Lucinda Childs's compositions are known for their minimalistic movements yet complex transitions.
32 Facts About Lucinda Childs
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Lucinda Childs began dancing at the age of six at the King-Coit School.
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At age eleven, Lucinda Childs was introduced to Tanaquil LeClercq from the New York City Ballet.
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LeClercq had inspired Lucinda Childs to pursue dance, but Lucinda Childs found that she could not execute everything perfectly.
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Lucinda Childs worked with theater director Barney Brown from the Pasadena Play-House.
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Lucinda Childs was able to broaden her technical experience by studying with Judith Dunn, Bessie Schonberg and Merce Cunningham.
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Rainer was the one to encourage Lucinda Childs to be a part of the Judson Dance Theater in 1963 with dancers such as James Waring, Valda Setterfield, and Arlene Rothlein.
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Lucinda Childs would create an entire performance piece based on one simple combination that would be repeated numerous times but in a different way.
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Lucinda Childs mentioned, in Speaking of Dance: Twelve Contemporary Choreographers on Their Craft, that the works of Jackson Pollock, Barnett Newman, Mark Rothko, Jasper Johns, and Robert Rauschenberg influenced her works.
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In Street Dance, Lucinda Childs created her stage on a street in Manhattan where her audience was the occupants of a nearby loft.
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Lucinda Childs approached this piece from all different angles exploring dialect, architecture, and staging.
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Lucinda Childs embodied many different characters within this solo through her gestures.
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Lucinda Childs first took the composition Glass had made and analyzed how the music was constructed and designed her own structure of movement to interact with it.
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Lucinda Childs choreographed this piece to come together with the music at points, and to counter it at others.
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Lucinda Childs had the couples on stage during this piece as she feels the couples heighten the spatial relations between the dancers and the audience.
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Lucinda Childs describes the use of the projection as the dancers becoming the decor, the scenic element, instead of using a piece of abstract art which was the original suggestion before LeWitt came up with the idea to pair the dancers with a film.
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Lucinda Childs began choreography in the second part as it was more abstract.
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Each structure in the first part, with the text, took on a different meaning depending on the props used and Lucinda Childs was able to drift the structures in and out of relating directly with the text or not.
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Lucinda Childs choreographed steadily until 1968 when she decided to take a break and focus on her own style of dance.
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Lucinda Childs participated as the leading performer and choreographer and won an Obie Award for Best Actress for her performance.
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Lucinda Childs originated the role of Hubert Page in The Singular Life of Albert Nobbs Off-Broadway in 1982.
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Lucinda Childs appeared in a show titled I Was Sitting on My Patio This Guy Appeared I Thought I Was Hallucinating in 1977.
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Since 1992, Lucinda Childs has worked primarily in the field of opera, starting with Luc Bundy's production of Richard Strauss's Salome'.
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Lucinda Childs choreographed Bondy's production of Macbeth for the Scottish Opera in 1995.
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That same year, Lucinda Childs directed her first opera, a production of Mozart's Zaide for La Monnaie in Brussels, Belgium.
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In 2001, Lucinda Childs choreographed Los Angeles' Opera's Production of Wagner's Lohengrin, conducted by Kent Nagano.
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In 2002, Lucinda Childs directed Orefeo Ed Euridice for the Scottish Opera.
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In 2003, Lucinda Childs choreographed Ravel's Daphnis and Chloe for the Geneva Opera Ballet.
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Lucinda Childs choreographed John Adams' opera Doctor Atomic with the San Francisco Ballet in 2007.
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Lucinda Childs choreographed and directed Vivaldi's opera Farnace for the Opera du Rhin in 2012.
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Lucinda Childs was awarded by the French government, which designated her as among the highest rank of dancer performers.
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Besides her own productions, Lucinda Childs has choreographed for the Paris Opera Ballet, Lyon Opera Ballet, Pacific Northwest Ballet, and the Berlin Opera Ballet.