Christopher Bruce Biography (1945-)

Born October 3, 1945, in Leicester, England; married Marian Meadowcroft, 1967; children: two sons, one daughter. Career: Dancer, choreographer, andproducer. Debut with Walter Gore's London Ballet, 1963; Ballet Rambert (now Rambert Dance Company), dancer, 1963-79, leading dancer in modern roles,1966-79, choreographer, 1969--, associate choreographer, 1979-87, associate director, 1975-79, artistic director, 1994--; London Festival Ballet (now English National Ballet), associate choreographer, 1986-91; Houston Ballet, resident choreographer, 1989. Awards, Honors: Evening Standard Inaugural Dance Award, 1974. Addresses: Office: Rambert Dance Company, 94 Chiswick High Road, London W4 1SH, England; Houston Ballet, 1916 West Gray, P.O. Box 13150, Houston, TX 77219-3150.

Nationality: British
Gender: Male
Occupation: Dancer, choreographer, producer
Birth Details: October 3, 1945; Leicester, England

Famous Works

CREDITS
Stage Appearances
Principal dancer, The Realms of Choice, Ballet Rambert, London, England, 1965
Principal dancer, Diversities, Ballet Rambert, 1966
Pierrot, Pierrot Lunaire, Ballet Rambert, 1967
Principal dancer, Hazard, Ballet Rambert, 1967
Faune, L'Apres-midi d'un faune, Ballet Rambert, 1967
Principal dancer, Ziggurat, Ballet Rambert, 1967
Principal dancer, Ricercare, Ballet Rambert, 1967
Principal dancer, Embrace Tiger and Return to Mountain, Ballet Rambert, 1968
Principal dancer, The Act, Ballet Rambert, 1968
Principal dancer, Blind Sight, Ballet Rambert, 1969
Principal dancer, That Is the Show, Ballet Rambert, 1971
Principal dancer, Stop-Over, Ballet Rambert, 1972
Principal dancer, Table, Ballet Rambert, 1975
The Poet, Cruel Garden, Ballet Rambert, 1977
Principal dancer, Praeluduem, Ballet Rambert, 1978
Prospero, The Tempest, Ballet Rambert, Swetzingen, Germany, 1979
Principal dancer, Celebration, Ballet Rambert, 1979
Tchaikovsky/Drosselmeyer, The Nutcracker, London Festival Ballet,London, England, 1986
Title role, Petrushka, London Festival Ballet, 1988
Also appeared as Espada, Don Quixote, 1965; Wilfred, Giselle, 1965; and Principal dancer, tutti-fruiti, Ballet Rambert.
Stage Choreographer
George Frideric, Ballet Rambert, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1969
Living Space, Ballet Rambert, Guildford, England, 1969
Wings, Tanz Forum, Cologne, Germany, 1970
for these who die as cattle, Ballet Rambert, London, England, 1972
There Was a Time, Ballet Rambert, London, 1973
Duets, Ballet Rambert, London, 1973
Weekend, Ballet Rambert, London, 1974
Unfamiliar Playground, Royal Ballet, Sadler's Wells, London, England, 1974
Ancient Voices of Children, Ballet Rambert, London, 1975
Black Angels, Ballet Rambert, Horsham, England, 1976
Promenade, Ballet Rambert, London, 1976
Echoes of a Night Sky, Batsheva Dance Company, Israel, 1976

Voices, Batsheva Dance Company, 1976
(With Lindsay Kemp) Cruel Garden, Ballet Rambert, London, 1977
Responses, EMMA Dance Company, 1977
Labyrinth, Australian Dance Theatre, Melbourne, Australia, 1979
Night with Waning Moon, Ballet Rambert, London, 1979
Sidewalk, Ballet Rambert, Oxford, England, 1979
Interactions, Springplank, The Hague, The Netherlands, 1980
Preludes and Songs, Ballet Rambert, Cheltenham, England, 1980
Dancing Day, Rambert Academy, London, England, 1981
Cantata, Tanz Forum (of Cologne), London, England, 1981
Ghost Dances, Ballet Rambert, Bristol, England, 1981
Holiday Sketches, London Contemporary Dance School, London, England, 1981
Village Songs, Nederlands Dans Theater, Scheveningen, The Netherlands, 1981
Berlin Requiem, Ballet Rambert, London, 1982
In Alium, Nederlands Dans Theater, The Hague, 1982
Concertino, Ballet Rambert, Norwich, England, 1983
Curses and Blessings, Nederlands Dans Theater, Scheveningen, The Netherlands, 1983
Intimate Pages, Ballet Rambert, Birmingham, England, 1984
Sergeant Early's Dream, Ballet Rambert, Canterbury, England, 1984
Remembered Dances, Scottish Ballet, Glasgow, Scotland, 1985
Land, London Festival Ballet, London, 1985
Mutiny, Piccadilly, London, England, 1985
Ceremonies, Ballet Rambert, London, 1986
The World Again, London Festival Ballet, London, 1986
The Dream Is Over, Cullberg Ballet, 1986
Swansong, London Festival Ballet, Bilbao, 1987
Les Noces, Gulbenkian Ballet, Lisbon, Portugal, 1989
Gautama Buddha, Houston Ballet, Houston, Texas, 1989
Symphony in Three Movements, English National Ballet, Bristol, England, 1989
Journey, Houston Ballet, Houston, 1990
Rooster, Grand Theatre, Geneva, Switzerland, 1991
Nature Dances, Houston Ballet, Houston, 1992
Kingdom, Grand Theatre, Geneva, Switzerland, 1993
Moonshine, Nederlands Dans 3, 1993
Waiting, London Contemporary Dance Theatre, Nottingham, 1993
Crossing, Rambert Dance Company, 1994
Meeting Point, Rambert Dance Company, San Francisco, CA, 1995
Also worked as choreographer of dances in the operas Il Ballo Del Ingrate, Il Contattimento di Trancredi e Clorinda, and Venus and Adonis, all Kent Opera; choreographer of movement and dance, A Winter's Tale, 1987; choreographer of movement and dance, Changeling, 1988; choreographer of dances, Joseph and His Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.
Other Stage Work
Coproducer, Agrippina, Kent Opera.
Television Choreographer
Ancient Voices of Children, BBC, 1977
Cruel Garden, BBC, 1981-82
Ghost Dances, Channel 4, 1982 Danmarks Radio, 1990
Silence Is the End of Our Song, Royal Danish Ballet, Danish television commission, 1985
The Dream Is Over, Cullberg Ballet, London Weekend Television, 1986
Swansong, Danmarks Radio, 1989
Journey, Danmarks Radio, 1990
Requiem, Danish-German coproduction, 1982; The Dream Is Over, Danish-German coproduction, 1985; Moonshine, Danmarks Radio.
Film Work
Choreographer, Salome, Cannon, 1986

Further Reference

OTHER SOURCES

Periodicals:

Plays and Players, July, 1995, pp. 718-19.

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