Peter Sparling

Peter Sparling

Peter Sparling is a Thurnau Professor and former chair of the University of Michigan Department of Dance and Artistic Director of the Ann Arbor-based Peter Sparling Dance Company. A native of Detroit and graduate of Interlochen Arts Academy and The Juilliard School, he danced with the Jose Limon Dance Company from 1971-73. From 1973-87, he was a principal dancer with the Martha Graham Dance Company and served as her choreographic assistant. Since then he has returned often to perform, coach and teach. As a regisseur of the Martha Graham Trust, he has staged Graham’s works on his own company and on companies all over the world. [cite web |url=http://www.dia.org/exhibitions/artiststake/bios/sparling_bio.html |title=Artist Bio - Peter Sparling |format= |work= ]

Sparling presented Peter Sparling Dance Company and his solo performance, “Solo Flight”, for five successive seasons at New York’s Riverside Dance Festival from 1979-83. He has held residencies at the American Dance Festival, at numerous American universities and in London, Australia, Portugal and Taiwan. He is a recipient of the 1998 Governor’s Michigan Artist Award and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs and Arts Foundation of Michigan. Since coming to UM in 1984, he has received a Faculty Recognition Award and grants from OVPR, Rackham School for Graduate Studies and the Office of the President. He was a 2003 Michigan Road Scholar. Sparling was recently honored as a distinguished alumnus of Interlochen Center for the Arts for its 75th Anniversary. He is on the roster of the Fulbright Senior Specialists Program and a National Screening Committee Member for the Institute of International Education/US Graduate Student Fulbright Program. [cite web |url=http://www.theatre.umich.edu/faculty_staff/sparling.peter.lasso |title=UM School of Music - Peter Sparling |format= |work= ]

He was a faculty fellow with the first Rackham Summer Interdisciplinary Institute and a member of the UM Society of Fellows.Fact|date=January 2008 A 2001-2 Interdisciplinary Faculty Associate at the Center for Research on Learning and Teaching, he has designed and co-taught a Videodance course for the past five years.Fact|date=January 2008 He has written texts for performance and has had his poetry and articles published in the Michigan Quarterly Review and Choreography and Dance. [cite web |url=http://www.dancegalleryfoundation.org/sparling/index.php?topic=Peter_Sparling |title= The Peter Sparling Dance Company |format= |work= ] He choreographed and directed Gluck’s opera, “Orfeo and Euridice”, for University Musical Society’s 2001-2002 season. He was commissioned by the Detroit Institute of Arts to create work for both the “Detroit 300: Artists Take on Detroit: Projects for the Tricentennial” and the exhibit, ”Degas and the Dance”. His solo show, “Bodytalk: A Vaudeville for Dancing Man at Middle Age”, premiered at the 2002 Ann Arbor Summer Festival, featuring original text and video as well as a host of distinguished collaborators such as Linda Gregerson, Rudolf Arnheim and Charles Baxter. His video/performance work, “Peninsula”, received its premiere at the 2004 Ann Arbor Summer Festival and has toured throughout the state and to the Chicago Humanities Festival. It celebrates the cultural and economic history, geography and diverse landscapes of his home state of Michigan. His videodance, “Babel”, was recently selected for screening at the 2007 NY Dance on Camera Festival at Lincoln Center. It is also featured in his new videodance installation, Allegorica, opening in November, 2007. His work, Vox Humana, will be premiered by the Grand Rapids Ballet in April, 08. His most recent project, Climbing Ste.-Victoire, is a full-evening dance/theater work inspired by the late paintings of Cezanne. [cite web |url=http://www.dia.org/exhibitions/artiststake/bios/sparling_bio.html |title=Artist Bio - Peter Sparling |format= |work= ]

Sparling received the Adaptive Re-Use Award from the Ann Arbor Historical Commission for a project that renovated a ball bearing factory along Ann Arbor’s North Main St. corridor for the organization’s new home. Fact|date=January 2008

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* [http://www.petersparlingdanceco.org Peter Sparling Dance Company]


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