Английская Википедия:Ana Itelman

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Ana Itelman (20 August 1927 – 16 September 1989) was a Chilean-born dancer and choreographer, who spent most of her career in Argentina and the United States. Serving as a professor at Bard College and then director of the school of dance, she toured internationally between 1957 and 1969. In 1970, she returned to Argentina and established a contemporary dance theater. She was honored with the Konex Award for choreography in 1989.

Early life

Ana Itelman was born on 20 August 1927 in Santiago, Chile.Шаблон:Sfn When she was two years old, her family relocated to Argentina.Шаблон:Sfn She studied dance at the Conservatorio Nacional de Danza (National Conservatory of Dance)Шаблон:Sfn and Conservatorio Nacional de Música y Arte Escénico (National Conservatory of Music and Performing Arts), graduating in 1945.Шаблон:Sfn

Career

In the early 1940s, Itelman joined Myriam Winslow's dance troupe, the first Argentine modern dance company. After five years, in 1945 she moved to the United States training with Martha Graham, Hanya Holm, Louis Horst, and José LimónШаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn to perfect her craft. Returning to Argentina in 1947, Itelman began choreographing and performing solo work, and created a modern dance studio in 1950 to develop her own company. She premiered in 1955 with a fusion style in "Esta ciudad de Buenos Aires" (This is the City of Buenos Aires), which combined tango dynamics with classical choreography.Шаблон:Sfn

Itelman returned to the United States in 1957 and began working as an associate professor of dance at Bard College and began choreographing and supervising performances for the college's dance students.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn In 1965, she was the head of the dance department at Bard.Шаблон:Sfn Simultaneously with her teaching, Itelman continued her own training with Merce Cunningham and Alwin Nikolais, among others, and studied lighting and makeup at the Dramatic Workshop run by Erwin Piscator.

She took lessons in performance with Lee Strasberg and attended painting classes at the Brooklyn Museum.Шаблон:Sfn In the summers, she returned to South America, performing in various theaters in Buenos Aires,Шаблон:Sfn as well as performing in Ecuador, Montevideo and in Brazil at the 400th anniversary of the founding of Rio de Janeiro,Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn or toured in Europe. Itelman performed in England, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and the USSR.Шаблон:Sfn She remained at Bard as the Director of the dance department until 1969, when she returned to Buenos Aires.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn

In 1970, Itelman founded the Café Estudio de Teatro Danza and began developing both creative and educational aspects of dance theater. She staged "Alicia en el país de las Maravillas" as her first production.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn Her studio is now the home of the Choreographic Workshop at the San Martín Theater. Between 1977 and her death, she created choreographies of works which have become iconic pieces for the Workshop, including: El capote (The cloak), Historia del soldado (History of the soldier), Las casas de Colomba (The houses of Colomba, inspired by Tennessee Williams's iconic play A Streetcar Named Desire), Paralelo al horizonte (Parallel to the horizon), Suite de percal (Suite of percale) and Y ella lo visitaba (And she visited it).Шаблон:Sfn

Death and legacy

Itelman committed suicide on 16 September 1989 in Buenos Aires.Шаблон:Sfn That same year, she was honored with the Konex Award for choreography.Шаблон:Sfn On the tenth anniversary of her death, a tribute to her choreography was held at the Ana Itelman Salon on Guardia Vieja in Buenos Aires.Шаблон:Sfn Rubén Szuchmacher released Archivo Itelman in 2002, a biography of Itelman's career and artistic trajectory which chronicled her impact on modern dance in Argentina.Шаблон:Sfn In 2004, Шаблон:Ill staged a retrospective of her worksШаблон:Sfn

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