Lucinda Childs Dance Company

Lucinda Childs Dance Company is celebrating its 50th anniversary season. The current iteration of the company has been dazzling audiences since 2009 and solely performs the work of Ms. Childs. Over the past 15 years, the company has toured to more than 25 countries and dozens of states in the U.S., performing a variety of programs including DANCE (Philip Glass and Sol Lewitt), Available Light (John Adams and Frank Gehry), The Early Works, and the Olivier-Award Winning revival of the Philip Glass/Robert Wilson/Lucinda Childs opera Einstein on the Beach. The 50 years of choreographic work that the company has performed, has demonstrated the artistic career of one of the most celebrated choreographers of a generation.

Lucinda Childs was born in 1940, in New York City. She began her career at the Judson Dance Theater in 1963 where she choreographed thirteen works and performed in choreography by Yvonne Rainer, Steve Paxton, and Robert Morris. Since forming her dance company in 1973, she has created over fifty works, both solo and ensemble. In 1976, she collaborated with Robert Wilson and Philip Glass on the opera, Einstein on the Beach, as principal performer and choreographer for which she received a Village Voice Obie award. She received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1979 for her collaboration, Dance, with music by Philip Glass, and film décor by Sol LeWitt. Since 1981, she has choreographed over thirty works for major ballet companies including the Paris Opera Ballet, Les Ballets de Monte Carlo, and Baryshnikov's White Oak Dance Company. She has also worked as choreographer and more recently both choreographer and director for sixteen opera productions. Childs received the Bessie Award for Sustained Achievement in 2001 and was elevated from the rank of Officer to Commander in France's Order of Arts and Letters in 2004 and received the NEA/NEFA American Masterpiece Award in 2009.