Tag: Michael Clark
Michael Clark : the British iconoclast who brought punk ballet to the masses : in Conversation with Les Child
Hailed as “British dance’s true iconoclast”, the most notable of all his successes of queer Scottish choreographer Michael Clark who emerged in the 1980s as a prodigy at London’s Royal Ballet School, was bringing punk ballet to the masses. The list of the people he has collaborated with since then reads like an inevitable…
Michael Clark : Cosmic Dancer
No young queer about town in the late eighties or early nineties could fail to have noticed the cherubic presence (a very, very naughty cherub mind you) of Michael Clark on the cultural landscape. The outlandish costumes (crotchless, latex or sleek and hypermodern creations) alongside daring collaborations (Leigh Bowery/Derek Jarman/Sarah Lucas/Alexander McQueen/Vivienne Westwood/The Falll) were…
