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Martha Clarke (born June 3, 1944) 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'' (1984), 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'' ) ran at the Atlantic Theater Company in NYC from March 12 to May 11, 2014. The production featured F. Murray Abraham and Laura Osnes. (''Chéri'' ), inspired by the classic 1920 novella by controversial French author Colette, ran from November 19, 2013 to Dec. 29, 2013 at the Signature Theatre in New York City. It featured dancers Herman Cornejo & Alessandra Ferri, actress Amy Irving and pianist Sarah Rothenberg. A world tour occurred in 2014. ''Angel Reapers'', a collaboration with Pulitzer prize-winner Alfred Uhry, toured New England with performances at The Joyce Theater in 2011. She created the full-evning work ''L’altra metá del cielo'' spring 2012 at La Scala Opera in Milan, Italy. In 1990, she received a MacArthur Award, popularly known as the "genius grant" and, in June 2010, the ''(2010 Samuel H. Scripps/American Dance Festival Award for Lifetime Achievement )''.〔 She is the recipient of the (2013 Dance Magazine Award ). In 2014, she received her second (Joe A. Callaway choreography award ) for ''Chéri''. In 2009, she received her first Callaway choreography award for ''Garden of Earthly Delights''. She is the only recipient in the SDC Joe A. Callaway award's history to receive two awards for choreography. ==Upbringing, training, and early career== Born into a family of musicians in suburban Baltimore, she studied dance with Carolyn Lynn in the preparatory program of the Peabody Conservatory, then going on to study at the dance program of the Juilliard School under Antony Tudor and Anna Sokolow. She then spent three years performing with the modern dance choreographer Anna Sokolow and the Dance Theater Workshop. She later became a founding member of Pilobolus Dance Theatre and Crowsnest before going on to a highly original career as a director/choreographer. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Martha Clarke」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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