1. Dianne McIntyre was born on July 18,1946 and is an American dancer, choreographer, and teacher.
20 Facts About Dianne McIntyre
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Dianne McIntyre has won numerous honors for her work including an Emmy nomination, three Bessie Awards, and a Helen Hayes Award.
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Dianne McIntyre is a member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, and the Dramatists Guild of America.
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At the age of four, Dianne McIntyre began studying ballet under the tutelage of Elaine Gibbs after seeing Janet Collins in the Metropolitan Opera Company's Cleveland production of Aida.
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In 1964, Dianne McIntyre graduated from John Adams High School before attending Ohio State University.
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In 1966, Dianne McIntyre attended the American Dance Festival where she would later return as a member of the faculty in the early 1990s and in 2008.
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In New York, Dianne McIntyre studied under Viola Farber and Gus Solomons Jr.
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Dianne McIntyre began to attend the rehearsals of jazz musicians, such as the Master Brotherhood, where she taught herself how to move to jazz.
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Dianne McIntyre cites "a feeling of that time in the Black Arts Movement" as the source of her passion for combining dance and live jazz.
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Dianne McIntyre held her first solo concert at the Clark Center for the Performing Arts.
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Under the mentorship of Louise Roberts, the director of the Clark Center, Dianne McIntyre founded the Harlem studio and company, Sounds in Motion, in 1972.
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Dianne McIntyre then held concerts at the Cubiculo Theatre and Washington Square Church while supporting her endeavors out of her own pocket.
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The studio was a space where what Dianne McIntyre termed "the culture crowd," a label that included not only dancers and musicians, but scholars, activists, and artists from all fields, could gather and engage in furthering movement of Black consciousness.
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Sixteen years after its founding, Dianne McIntyre closed Sounds in Motion in 1988 to pursue independent work.
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Dianne McIntyre's choreography has been featured on television in HBO's Miss Evers' Boys, for which she was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Choreography, and in the 1998 film Beloved, based on the novel of the same name by Toni Morrison.
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In 2011, Dianne McIntyre acted as choreographer for the film Fun Size.
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Dianne McIntyre has been a guest artist and teacher at numerous institutions including the American Dance Festival, Jacob's Pillow Dance, and the Bates Summer Dance Festival.
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Dianne McIntyre has been on the faculty of Sarah Lawrence College.
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In 2014, Dianne McIntyre returned to Barnard to hold a movement workshop for a course on Ntozake Shange's work and influence.
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In 2014, Dianne McIntyre choreographed a new choreopoem by Shange which premiered at the Brooklyn and Kelly Strayhorn Theater in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.