Martha Clarke
Theatre Director, Author
1944 –
Who is Martha Clarke?
Martha Clarke 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, 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, Kurt Weill's The Threepenny Opera will run at the Atlantic Theater Company in NYC from March 12 to May 11, 2014. The production features F. Murray Abraham and Laura Osnes.
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- Born
- Jun 3, 1944
Baltimore - Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Juilliard School
Choreography
- Juilliard School
- Lived in
- Baltimore
(1944/06/03 - )
- Baltimore
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on July 23, 2013
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