List of Works
Armitage Choreography 1978 - Present
2019
You Took A Part of Me
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance
Theater: Japan Society
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
2018
Art of the In-Between
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance
Theater: National Sawdust
Premiere: October 20, 2018
Dia des los Muertos
Music: DNA, Theoretical Girls, Wyclef Jean, Fats Waller
Original Commissioned Music: Terry Dame
Costume Design: Jon Can Coskunses, Simone Duff, Peter Speliopoulos
Lighting Design: Clifton Taylor
Donkey Jaw Bone:
Music: traditional Nahuatl
Musicians: Peter Basil Bagdanos, Juan Lucero
Costume Design: Pilar Limosner
Lighting Design: Clifton Taylor
Donkey Jaw Bone
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance
Theater: New York Live Arts
Premiere: June 12, 2018
Music: traditional Nahuatl
Musicians: Peter Basil Bagdanos, Juan Lucero
Costume Design: Pilar Limosner
Lighting Design: Clifton Taylor
2017
Walls
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance with Alba and Francesco Clemente
Theater: Belvedere di Villa Rufolo
Premiere: July 2, 2017
Music: David Lang
Costumes: Alba Clemente
Live Painting: Francesco Clemente
Recitation: Alba Clemente
Halloween Unleashed: Dancing Bones, Tasting Darkness and the Skeleton WIthin
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance
Premiere: October 27, 2017
Theater: LaMama First Floor Theater
Direction and Choreography: Karole Armitage
Music: DNA, Theoretical Girls, Wyclef Jean, David Lang, Marilyn Manson, Gioacchino Rossini, Fats Waller
Original Commissioned Music: Terry Dame
Costumes:
Mr. Bones, Skeletons, Devils, Horned Lighting, Red Shoes,
Krapo, Butch Bride, Sultry Sequin Drag Design: Peter Speliopoulos
Cat, Rabbit, Spiderman, Mask and Prop Design: Simone Duff
Owl, Bat, Cat, Witch, Deconstruct Skeleton Design: Jon Can Coskunses
Rooster Design: Alba Clemente
Tutu Design: Christian Lacroix
Installation Design: Peter Speliopoulos
Lighting Design: Clifton Taylor
2016
American Dream
Armitage curates evening of important philosophies and techniques of 20th and 21st Century American Dance
Premiere: August 6, 2016
Ravello Festival, Italy
Theater: Belvedere di Villa Rufolo
Program:
Traditional Native American Prairie Chicken Dance
Music: Traditional Plains Indian - Blackfoot Confederacy
Dancer: Calvin Smith
Richard Move Martha@Ravello
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
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
Costumes: Peter Speliopoulos
Dancers: Ahmaud Culver, Megumi Eda
Richard Move Martha@Ravello
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
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
Dancers: Accademia Nazionale di Roma
Armitage Gone! Dance
Summertime - Creation for American Dream Festival
Choreography: Karole Armitage
Music: George Gershwin lyrics by Dubose Heyward
Arranged and performed by Billy Stewart
Dancers: Ahmaud Culver, Izabela Szylinska
Agon
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance
Premiere: May 15, 2016
Theater: Royal Festival Hall, London
Revival: July 9, 2016 Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, France
Theater: Grand Théâtre de Provence
Music: Igor Stravinsky
London Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen
Costumes: Peter Speliopoulos
Bitches Brew
Company: Boston Ballet
Theater: Boston Opera House
Premiere: May 6, 2016
Music: Miles Davis
Costumes: Peter Speliopoulos
Lighting Design: Clifton Taylor
Dance Everywhen
Company: Armitage Gone! Dance with Harvard Dance Students
Premiere: February 24, 2016
Theater: Harvard Art Museums Lobby
Music: Stuart Dempster
GoGo Ballerina (Revival)
Company: Introdans
Premiere: February 12, 2016. Municipal Theater of Arnhem (Holland)
Performed throughout Holland.
Music: Jimi Hendrix.
Sets: Jeff Koons.
Costumes: David Salle and Jeff Koons.
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
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
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
Summer of Love
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)
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
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)
Premiere: August 8, 2008 Damrosch Park, New York City Company: Armitage Gone! Dance Music: Burkina Electric and Lukas Ligeti Costumes: Peter Speliopoulos |
Ariadne Unhinged
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
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
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
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
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.
SZ110
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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. |
