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Pat Graney is an American choreographer, based in Seattle, Washington. She founded the Pat Graney Dance Company in 1991, and continues to serve as its artistic director and executive director. The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation describes her work as "featur() a diverse set of movement vocabularies that range from ballet to gymnastics to martial arts; explorations of female identity and power; and rich visuals."〔 Seattle's On the Boards writes that "she often explores female identity and power, taking movement inspiration from ballet to gymnastics to martial arts to slapstick." Graney's 2004 piece ''The Vivian Girls'' was based on the drawings and stories of Henry Darger;〔 her ''Faith Triptych'', consisting of ''Faith'' (1991), ''Sleep'' (1995), and ''Tattoo'' (2001), was presented in 2010 at On the Boards.〔〔 A feminist activist as well as a choreographer, Graney has worked with incarcerated women through her Keeping the Faith/The Prison Project, and has worked with teens in the Seattle school system who have been identified as having been trafficked.〔 Graney has received numerous awards, including an Alpert Award in the Arts (2008), a USA Fellowship (2008) a 2013 Doris Duke Award.〔 ==Childhood and education== Born in St. Augustine, Florida, where her parents had move from Chicago, Graney grew up there and in Mechanicsville, Virginia and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. After graduating from high school in St. Augustine, she attended Tallahassee Community College (Tallahassee, Florida) and The Evergreen State College (Olympia, Washington), before going on to the University of Arizona. In Arizona, she studied extensively with John M. Wilson at the School of Dance, and received a BFA in 1979, at which time she moved to Seattle. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Pat Graney」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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