June 13/15: Charlotte Boye-Christensen
Photo: David Newkirk
Class Description:
I combine principles from Release and Fall and Recovery with Pilates and Yoga in my warm-up. My classes are technically and physically challenging and reflect the idiosyncratic and dynamic movement style that I have spent the last twenty years developing. I am interested in exploring elements of suspension, falling and being off balance and dwelling in those moments of discovery.
Below are some quotes:
"Charlotte has a wonderful way of making movement look startling unexpected and original yet totally organic.”
“…the gestural vocabulary she has developed in combination with her explosive movement style tells a unique story within each piece."
"Charlotte Boye-Christensen has a choreographic Knack that transcends medium...Rhythmic finesse, whimsy and a gift for conciseness make Christensen's images delightfully unique...wherever they are seen." (Dance Magazine)
Charlotte Boye-Christensen is originally from Copenhagen but trained as a dancer and choreographer at London Contemporary Dance School, the Laban Center and Tisch School of the Arts in NYC (She received her MFA from the Latter). She has choreographed on Ballet West, Milwaukee Ballet, Singapore Dance Theater, Danish Dance Theater, Ballet de Camaguey in Cuba and more. She was the Artistic Director of Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company in The States for 11 years, created 26 pieces on the company and stepped away from that position in 2013 to create the contemporary Interdisciplinary Dance Company: NOW-ID.
With NOW-ID she has created 6 evening long performances, toured Nationally and Internationally and created the first interdisciplinary site-specific dance and design workshop of its kind in the States; “Space As Collaborator”.
Additionally Charlotte has choreographed and taught at The European Dance Development Center in the Netherlands, The National School for Contemporary Dance in Denmark, the Universities of Princeton, Rutgers, Texas, Long Beach, Georgia, NYU and more in the States, Lasalle-Sia, College of the Arts in Singapore, at Seoul International Dance Festival, at Bellas Artes in Mexico City, at the Bauhaus in Germany and more. She is the recipient of the Choo San Goh Award for choreographic excellence, a Fulbright Scholarship and more.
http://www.now-id.com/founders