continuously during the 18-month work period, a performance being a snapshot of a particular moment in the processo Toward the end of 1977, Dunn formed a smaller group, Douglas Dunn and Dancers, and began making and touring repertory. Mr. Dunn is presently working on Landing, a new piece in collaboration with the Paris based jazz musician Steve Lacy, whom he worded with in 1981 to create the dance Cycles for the Paris Opera's GRCOP. During the 1991/92 season, Dunn will also be touring with Mr. Lacy in a piece entitled Jazz Wedding, a dance piece for two dancers set to the music of the Steve Lacy Nine ensemble. Another dance Mr. Dunn is in the process of creating is Don't Cry Now, which will be ready for presentation in 1991. Mr. Dunn's latest work, The Myth of Modem Dance, a video created in collaboration with filmmaker Charles Atlas and based on a solo by Dunn, was broadcast on PBS's Alive From Off Center in August 1990. Sky Eye, commissioned by the Festival d'Automne in Paris and the Danspace Project in New York City, premiered in New York City in March 1989 and was presented in Paris in October 1989. It has since been performed in Montana, Virginia, Vermont, Georgia, Lisbon and Berlin. Dunn's interest in solo performance surfaced in Fall1988 when The Whitney Museum of American Art at Equitable Center presented Haole. The piece has since been performed extensively throughout the United States. Mr. Dunn has received choreographic grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the Creative Arts Public Service Programo In 1980, he was awarded a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. His work has been written about in Sally Banes' Terpsichore in Sneakers, Houghton Miff1in, 1979, and in Connie Kreemer'sFurther Steps, Harper & Row, 1987. Among Mr. Dunn's choreographic commissions for his own and other companies are:
Wildwood for the New Dance Ensemble in Minneapolis, 1989; Gondolages for himself and Jean Guizerix and Wilfred Piollet of the Paris Opera Ballet for the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris in 1989; Peepstone for Salt Lake City's Repertory Dance Theater in 1987; 1st Rotation, music by Steve Kramer, for New Dance Ensemble, Minneapolis, cosponsored by the Walker Art Center, 1984; Second Mesa, a 3hour dance for a mobile audience, ma de in collaboration with sculptor Jeffrey Schiff and composers John Driscoll and Richard Lerman, for the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, 1983; Secret of the Waterfall, videodance directed by Charles Atlas, with poetry written and peformed by Anne Waldman and Reed Bye, for WGBH-TV, Boston,
1982. "Here we are - now what? From this question spring my urges to dance and to make dances. The current answer is a new dance. I want the dances to shock and uplift, to comment on current dance and sociallife, and to hint at the world I escape to. The dancers present themselves as people dancing. To this concrete presence-in-the-moment I juxtapose thematically suggestive set, costume, music and movement, pointing up present day complexity and confusion in interactions of thought and feeling. Willy-ni11y, intended or not, hem we are, feet on the ground, at this particular moment in historical and evolutionary fluxo "
Douglas Dunn Douglas Dunn's Gondolages places modem dancer Douglas Dunn beside Paris Opera Ballet étoiles Jean Guizerix and Wilfride Piollet in an exciting meeting of classical and contemporary dance. The contrast is heightened by Uli Gassmann 's stark steel set. Gondolages was commissioned by and premiered at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris. Espetáculos/Performances Ficha Técnica/Credits Gondo/ages (1988)
Coreografia/Choreography: Douglas Dunn Cenário e figurinos/ Set and costumes: UIi Gassmann Desenho de luz/Lighting design: Carol Mullins Trilha sonora/musical col/age: Douglas Dunn Bailarinos/ dancers: Douglas Dunn, Jean Guizerix, Wilfride PioUet Chaconne (1982) Coreografia/Choreography: Jose Limon Música de/Music by: J. S. Bach Uuminação/Lightin~ Carol Mullins Bailarino/Dancer. Jean Guizerix Temps de Baroque ·Sarabande", ·Chaconne" e ·Passe pied" Coreografia/Choreography: Francine Lancelot Música/ Music: Jean·Phillippe Rameau Bailarino/Dancer. Wilfride PioUet Rubb/e Variations (Premiére) Coreografia/Choreography: Douglas Dunn Música/Music: Soviet Army Chorus & Band Figurino/Costume: Mimi Gross Bailarino/Dancer. Douglas Dunn
GRAVURES/ASTRAKAN RECHERCHE CHORE-GRAPHIQUE Daniel Larrieux nasceu em Marselha, França, em 1957. Fundou o Astrakan Recherche Chore-graphique em 1982. Recebeu o título de Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres e ganhou o Prêmio dos Jovens Talentos da SACD, em 1988. Daniel Larrieux was bom in Marseille, France, in 1957. Founded the Astrakan Recherche Chore-graphique in 1982. Received the title of Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres and was awarded with the Prize for Young Talents from SACD, in 1988.
Coreografia e Prêmios/ Choreographies and Prizes
1982,83 Trais Piéces, Cuisine; Chiquenaudes, Concours de Bagnolet (Deuxiéme Prix); VolteFace, Festival de Montpellier, Arles, Chateauvallon; Une Sucre ou Deux, Studio des Quatre Temps, Paris 1984 La Peau et les Os, Festival de Seine Maritime/Théâtre de la Bastille, Paris; Ombres Électriques, pour la Compaigne Extemporary, Londres 1985 Romance en Stuc, Festival d'Avignon/Cloitre des Célestins; La Peau et les Os (reprise), pour le Jeune Ballet de France