Lucinda Childs is the creator of choreutic Minimalism and one of the leaders of American Postmodernism in the 1960s, with Trisha Brown, Twyla Tharp and Yvonne Rainer. For the last four years, Childs has been a Master Teacher at the theatredance course at the Paolo Grassi School of Dramatic Art of Milan. In Short Ride in a Fast Machine she has organised and choreographed the improvisations created during the course by the graduating third-year students, after a year of experimenting with ideas and suggestions on Futurism, the genial and irreverent Italian breeding ground of avant-garde talent. So, this “short ride in a fast machine” absorbs Lucinda Childs’ choreographic impetus and an echo of the suggestions that the word future has sparked off in the minds of the young dancers.


Capofila del Postmodern americano anni Sessanta, con Trisha Brown, Twyla Tharp e Yvonne Rainer, Lucinda Childs è la creatrice del Minimalismo coreutico. Childs da quattro anni è Master Teacher al corso di teatrodanza della Scuola d’Arte Drammatica Paolo Grassi di Milano. Con Short Ride in a Fast Machine ha organizzato e coreografato le improvvisazioni nate dal corso degli allievi diplomandi del terzo anno, dopo un anno di sperimentazione di idee e suggestioni sul Futurismo. Spettacolo di danza degli allievi della Scuola Civica d'Arte Drammatica Paolo Grassi di Milano.

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