CLARA GIBSON MAXWELL: CURRICULUM VITAE

CLARA GIBSON MAXWELL
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CURRICULUM VITAE
ORIGINAL CHOREOGRAPHIC WORK:
Appalachian Springs Foundation Gala Dance duo with Isabelle Dufau
2015 Oral Lake Fishing Club (Clarksburg, WV)
Soul Kitchen Commission: Musée de la Poste; Music: Robert Johnson/Ben Jonson/Jim Morrison/Dave Bryant/Chris Bowman
2014 Musée du Montparnasse and Espace Pierre Cardin (Paris); two singers, two dancers, electric piano, percussion
Lou Andreas-Salomé Commission: Verein für das Studium und die Förderung der Autonomie; three dancers, with Critical Theory
Professor Helmut Dahmer as Sigmund Freud
2012 APEX Theater Kabarett (Göttingen)
Encuentro-Encuentro Commission: Cátedra Interinstitucional Cornelius Castoriadis (Mexico)
2014 Film showings: Universidad de Guadalajara and Berlin
2012 Film showing: APEX Theater Kabarett (Göttingen)
2012 Film World Premiere: Cinéma Chaplin-Denfert (Paris)
2011 Multi-Arts Site Responsive performance at the Casa de la Primera Imprenta de América (Mexico City)
Trouble in Mind Solo (music: traditional blues)
2007 Showings: Studio Opinioni; Atelier Grangousier
Serious Joy Solo with cello (music: Jeffrey Mumford )
2006 Video shown at Philadelphia Music Project’s “New Frontiers in Music” Symposium
2000 Performances by Nancy Havlik at Dance Place (Washington, D.C.), supported by Workspace for Choreographers, and at Baltimore School for the Arts (Baltimore, MD)
1996 Invited Artist, Faculty Concert Series, University of New Hampshire (Dover, NH)
Trinity Music: Ornette Coleman's Trinity
2014 Musée du Montparnasse and Espace Pierre Cardin (Paris)
2012 Casa de la Primera Imprenta de América (Mexico City)
2005 "Arts on Foot" Kick-off event for Capital Fringe Festival (Washington, DC), with Laura Schandelmeier (dancer), Tom Chiu (violin)
2004 Salon des Arcades, l’Hôtel de Ville de Paris; duo with Isabelle Pierre (dancer), Tom Chiu (violin)
2003 Bilingual Cafe Philo (Gale Prawda) at Café de Flore (Paris); duo with Isabelle Pierre (dancer), Tom Chiu (violin)
2003 Guest-Artist, Dance Place (Washington, DC), "Harmolodic" duo with Tom Chiu (violin)
Clara&Bobby "Music and Dance Beyond Improvisation" at Les Sept Lézards Jazz Club (Paris)
2005 Dance duo with jazz combo, Bobby Few (piano), Harry Swift and Jack Gregg (bass), Isabelle Pierre (dancer)
Grand Opening Grand
Opening of a new Imac Improvisational Music Center (Tour & Taxi, Brussels,
Belgium)
2004 Solo dancer, accompanied by Noah
Howard (saxophone), Bobby
Few (piano), other jazz musicians and poets
Pourquoi un ordinateur ne peut-il pas remplacer l’esprit humain?
Cocktail-Performance Salon
des Arcades, Hôtel de Ville
2004 À l’invitation de la
Maire adjointe chargée des Nouvelles Technologies; video-projections
James Edward Davis
L’Aimable
Music (Pancrace
Royer)
2004 Performance of Maxwell’s choreography by Laura
Schandelmeier. Kennedy
Center Millennium Stage
2004 Salon
des Arcades, l’Hôtel de Ville de Paris
2003 Performance of Maxwell’s choreography by Laura
Schandelmeier. The Field, Dance Place (Washington, DC)
À Fleur de femmes Solo dance and Ensemble Andiamo
chorus member.
