San Carlo Opera. Music: Christoph Willibald Gluck. Direction and Choreography: Karole Armitage. Set: Brice Marden. Costumes: Peter Speliopoulos. Dramaturge: Stefano Paba. Lighting: Roberto Venturi. Premiere: Oct. 29, 2003. San Carlo Opera house. Naples, Italy |
2002
Broken Glass
Company: Florence Dance Company.
Premiere: Dec. 5, 2002. Teatro Goldoni. Florence, Itay.
Music: Salvatore Sciarrino, Thomas Adès, Philip Glass.
Costumes: Peter Speliopoulos.
Bluebeard's Castle
Opera in 1 Act: Co-production Opéra de Nancy and Ballet de Lorraine.
Premiere: Oct. 18, 2002. Théatre de l'Opéra. Nancy, France.
Music: Bela Bartok.
Costumes: Peter Speliopoulos.
Set: Andrea Branzi.
Lighting: Roberto Venturi.
Dramaturge: Stefano Paba.
Bluebeard: Czaba Arizier.
Judith: Natasha Petrinsky.
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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
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Company: Introdans.
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Sonata da Caccia
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Company: Ballet de Lorraine; Revised for Florence Dance Company Dec. 2002. Premiere: June 2002. Mexico. Music: Thomas Adès. Costumes: Peter Speliopoulos. |
Melodien
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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
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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
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Company: Universtiy of Kansas Dance Department. Premiere: November 2001 The Leid Center. |
Drastic Remix
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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
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Company: Armitage Gone! Dance. |
2000
Schrodingers Cat
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Company: Ballet de Lorraine. Nancy, France. |
Concerto Conciso
Company: Ballet National de Cuba.
Premiere: Oct. 21, 2000. Teatro Garcia Lorca. Havana.
Music: Thomas Adès.
Tango Mortale
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Premiere: June 24, 2000. Teatro Antico. Taormina, Sicily. Tours: Italy, Greece, New York. Music: Thomas Adès. Costumes: Arjun Bhasin. |
Yo, Giacomo Casanova
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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
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Company: Greek National Opera Ballet.
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The Golden Bowl
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Merchant Ivory Productions. Feature film directed by James Ivory. |
1999
The Last Lap
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Company: White Oak Project. |
Life Story
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Company: Wendy Whelen and Albert Evans of New York City Ballet for “Stars of New York.” Premiere: August 7, 1999 Royal Frestival Hall, London, England. Music: Thomas Adès. Libretto: Tennesse Williams from In The Winter of Cities. Costumes: David Salle. Lighting: Perry Silvey. |
Up At the Villa
Feature film directed by Phillip Haas.
1998
Pinocchio
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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
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Company: MaggioDanza di Firenze. |
Wild Ballerina
1 Hour Feature documentary on Karole Armitage.
Directed by Mark Kidel.
Produced by Serge Lalou Les Films d'Ici, Reiner Moritz Productions.
Mirror's Edge
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Company: Ballet de Monte Carlo. |
1997
Weather of Reality
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Company: MaggioDanza di Firenze. Premiere: February 11, 1997 Teatro Comunale Florence, Italy. Music: DJ Ski. Costumes: Pilar Limosner. Lighting: Mark McCullough. |
Tersicore
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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
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Company: MaggioDanza di Firenze. Florence, Italy. |
1996
The Predators' Ball
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Company: MaggioDanza di Firenze and Guest Actors, Rappers Voguers. Premiere: June 11, 1996. Teatro della Pergola, Florence, Italy. Text: Joe Sutton and John Gould Rubin. Music: Jason Robert Brown, David Shea, DJ Ski. Costumes: Hugo Boss, Pilar Limosner, Debra Moises Co. Design: David Salle, Jeff Koons. Motion Animation Video: Erica Beckman. Lighting: Pat Dignan. |
The Predators' Ball/ Hucksters of the Soul
Company: MaggioDanza di Firenze and Guest Actors, Rappers Voguers.
Premiere: Oct. 11, 1996. Brooklyn Academy of Music: New York, N.Y.
Text: John Gould Rubin.
Music: Phillip Johnston, David Shea, DJ Ski.
Costumes: Hugo Boss, Pilar Limosner, Debra Moises Co.
Design: David Salle
Motion Animation Video: Erica Beckman
Lighting: Pat Dignan.
