Martha Clarke, Date of Birth

    

Martha Clarke

American theater director and choreographer

Date of Birth: 03-Jun-1944

Profession: choreographer, theater director

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Gemini


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About Martha Clarke

  • 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.
  • 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. Clarke's latest production, Angel Reapers, a collaboration with Pulitzer prize-winner Alfred Uhry, ran at the Signature Theatre Company (New York City) from February 2 - March 20, 2016.
  • This production won two Lucille Lortel Awards for "Outstanding Alternative Theatrical Experience" and for "Outstanding Choreography".
  • Angel Reapers also toured New England with performances at The Joyce Theater in 2011.
  • Her production of Kurt Weill's The Threepenny Opera ran at the Atlantic Theater Company in NYC from March 12 to May 11, 2014.
  • The production featured F.
  • Murray Abraham and Laura Osnes. Chéri, inspired by the classic 1920 novella by controversial French author Colette, ran from November 19, 2013 to Dec.
  • 29, 2013 at the Signature Theatre Company (New York City).
  • It featured dancers Herman Cornejo & Alessandra Ferri, actress Amy Irving and pianist Sarah Rothenberg.
  • A world tour occurred in 2014 - 2015. She created the full-evening work L’altra metá del cielo spring 2012 at La Scala Opera in Milan, Italy. In 1990, she received a MacArthur Award, popularly known as the "genius grant" and, in June 2010, the 2010 Samuel H.
  • Scripps/American Dance Festival Award for Lifetime Achievement.
  • She is the recipient of the 2013 Dance Magazine Award.
  • In 2014, she received her second Joe A.
  • Callaway choreography award for Chéri.
  • In 2009, she received her first Callaway choreography award for Garden of Earthly Delights.
  • She is the only recipient in the SDC Joe A.
  • Callaway award's history to receive two awards for choreography.

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