2003 Operatic mise en scène, Nibelle, France.
Thinkin' It Thru With the Happy Few Solo dance with
musicians (Bobby Few,
Tom Chiu, Harry Swift, John Handelsman)
2003 Bilingual Café Philo (Gale
Prawda) at Les Sept Lézards Jazz
Club (Paris)
Trinity Music:
Ornette Coleman's Trinity
2003 Guest-Artist, Dance
Place (Washington, DC), "Harmolodic" duo with violinist Tom
Chiu as part of The Field, DC
Se Plaire à Plaisance
Solo dance (music: Bobby Few
), storytelling, shakuhachi
performance, and site-responsive improvisations in artists' studios
2002 "Journées Portes Ouvertes" sponsored by the Mairie
of the 14th arrondissement and L'Entrepôt
(Paris)
Cellodanse Solo dance
for live cello (Bach's Second Cello Suite played by Romain
Garioud ) followed by a bilingual discussion on art as experience
2001 Discussion led by Café
Philo's Gale Prawda at Café
de Flore (Paris)
The Banquet
2001 Site-responsive dance duo for artist José
Ferreira's copy-art vernissage at Le
Centre des Arts Vivants (Paris)
2001 Multiarts site-responsive performances (music: Ornette
Coleman ; Pancraçe
Royer performed by Susan
Jacobs Lockhart; film projections: James Edward
Davis ) Integral collaboration with the
Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture in conjunction with the Frank
Lloyd Wright Foundation and Taliesin
Architects ; performed at Taliesin
West (Scottsdale, AZ)
2000 Site-responsive dance duo for Les
Verts du XIVe end-of-year preelection party (Paris)
Corpsensus
Duo with piano, cello, violin (music: Royer
, Mumford
, live European premiere: Ornette Coleman's
Trinity)
1999 followed by "Chautauquas" with French art critics and historians (Jean-Marie
Brohm, Marc Le
Bot , Claude Frontisi) and philosophers (Christian Descamps, Claude Lefort);
Théâtre du Renard (Paris)
Corpus Solo commissioned for
Centre Thomas
More's "Corps et art au XXe siècle" colloquium (music:
Satie)
1998 Le
Corbusier's Couvent
de Sainte-Maire de la Tourette (L'Arbresle)
Corparole/Bodytalk Trio "Old and New Work" (music: Royer
, Mumford
, Ornette Coleman )
1997 Studio de l'Ermitage (Paris)
Corps-Éros
Solo commissioned by the Festival
de l'Imaginaire , followed by two-hour discussion
1997 Maison des Cultures
du Monde (Paris)
Le Projet Noir Quartet (music: Royer
); Solo (music: Markovitch)
1997 "Chantiers en cours," Atelier
Artesonado (Paris)
La Cartésienne/Cartesian
Women Trio meditation on the unity of body, mind, & soul (music:
Royer
, Mumford
, Ravel)
1997 "Projection of Video and Discussion, "Seventeenth-Century Women Philosophers" Conference, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
1995-96 Théâtre
Dunois (Paris), Firehouse
Center for the Arts (Newburyport, MA)
Creation Myth Ballet for 10 children (original music: Jessica
Krash --tape, harp, saxophone, viola, children's chorus)
1994 Commission at National
Park's Glen Echo Park Hall of Mirrors Series (Glen Echo, MD)
Cartesian Studies Solo (music: Royer
, Ligeti, Ravel--harpsichord: Jory
Vinikour )
1994 Regard du Cygne
(Paris)
Buried Oak Trio for older
gentleman & two women (original music: Alan
Silva --tape, live synthesizer)
1993-94 Tanz Tangente (Berlin, Germany), Dance
Theater Workshop (NYC), Palazzo Bardi (Florence, Italy)
Bubbeh's Grace Duet with dancer & violist (original music: Jessica Krash --computer tape, voice, viola)
1993 Faculty Music Series, Tawes Recital Hall, University of Maryland (College Park, MD)
Equine Geometry Duet for horse and dancer (original music
& live improvisation: Alan
Silva , Noah Howard
, Jeanne
Lee , Kidd Jordan)
1993 Frank
Wright Avant-Garde Festival, Haus Schönblick Sculpture Garden (Heimbach,
Germany)
Celtic Baby Disco Duet for dancer & light in site-specific
environment (original music: Alan
Silva --tape, live synthesizer)
1993 Alternative Culture Festival, Multi-Kulti, Haus der Stadt (Düren, Germany)
Choros Video Project Solo Collaboration with Ornette
Coleman
1990-93 Ferme du
Buisson (Marne-la-Vallée, France) Extensive rehearsals with Ornette
Coleman /Prime Time (NYC)
Ophélie Song
Antoine Campo's rock "opéra minimal" (original music: Pascal
Humbert ; choreography/song: C. Maxwell)
1989 31-performance Tour: Café
de la Danse (Paris), La MaMa E.T.C.