1995
Scheherazade
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Company: Maggio Danza di Firenze. Premiere: Oct. 1995 Teatro Comunale. Florence, Italy. Music: David Shea and Rimsky-Korsakov. Set: Philip Taaffe. Costumes: Pilar Limosner. Lighting: Pat Dignan. |
1994
Hovering at the Edge of Chaos
Company: Oregon Ballet Theater.
Premiere: May 13, 1994. Portland, Oregon.
Music: Noh Traditional, Australian House, Rai by Khaled, Brazilian Rap, 808 State, John Zorn, Japanese pop
Tattoo and Tutu
Company: Ballet of Bayerische Statsoper Munich., Germany.
Premiere: May 17, 1994. Statsoper. Munich, Germany.
Music: Shocklee Brothers.
Costumes: Pilar Limosner.
Lighting: Pat Dignan.
The Dog Is Us
Company: Ballet of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Germany and 6 standard poodles.
Premiere June 11, 1994. Deutsche Oper. Berlin, Germany.
Music: Carl Stalling, David Shea, Shocklee Brothers.
Set: David Salle.
Costumes: Pilar Limosner.
Lighting : Pat Dignan.
The Return of Rasputin
Choreography for a musical in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Search and Destroy
Feature film directed by David Salle.
1993
Hucksters of the Soul
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Company: Armitage Gone! Dance. Premiere June, 1993. Maison de la Culture, Bobigny. Paris, France. Tours: France, Germany, Italy. Music: David Shea. Costumes: Pilar Limosner. Set: Karole Armitage. Lighting: Pat Dignan. |
I Had A Dream
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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
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Company: Ballet de Monte Carlo. Premiere: April, 1992. Monte Carlo, Monaco. Tours: Italy, Austria, USA. Music: David Shea. Costumes: Alfredo Viloria. |
In the Closet
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Happy Birthday Rossini
Company: MaggioDanza di Firenze. Florence, Italy.
Premiere: May, 1992. Teatro della Pergola, Florence, Italy.
Tours: Italy.
Music: Rossini and David Shea.
Set: Mina Albergo.
Costumes: Karole Armitage and Alfredo Viloria.
Lighting: Pat Dignan.
Hall of Mirrors
Half-hour feature film written, choreographed and directed by KA.
1991
Vogue
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Video clip for Madonna. Directed by David Fincher. |
Blonde Ambition
Group: Madonna.
Several numbers for World Tour.
World Tour
Group: The Dyvinals.
Chain of Desire
Feature film starring Linda Fiorintino.
Directed by Temi Lopez.
The Marmot Quickstep
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Company: Armitage Gone! Dance (aka Armitage Ballet). Premiere: July,1991 Center For the Arts. Crested Butte, Colorado. Tours: USA. Music: David Shea. Costumes: Karole Armitage. Lighting: Pat Dignan. |
Renegade Dance Wave
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance (aka Armitage Ballet).
Premiere: July, 1991. Center for the Arts. Crested Butte, Colorado.
Tours: USA and Japan.
Music: Renegade Sound Wave, 808 State.
Costumes: Karole Armitage.
Lighting: Pat Dignan.
Overboard
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Company: Charleois Danse. Premiere: December, 1991. Charleois, Belgium. Music: David Shea. Lighting: Pat Dignan. |
1990
Forty Guns
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance (aka Armitage Ballet).
Premiere: August 8, 1990. Center for the Arts. Crested Butte, Colorado.
Tours: USA.
Music: traditional American.
Costumes: Karole Armitage.
Lighting: Pat Dignan.
Dancing Zappa
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Company: Lyon Opera Ballet. |
Jack and Betty
Company: Les Nomades.
Premiere: Lausanne, Switzerland.
Tours: France, Italy, Spain, etc.
Music: John Zorn.
Costumes: Karole Armitage.
Love School
Video clip for the Dyvinals.
World Tour
Milli Vanilli.
Various Video Clips
Kuffs
Feature film starring Christian Slater.
Directed by Bruce Evans.
1989
Contempt
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Company: Armitage Gone! Dance (aka Armitage Ballet) Premiere: April 11, 1989. La Quartz. Brest, France. Tours: USA, France, Spain, Italy. Music: Thelonius Monk, Chet Baker, Charles Mingus, Shostakovich, Bach, John Zorn, Kurt Weil arranged by Gil Evans, text by Bret Easton Ellis recited by Thersea Russell. Film: David Salle. Sets: Jeff Koons and David Salle. (Pig constructed by Anne Slavit) Costumes: David Salle. Lighting: Ken Tabachnick. |
Without You, I'm Nothing
Feature film starring Sandra Bernhard.
