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Martha Clarke

MARTHA CLARKE

  (1944 - )
Nationality:    USA
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Martha Clarke (born June 3, 1944) is an American theater director and choreographer noted for her multidisciplinary approach to theatre, dance, and opera productions. She is the creator of plotless, dreamlike works that are perhaps described by the term "moving paintings.[1] Her work frequently emphasizes striking visual tableaux, often directly inspired by visual art, especially painting. Though dance is the primary basis of Clarke's training, she has maintained a career which spans and melds dance, theater, the visual arts, and opera. Probably her best-known original work is The Garden of Earthly Delights (1984), an exploration in theatre, dance, music and flying of the famous painting of the same name by Hieronymus Bosch. In June 2007, a new version of the show opened the 30th anniversary of the American Dance Festival. On November 19, 2008, the re-imagined Garden of Earthly Delights opened Off-Broadway at the Minetta Lane Theater in New York City; two extensions and five months later  it ran until April 5, 2009. A world tour will follow. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Clarke

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below is a list of Martha Clarke's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Alice's Adventures Under Ground         Angel Reapers         Cheri         Garden Of Earthly Delights         Hunger Artist, The

Alice's Adventures Under Ground

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written with Christopher Hampton

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Faber and Faber, London, 1995   -

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Angel Reapers

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angel Reapers, a collaboration between Pulitzer, Tony, and academy award winning writer alfred Uhry and Macarthur "Genius" award recipient director/choreographer Martha Clarke, is a multidisciplinary work suggested by the life of ann Lee (1736-1784), founder of the Shaker movement. Mother ann, as she became known, was a visionary, mystic and powerful spiritual leader. Preaching celibacy, she demonstrated that through shaking and trembling movements, sin could be purged from the body. these gesticulating, dancing motions gave the Shaker sect its name. angel Reapers is not biographical in the usual sense; the staging is more loosely constructed, slipping in and out of reality and embracing ann's visions and those of her followers. the plot is woven throughout with movement, song and dance to bring to life this extraordinary 18th century woman and the singular world she created. It examines the contradiction between the prim prudery of Shaker tenets and the wild, sexual nature they suppressed.
- nytheatre.com

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written by Alfred Uhry; choreographer: Martha Clarke

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The Joyce Theater, 175 Eighth AVenue At 19th Street, NY    29 Nov 2011

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dance theatre

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Cheri

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Inspired by the classic 1920 novella by controversial French author Colette, Chéri is Martha Clarkes newest interdisciplinary work, an exciting fusion of theatre, live music, and dance featuring American Ballet Theatre principal dancer Herman Cornejo, prima ballerina assoluta Alessandra Ferri, Academy & Golden Globe Award nominee and Obie Award winner Amy Irving, pianist Sarah Rothenberg, and text by Tina Howe. This tragic story of forbidden love between a young man and an older woman in Belle Époque Paris is a timeless, powerful exploration of sensuality, love, and our preoccupations with youth and age.

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Choreography and direction Martha Clarke, text Tina Howe

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dance theatre

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Garden Of Earthly Delights

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Martha Clarke takes you on a journey from creation through eden, earthly existence, damnation and redemption

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Hunger Artist, The

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the life and works of Franz Kafka.

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written by Richard Greenberg And Martha Clarke And company, work by Kafka

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New York    1987

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adaptation

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