(NYC), Edinburgh Fringe Festival
Sweet, Hot 'n' Stompin', Girouette and Rite
1987 Trio, Prix Chorégraphique Marcelle Bourgat (music: Duke
Ellington , Vivaldi, Australian Aborigines)
Forum du Mouvement (Paris), Studio Gulliver (Paris), Salon de la Danse (Paris)
Entr'acte Ballets Trio for women commissioned by the Paris
American Academy (music: collage)
1986 Théâtre de la Ville (Le Havre, France)
Tsigane Gypsy solo with touring Romanian folk dance company (music: traditional Romanian)
1985-86 Extensive touring with Danse de Roumanie (France)
Satin Dolls, City Slicker, Vortex, Lillian, Petrograd, Lust Study, Beethoven Sonata
1980-84 Juilliard
Dance Ensemble (NYC)
DANCE COMPANY EXPERIENCE:
Mon Oncle D'Amérique Productions
1987- Artistic Director/Choreographer
Robert
Garland (Resident Choreographer, Dance
Theater of Harlem)
2004 Solo Dance, Keeping Still/Mountain
Laura Schandelmeier
2004, 2001 Soloist on pointe, Annabel, Dance
Place (Washington, DC)
2001 Dancer. Bob Ballard's The Great Flood (National Geographic Society documentary). Cinematographer: Foster Wiley
Compagnie Retouramont/Rendez-Vous de la Danse de la Biennale du Val-du-Marne
2002 Dancer, Geneviève Mazin and Yann Desbrosses' Le sens de la visite ( Batofar , Paris)
Mark DeGarmo & Dancers
1989 Soloist, Jewish
Museum (NYC) Soloist, No Strings Attached, Café
de la Danse (Paris)
1988-89 Guest Artist, New York State Tour
Ruby Shang & Dancers
1987 Guest Artist, Lincoln
Center Out of Doors (NYC)
1986 Codirector, Dance for Liberty, a Paris/NY Transatlantic Simuldance
(music: Marcus Stockhausen
)
Andy de Groat/Red Notes
1986 Dancer, Vidéo-Danse, cinematographer: Charles Picq (Saint-Quentin, France)
Ko
Murabushi
1986 Dancer, Panta Rei, UNESCO Gala (Paris)
Danse Impro Des Jeunes Artistes Martiniquais
1986 Dancer (Paris)
Marilen Breuker/l'Icosaedre Danse-Théâtre
1985 Apprentice (Reims, France)
Cirque Magicville
1985-88 Traveling circus clown and kick-line chorus girl (France)
Brooklyn Dance Ensemble
1984 Dancer (Brooklyn, NY)
Juilliard
Dance Ensemble
1980-84 Soloist: works by Antony
Tudor , Anna
Sokolow , José Limon
, Bob
Fosse (NYC)
Satoru Shimazaki
1980-82 Dancer: Works by Michio
Ito (NYC)
Mary Anthony Dance Theater
1979 Apprentice (NYC)
Harvard-Radcliffe
Dance Company
1976-79 Dancer: Work by Remy
Charlip among others (Cambridge, MA)
TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
Sigmund Freud University (Vienna, Austria)
2013 Alexander Technique Teacher
The Waldomore (National Register of Historic Places, Clarksburg, WV)
2010 Multi-Arts Lecture Demonstration: "Marcel Breuer and the Building of the Clarksburg-Harrison Public Library"
2009 Multi-Arts Lecture Demonstration: "Louis A. Johnson"
University of Cincinnati, Dance Division
2009 Modern Dance Classes
West Virginia
University, Division of Theater and Dance (Morgantown, WV)
2005 Alexander Technique Teacher, Fall Term
2001, 1993 Performance/Master Classes/Guest Artist
Institut Oneto (Paris, France)
2002 Private Pilates/Alexander Technique-based movement classes
Baltimore School for the Arts (Baltimore, MD)
2000 Lecture-Demonstration for the Music and Dance Departments
Private Alexander
Technique Practice
1999- Certified Alexander Technique International Teacher
L'Ermitage (Paris)
1997 Dance Workshop/Alexander Technique-based barre
Tanz Tangente (Berlin, Germany)
1994 Improvisation Workshop
New England
Conservatory of Music (Boston, MA)
1991 Performance/Improvisation Seminar with George Russell, Cecil Taylor, and Alan Silva
École Nationale
Supérieure des Arts et des Techniques du Théâtre
(Paris)
1990 Master Classes in lighting/video/dance
PUBLICATIONS:
"Should Clarksburg Build New Cultural Center or Renovate Rose Garden Theater?" Clarksburg Exponent-Telegram (Clarksburg, West Virginia), December 16, 2012.
