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6 unusual facts about Karole Armitage


Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater

Hence AAADT has a repertory of more than 200 works by over seventy choreographers, including such choreographers as Ulysses Dove, Karole Armitage, Uri Sands, Elisa Monte, Talley Beatty, Katherine Dunham and Twyla Tharp (whose work The Golden Section, excerpted from her larger ballet, The Catherine Wheel, entered AAADT's repertory in 2006).

Ihsan Rustem

He has created ballets with Karole Armitage, Matthew Bourne, Alexander Ekman, Wayne McGregor, Hofesh Shechter, Cayetano Soto, Ken Ossola, Georg Reischl and danced further works by  Maurice Béjart, William Forsythe, David Parsons and Twyla Tharp, amongst others.

Peter Speliopoulos

Speliopoulos has also worked as a costume designer for Karole Armitage, a New York ballet dancer who owns her own dance company.

He has also worked as a costume designer with the Rambert Dance Company in London for which Karole Armitage was a choreographer.

Rhys Chatham

During this period, he wrote several works for large guitar ensembles, including Drastic Classicism, a collaboration with dancer Karole Armitage.

The Elegant Universe

The Elegant Universe was also interpreted by choreographer Karole Armitage, of Armitage Gone!


Bart de Block

as the principal dancer, working with, most notably: Maurice Béjart, Marc Bogaerts, Valery Panov, Sir Kenneth McMillan, John Neumeier, Peter Schaufuss, Karole Armitage, Bill T. Jones, Moses Pendleton, Stephen Petronio, Nacho Duato, Christopher Bruce, Lucinda Childs


see also

Asher Edelman

Edelman has served on many Boards of Trustees of art and educational institutions including past Chairman of the Board of Brooklyn Academy of Music, Vice Chairman of American Ballet Theatre, Vice Chairman of the Alvin Ailey Dance Theater, Chairman of the Karole Armitage Dance Group, board member of the Prix de Lausanne, Gotham Chamber Opera, and many others.