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Choreographer

Lucinda Childs is a renowned American choreographer, born on June 26, 1940. Her dance works are known for their simplicity, abstraction, and experimental nature, profoundly influencing the development of modern dance.

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Needs Structure Connected Surface

Author:Lucinda Childs

“I disagree with the idea that modern dancers are cold or unemotional.”

Ideas Modern Cold Dancer Disagree Unemotional

Author:Lucinda Childs

“I think dancing is an emotional experience.”

Thinking Emotional Dancing

Author:Lucinda Childs

“I use geometric and mathematical ideas to organize material, but those are tools. The purpose of the work is not to expose that at all, but to arrive at some kind of expressiveness.”

Kind Ideas Use Purpose Materials Tools Mathematical Organize Geometric

Author:Lucinda Childs

“The diagonal gives a three-dimensional feeling to dancers that cannot be achieved when they are only front and back. On the diagonal, more movement is automatically visible.”

Giving Feelings Three Fronts Movement Visible Dancer Diagonal

Author:Lucinda Childs

“If the simple positions of ballet are demonstrated straight on, they seem quite dull and lifeless, but when put on a diagonal, they begin to take on all kinds of possibilities.”

Ifs Kind Seems Simple Possibility Position All Kinds Dull Ballet Lifeless Diagonal

Author:Lucinda Childs

“I do not like a haphazard connection between the dances and the music.”

Connections Haphazard

Author:Lucinda Childs

“The relationship between the audience and the dancers goes through many different stages. Someone seeing my work for the first time may or may not pick up on that.”

Firsts May Different Audience Seeing Stage Picks First Time Dancer

Author:Lucinda Childs

“I do not like to be thought of as avant-garde or some kind of didactic artist.”

Kind Artist Avant Garde Didactic

Author:Lucinda Childs

“I am just a choreographer, and I am trying to make productions, not dance concerts.”

Trying Productions Concerts Choreographers

Author:Lucinda Childs

“"Light Over Water" is the longest piece I have ever composed. It is a landmark in my personal struggle to create large forms. I feel that it is by and large a formally successful work, though I was constrained to write a piece at least fifty minutes long, and there are some dead spots in the music where I think I was simply marking time. However, I think when the dance is in motion, the formal problem is nonexistent.”

Thinking Writing Long Problem Water Struggle Successful

Author:Lucinda Childs

“I like large sounds and very complex sonorities, and I also tend to opt for creating a feeling of vast space. I could achieve this effect either by using a symphony orchestra, which for a dance piece is pretty much impossible these days, or by using a synthesizer on multi-channel tape and a superb sound system, to get that same sensation of expansiveness and depth.”

Feelings Impossible Achieve Superb

Author:Lucinda Childs

About the Author

Born: June 26, 1940
Known for: Choreographer
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