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Members of the Philadelphia Dance Community,
Please join us for a special Jeanne Ruddy Dance event:
Meet JRD 08/09 Guest Choreographer
Martha Clarke
At The Performance Garage Thursday, June 5, 2008 6:00 pm
Ms. Clarke will discuss her choreographic process, and video of her work will be shown.
MacArthur Award winner Martha Clarke has maintained a career that spans dance, theater and opera. Trained at Juilliard under Antony Tudor and Anna Sokolow, she was a founding member of Pilobolus Dance Theatre and has choreographed for the Nederlans Dans Theater, the Joffrey Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, and The Martha Graham Company, among others. A recipient of numerous grants and awards, her "Garden of Earthly Delights", was recently remounted under the auspices of the National Endowment for the Arts American Masterworks grant program. Ms. Clarke has also directed many works of theater including "A Midsummer Night's Dream" for the American Repertory Theater, a music/theater work, "Belle Epoque", based on the life of Toulouse Lautrec at Lincoln Center Theater, and the premiere of Christopher Hampton's "Alice's Adventures Underground" at the Royal National Theatre in London.
For More Information, call: 215-569-4060
Jeanne Ruddy Dance / The Performance Garage 1515 Brandywine Street, Philadelphia, PA 19130
Martha Clarke’s guest visit with Jeanne Ruddy Dance was made possible, in part, by a grant from Dance Advance, a program of the Philadelphia Center for Arts and Heritage, funded by the PEW Charitable Trusts and administered by the University of the Arts.
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