Artist:
Armitage Gone! Dance
Genre: Broadway
Background: Armitage Gone!
Dance is a hugely acclaimed dance joy ride;
Karole Armitage is the main woman behind
this terrific dance group. Its all started
when, Ms. Armitage, left George Balanchine's
famous Geneva Ballet in 1976 and ultimately
joined the other popular group known as
Merce Cunningham Dance Company. Then comes
the other dramatic moment in her life, in
1980, Ms. Armitage daringly founded Armitage
Gone! Dance; better described as her dream
and her own special dance company. From
that day onwards this amazing lady has been
consistently pursuing her own breathtaking
dance forms. Her superb dance forms comprises
a defined combination of Yoga, ballet, tough
improve and vogueing and traditional Bharatnatyam
or the famous Indian dance style. This tremendous
lady also takes some notable inspiration
from the famous South Central Los Angeles
street creative dance forms known as twisting,
Krum ping and calligraphy. Ms. Armitage
has also won the tremendous acclaim for
her unique concoction of punk-rock culture
that was very popular in the 80's with balanced
modern dance and ballet styles.
This famous dance group is also very
well adept at using the awesome shapes
of some Chinese characters as well as
the ancient Arabic and Khmer alphabets
to incredibly create meandering and tough
sinuous movements which equally mixed
with the thorough and unbridled force
of so called Krumping create magic. Her
tremendous style of choreography and breath
taking movements has been recognized world
wide. Ms. Armitage is the proud recipient
of the prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship
in choreography. She was duly awarded
by The French government as the Chevalier
dans L'ordre des Arts et Lettres for her
rare and tremendous contribution in choreography.
As per her famous oeuvre, she has also
choreographed for the reputed Paris Opera
Ballet and also for the popular American
Ballet. She has also served as the reputed
director of MaggioDanza di Firenze the
well acclaimed Ballet Company in Florence,
Italy from 1995-1998.
Her memorable and tremendous projects
include a though creative remake of hard
"Drastic-Classicism." Her famous
projects in the past were her well created
punk classic "Sonata de Caccia"
from the early shows in the late 1970's.
During ''Rave" in the Cannes Dance
Festival, she drew the widest acclaim.
Her breathtaking choreography is also
presented in the highly acclaimed Merchant
& Ivory production "The Golden
Bowl." She has also contributed in
the making of the famous two documentaries
made on her thrilling choreography amazingly
made for television. These famous shows
were "The South Bank Show”
(1985) and the very famous "Wild
Ballerina" (1998.) This is just a
trailer of her rare achievements; her
memorable work was also featured in hugely
famous rock videos of Madonna (Vogue).
She has also contributed in the making
of the "In the Closet" a video
for great Michael Jackson. Her other movies
includes Search and Destroy, Chain of
Desire, and hugely popular Without You
I'm Nothing. The 2005-2006, her fans will
see the new world premiere of hugely anticipated
''In This Dream That Dogs Me,'' at the
famous, New York’s "The Duke
theater." Her shows are awesome and
provide something for everyone.
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