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Carlson, Carolyn

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Personal name headingCarlson, Carolyn
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Associated countryParis (France)
Birth date1943-03-07
Place of birthOakland (Calif.)
Field of activityDance Modern dance Choreography Dance schools Dance companies Motion pictures Poetry Calligraphy
AffiliationUniversity of Utah Alwin Nikolais Dance Company Théâtre national de Chaillot
Profession or occupationDancers Choreographers Dance teachers Poets Calligraphers Actors
Found inLê-Anh, C. Carolyn Carlson, 1978 (subj.) t.p. (Carolyn Carlson) cover p. 4 (modern dancer, formerly with Alwin Nikolais troupe)
Poesía sin fin, 2016: title screens (Carolyn Carlson, cast)
French Wikipedia, July 27, 2018: (Carolyn Carlson, dancer, choreographer, poet, calligrapher; born March 7, 1943, in Oakland, California; studied dance at the San Francisco School of Ballet and the University of Utah; joined the Nikolais Dance Theater in New York City in 1965; in 1970 left New York for France, where she joined the dance company of Anne Béranger as soloist and choreographer; since 1972 has worked as a choreographer in prominent opera, ballet, and theatrical companies in Paris, Venise, Stockholm, and Helsinki; in 1999 founded her own studio in Paris, Atelier de Paris-Carolyn Carlson; also since 2005 has been director of the Centre Choréographique National Roubaix Nord-Pas de Calais; in 2014 founded her own dance company, the Carolyn Carlson Company, headquartered at the Théâtre National de Chaillot; has also published poetry and calligraphy)
AV Club, film review of Endless poetry, posted July 13, 2017, accessed via WWW, July 27, 2018: (Carolyn Carlson, storied choreographer, is making her film debut in Alejandro Jodorowsky's Endless poetry (Poesía sin fin))
Associated languageeng