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 Michael Schumacher: dance A graduate of Juilliard School, Schumaker has been a member of William Forsythe Company, Ballet Frankfurt, Twyla Tharp Dance, the Feld Ballet, and the Pretty Ugly Dance Company. He has been a key collaborative figure in several of Peter Sellars’ productions and has been featured in productions of Cora Bos-Kroese, Dana Caspersen, Anouk van Dijk, Mark Haim, Chico Katsube, Ruth Meyer, and Paul Selwyn Norton.
As a choreographer Schumacher has collaborated with the dancers of Ballet Frankfurt and Nederlands Dans Theater III, with his brother Steven, and with Daniela Graça, Marcelo Evelin, and Anat Geiger.
Over the last 10 years, Schumacher’s work has been featured regularly at the Holland Dance Festival, including duets, solo’s and a series of improvised duets with master Dutch musicians Han Bennink, Cor Fuhler and Wilbert de Joode.
A leading figure in the discipline of improvisation, Schumacher has collaborated with cellist and composer Alex Waterman on several occasions: Heaven Is A Radio (2003) at the Frascati Theater in Amsterdam; Dans le Jardin (2004) at the Biennale de la Danse in Lyon and at the STEPS Festival in Switzerland (2006); and Six Suites (2005) at the Holland Dance Festival in Den Haag. He continues to perform with Magpie Music Dance Company and conducts workshops in movement analysis and improvisation techniques worldwide.
Michael Schumacher began dancing in musical theatre productions in his hometown of Lewiston, Idaho. After moving to New York, he received a B.F.A. in Dance from the Juilliard School. He currently resides in Amsterdam.
Links:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lveqDWDMj9E
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