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Peter Sparling
Peter Sparling, Artistic Director, is a professor (1984- ) and former chair
(1988-95) of the University of Michigan Department of Dance and also Artistic
Director of the Ann Arbor-based Peter Sparling Dance Company. A graduate of
Interlochen Arts Academy and the Juilliard School, he was a member of the
Jose Limon Dance Company from 1971-73 and a principal dancer with the Martha
Graham Dance Company from 1973-87. He recently returned to Graham's company
for its Library of Congress performances of "Appalachian Spring" in 1998.
As a regisseur of the Martha Graham Trust, he has staged Graham's works on
his own company and on companies all over the world.
From 1979-83, he presented his solo concert, Solo Flight, and Peter
Sparling Dance Company for five successive seasons at New York's Riverside
Dance Festival. Sparling has held residencies at numerous American
universities and at the London Contemporary Dance Theatre, Australia's
Victorian College of the Arts, Portugal's Ballet Gulbenkian, Taiwan's Cloud
Gate Dance Theatre, the Bat-Dor Summer Dance Workshop and at the American
Dance Festival. He is a recipient of the 1998 Governor's Michigan Artist
Award and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, Michigan Council
for Arts and Cultural Affairs, Arts Foundation of Michigan and U/M Rackham
School for Graduate Studies. Sparling was a 1996-97 Faculty Fellow at the
U/M Institute for the Humanities and 1998 Fellow at the U/M Rackham Summer
Interdisciplinary Institute. He has worked extensively with composers,
actors, visual artists and scientists to create collaborative performance
works. An avid writer and poet, he has written texts for performance and
has been published in the Michigan Quarterly Review. |
