Ulysses Dove.Ulysses Dove, 49, a leading American choreographer [see June issue, page 66], died of AIDS-related illness in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. on June 11, 1996. A native of Columbia, South Carolina Columbia is the state capital and largest city of South Carolina. As of 2006, estimates for the population of the city proper is 122,819[1]. Columbia is the county seat of Richland County, but a small portion of the city extends into Lexington County. , Dove studied dance there and at Howard University and Bennington College. He performed with the companies of Mary Anthony, Pearl Lang, Merce Cunningham, and Alvin Ailey, with whom he performed from 1973 through 1980. He then became assistant director of the experimental wing of the Paris Opera, the Choreographic Research Group. Among the many companies for which he choreographed were Ailey, Ballet France de Nancy, Basel Ballet, Cullberg Ballet of Sweden, Les Ballets Jazz de Montreal, and Swedish National Ballet. He also collaborated with director Robert Wilson and composer Philip Glass on the opera The Civil Wars (1986). Recent Dove works seen in New York City were Serious Pleasures, for American Ballet Theatre American Ballet Theatre, one of the foremost international dance companies of the 20th cent. It was founded in 1937 as the Mordkin Ballet and reorganized as the Ballet Theatre in 1940 under the direction of Lucia Chase and Rich Pleasant. (1992); Red Angels, for New York City Ballet's Diamond Project (1994); and his last work, Twilight, which received its NYCB NYCB New York City Ballet NYCB New York Community Bank premiere on May 23. His work was the subject of a 1995 PBS PBS in full Public Broadcasting Service Private, nonprofit U.S. corporation of public television stations. PBS provides its member stations, which are supported by public funds and private contributions rather than by commercials, with educational, cultural, Dance in America television program, "Two by Dove," which won an Emmy. |
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