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Christine Dakin

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115:, her personal poetic of Martha Graham's dance; with an international collaboration of dancers and musicians. The film explores the work and creative life of a dancer and was official selection in 2013 of New York City Independent Film Festival and Golden Door International Film Festivals, NewFilmmakers New York 2014, and has been shown at the 92Y in New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Oaxaca, Mexico and for International Day of Dance UNESCO in Barcelona. 108:) and contemporary company Univerdanza, Universidad de Veracruz, Xalapa, Centro de las Artes Sn. Luis Potosí, Compañía de Danza Contemporánea de Yucatán, and Invernadero Danza Oaxaca. Guest performer with Compañía Ciudad Interior, ‘choreographic guide’ at Encuentro de Creación Coreográfica EnTiempoReal2017. Her choreography in collaboration with Mexican composers and scenic designers has premiered in Mexico City and the International Festival St. Luis Potosí. 71:” Performance Award (2003) and the Dance Magazine Award (1994), was a Fulbright Senior Scholar (1999) and recipient of two Rockefeller-US-Mexico Fund for Culture grants (1998, 2001) for choreography, research and teaching. She was awarded the 14th annual Labat Loano Grand Prix “Giuliana Penzi” 2015 Career Award. At Harvard University she was the Evelyn Green Fellow at the 99:
School in New York, guest teacher at Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, and is known internationally as a teacher and guest artist; since 1981 maintaining a special relationship with the Mexican dance community as teacher, choreographer with the Ballet Nacional de México, Universidad de Colima’s
122:, Dakin has investigated with artists and scientists of the "dancing leaf group": "Locomotion/Emotion; perception of complex movement and the dynamics of beauty" in a 2009 Radcliffe Seminar; and "The Dynamics of Beauty: Human Perception of Complex Movement" in a Radcliffe seminar in 2011. 58:
in 2002. Leading the company to its rebirth, they are credited with bringing the artistic excellence and repertory of the Company to a level not seen since Martha Graham’s death and were named Artistic Directors Laureate.
79:, Ms. Dakin is the recipient of the University of Michigan Alumni Award (2001), an Honorary Doctor of Arts from Shenandoah University (2001), and an Honorary Doctorate from the Universidad de Colima, Mexico (2007). 75:(2007/08), Visiting Lecturer for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (2006, 2009), offering the university’s first credit course in dance, and was the “Learning from Performers” guest artist (2001). Educated at the 118:
She is dancer and founding member of Buglisi Dance Theatre (1993), of danz.fest (Italy 2008) and Invernadero Danza (Mexico 2009). With Radcliffe Institute colleague, physicist
50:. Currently creating works for her are Brice Mousset, Alejandro Chávez, and Jaime Blanc. Performing in the principal theaters of the world, partnered by renowned artists such 54:
and filmed in the repertory, she was chosen by Graham for the company in 1976. Dakin became an Associate Artistic Director in 1997 and was named Artistic Director with
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Dakin is known for her performances of Ms. Graham's roles and for those created for her by Martha Graham and artists such as
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by Debra Craine and Judith Mackrell, Oxford University Press, Inc.
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Dakin has written and directed a film and interactive DVD,
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Index

New Haven
Martha Graham
Robert Wilson
Twyla Tharp
Martha Clarke
Rudolf Nureyev
Terese Capucilli
Bessie
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
University of Michigan
Juilliard School
Neighborhood Playhouse
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
Ballet Folklórico de México
Rafael Zamarripa
Z. Jane Wang
Dakin, Christine
NYT, March 15, 1984
NYT, December 18, 2002
Evelyn Green Davis Fellow
Univerdanza
Buglisi Dance Theatre
Radcliffe Exploratory Seminars 2011
Christine Dakin
Categories
1949 births
Living people
American modern dancers
Martha Graham
University of Michigan alumni

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