"A Conversation with Paris Ballet Master Wayne Byars.
by Clara Gibson Maxwell," ExChange: The Journal of Alexander Technique International, 17:2 (Spring 2009): 22-27.
"Team Teaching the Alexander Technique at My Home-State University," ExChange: The Journal of Alexander Technique International, 14:1 (February 2006): 1, 4-11.
Interview with Ornette Coleman on Friendship,
Cadence, November 1999.
"Dance, Tudor, and Monsters," Zen Notes, 1989;
"Notes on Tudor," Zen Notes, 34:5 (May 1987): 5-6
"Dancing Tudor's Cereus," Zen Notes, 28:10 (October 1981): 6.
RESIDENCIES:
Centre National de la Danse (August-September 2006)
Dance Place (April 2003,
December 2004)
Taliesin
West, Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation/Frank
Lloyd Wright School of Architecture (November 2000, February 2001)
Workspace for Choreographers Foundation (January 2000; April 2000)
EDUCATION SUMMARY:
Amsterdam-Maasctricht
Summer University
2002 Life Art: Use of New Media Technologies in Performance
Paris
Writers Workshop
2002 Deep Writing, with Eric Maisel
Alexander Technique
International
1980-99 Training in the Alexander Technique
Latin/Greek
Institute
1992 Intensive study of Ancient Greek for Choros project, CUNY--Brooklyn College (NYC)
Institute
for Art, Culture, and Perception
1990 George Russell's "Lydian Chromatic Concept" seminar for Choros project (Paris)
Cambridge
University Summer School
1988 Trinity Hall Shakespeare course (Cambridge, England)
Académie Des Professeurs de Danse En Île-de-france
1987 Diplôme de Monitrice de Danse (Paris)
Juilliard
School
1980-84 B.F.A. Dance (NYC)
Harvard University
1976-79 Philosophy and Film (Cambridge, MA)
TECHNIQUES:
Composition Hanya
Holm , Jacqueline Robinson, Jerome Andrews, Alfredo Corvino, Janet Soares
Ballet M et Mme Raymond Franchetti, Jacqueline Fynnaert (Paris)
Alfredo Corvino, Hector
Zaraspe (
Juilliard ), Mary Day (
Academy of the Washington Ballet )
Modern Hanya
Holm , Jerome Andrews, Carolyn
Carlson , Martha
Graham , Dominique
Mercy , Dominique
et Françoise Dupuy
Improvisation Simone Forti (NYC, Liège, Pantin), Patricia
Kuypers (Brussels; Trielle, France), Mark
Tompkins (Paris)
F. M. Alexander Walter Carrington (London), David
Gorman (NYC/London/Paris/Saint-Alexandre), Godard Binkley, Suzon Holzer,
Gilles Estran, Eillen
Sellam (Paris), Tommy Thompson (Cambridge, MA),
Beret Arcaya and Troup Mathews (NYC), Barbara Conable (Columbus OH), Tessa
Marwick & Paul Versteeg (Amsterdam)
Pilates Kathy Grant (NYC), Jerome Andrews (Paris), Philippe Taupin (Paris), Christina Maria Gadar (Sarasota)
Lighting Jennifer
Tipton & Dana Reitz (NYC & Brussels)
MUSICAL STUDIES/ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
Voice Teachers: Beret Arcaya , Lione Mathews (NYC), Marie-Henriette DeJean, Dorothy Stone, Anne Dubost-Charvet, George Roiron (Paris)
1989 Ophélie Song:
Long-Play 10-track 45-rpm record (New Rose), 15-minute Video (SACD #34430)
Shakuhachi
Teacher: Ronnie Nyogestu Seldin
1980-84 Brooklyn Botanical Gardens
(Brooklyn, NY), St.
Joseph's Church (NYC) Juilliard
School (NYC)
Badge RATP 5960 2 (autorisation musicien)
Percussion Teachers: Guem,
Henri Samba (Paris)
LANGUAGES:
Fluently bilingual French/EnglishAncient, Greek (reading tragedy)
ZEN TRAINING:
Joshu Sasaki Roshi (NY,
California)), Mary Farkas & Antony
Tudor (First Zen Institute of America, NYC)