Lucinda Childs

Lucinda Childs began her career as a choreographer in the 1960s at the Judson Dance Theatre. She founded her own company in 1973 and three years later collaborated with Philip Glass and Bob Wilson on the creation of the opera Einstein on the Beach. Her subsequent shows bear the mark of her many collaborations, notably with Bob Wilson for I Was Sitting on My Patio This Guy Appeared I Thought I Was Hallucinating (1977), Philip Glass and Sol LeWitt for Dance (1979), and John Adams and Frank Gehry for Available Light (1983). Lucinda Childs focuses her work on contemporary music and creates pieces based on works by Ligeti (Rhythm Plus, 1991), Górecki (Concerto, 1993) and Roger Reynolds (On the Balance of Things, 1998). In addition to creating works for her own company, she has also produced several pieces for other companies, including the Martha Graham Dance Company (Histoire, 1999), the Bayerisches Staatsballet (Handel/Corelli, 2001), the Ballet National de Marseille (Tempo Vicino, 2009) and the Ballet de l'Opéra de Lyon (Grande fugue, 2016). Lucinda Childs has recently embarked on a project to recreate several of her works, including Dance for the Ballet de l’Opéra de Lyon, Available Light with her company, and several programmes of short works with her niece Ruth Childs. The Festival d’Automne has supported her work since its inception, notably with a Portrait dedicated to her in 2016.