Directed by John Boskovich.
1988
Duck Dances
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Company: Armitage Gone! Dance (aka Armitage Ballet) Premiere: April 30, 1988. Angers, France. Performed: USA, France, Germany, Japan. Music: Jeffrey Lohn. Costumes: David Salle. Lighting: Debra Dumas. |
Kammerdisco
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance (aka Armitage Ballet)
Premiere: April 10, 1988. Sao Paolo, Brazil.
Performed: France, Germany, Brazil, Portugal.
Music: Jeffrey Lohn.
Costumes: David Salle.
Lighting: Debra Dumas.
GoGo Ballerina
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Company: Armitage Gone! Dance (aka Armitage Ballet). Premiere: November 13, 1988. The World. New York, New York. Performed: France, Italy, Spain, Portugal. Music: Jimi Hendrix. Sets: Jeff Koons. Costumes: David Salle. |
1987
The Tarnished Angels
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Commissioned by Rudolf Nureyev. Company: Ballet de l'Opera de Paris; Armitage Ballet. Premiere with Ballet de l'Opéra de Paris: May 29, 1987. Théâtre de l'Opéra de Paris, France. Premiere with Armitage Ballet: September 10, 1987. Doolittle Theater Los Angeles, California. Tours: USA, France, Germany, Japan, Spain, Brazil, Italy, Belgium. Music: Charles Mingus. Sets: David Salle. Costumes: Christian Lacroix. Lighting: Ken Tabachnick. |
Les Stances a Sophie
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Company: Armitage Gone! Dance (aka Armitage Ballet). Premiere: Joyce Theater. New York, New York. Music: Art Ensemble of Chicago. Set: Carroll Dunham. Costumes: Pilar Limosner. |
1986
The Elizabethan Phrasing of the Late Albert Ayler
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Company: Armitage Gone! Dance (aka Armitage Ballet).
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1985
The Watteau Duets
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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
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Commissioned by Mikhail Baryshnikov. |
The South Bank Show
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1984
Tasmanian Devil
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Company: Tasmanian Dance Company. Premiere: Tasmania. Tours: Australia. |
GV-10
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Company: Ballet Théâtre de l'Opéra de Paris. Premiere: Théâtre de l'Opéra Comique. Paris, France. Tours: Festival d'Avignon, Greece. Music: Stockhausen. Costumes and Lighting: Charles Atlas. |
Ex-Romance (a dance made for television)
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance.
Director: Charles Atlas.
Music: Jeffrey Lohn.
Costumes: Charles Atlas.
1983
The Last Gone Dance
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance. (Michael Clark and Karole Armitage)
Premiere: Theatre de la Ville. Paris, France.
Tours: France, USA.
Music: David Linton.
Costumes and Lighting: Charles Atlas.
Paradise (Version #2)
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance.
Premiere: Bordeaux, France.
Tours: France, USA.
Music: Jeffrey Lohn.
Costumes and Lighting: Charles Atlas.
1982
A Real Gone Dance
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Company: Armitage Gone! Dance. (Donald Byrd and Karole Armitage)
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The Nutcracker (co-choreographed with Rosella Hightower)
Company: Ballet de l'Opéra de Paris.
Premiere: Théâtre de l'Opéra de Paris. Paris, France.
Parafango (a dance made for television)
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance.
Director: Charles Atlas.
Music: David Linton.
Costumes: Charles Atlas.
Slaughter on MacDougal Street
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Company: Group de Recherche de l'Opera de Paris. |
Paradise (Version #1)
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance.
Premiere: Ukrainian Ballroom. New York, New York.
1981
Drastic-Classicism
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Company: Armitage Gone! Dance. Premiere: Dance Theater Workshop, New York, New York. Tours: France, England, Austria, Holland, USA, Spain, Italy, Switzerland. Music: Rhys Chatham. Costumes and Lighting: Charles Atlas. |
It Happened At Club Bombay Cinema
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Company: Extemporary Dance Company London, England. Premiere: London, England. Tours: England. Music: various, including Indian movie music. |
1980
Vertige
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Company: Armitage Gone! Dance. |
1979
Do We Could
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Company: Armitage Gone! Dance. Premiere: The Kitchen. New York, New York. Performed: Chateauvallon, France. Music: none Costumes: Charles Atlas. |
1978
Ne
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Company: Armitage Gone! Dance. Premiere: St. Francis Xavier High School gym. New York, New York. Music: The THE. Costumes and Set: Christian Marclay. |
