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The 2007 winner is Michael Keegan-Dolan
The nominations for 2007 were:
Javier De Frutos, Mark Morris and Michael Keegan-Dolan
More information about each choreographer is given below:
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Javier De Frutos
for Los Picadores And Paseillo
Set to Igor Stravinsky’s Les Noces, De Frutos’ Los Picadores was co-commissioned by the Biennale Festival in Venice. The work draws upon the music’s fiery essence translating it into a powerful physical fight between men and women. In the UK Los Picadores was presented in a programme that also included Paseillo, set to religious music by Mozart, which marked, with equal success, De Frutos’ first term as Artistic Director of Phoenix Dance Company.
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Michael Keegan-Dolan
for The Bull
Founder and Director of Fabulous Beast Dance Theatre, choreographer Michael Keegan-Dolan is acknowledged to be the greatest choreographer to have emerged from Ireland since Ninette de Valois. His astonishing physical theatre pieces in collaboration with the Dublin Theatre Festival and The Barbican have included an Olivier-nominated Giselle, The Flowerbed and, most recently, The Bull. His work is challenging, intelligent, shot through with scatological humour and firmly in the narrative tradition.
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Mark Morris
for Mozart Dances
Mozart Dances has been widely acclaimed and considered comparable with Morris’s other masterpiece, L’Allegro il Penseroso ed il Moderato. It is a full-length work which uses two Mozart piano concertos and a piano sonata for its setting and in creating this work, Morris has interpreted the music with depth and lightness of touch. Thanks to such successful creations as this one, Morris remains one of the most popular and in demand dance makers worldwide.
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Picture credits
Russell Maliphant © Chris Nash,
Javier De Frutos © Gavin Evans,
Michael Keegan-Dolan © Caitriona Archer,
Mark Morris © Amber Darragh.
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