Lenora Champagne

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Lenora Champagne
Born1951 (age 73–74)
Opelousas, Louisiana, U.S.
OccupationPlaywright, performance artist, director, professor
NationalityAmerican
Education Louisiana State University (BA)
New York University (MA, PhD)
Spouse Robert Lyons
Children1

Lenora Champagne is an American playwright and performing artist. [1] [2] [3]

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Early years

Champagne was born in Opelousas, Louisiana, in 1951. Her father was a farmer and ran a general store. As a child, Champagne wanted to be a doctor. [4] She studied literature and visual art at Louisiana State University, where she was involved in the antiwar and women's movements. After receiving her BA in English in 1972, she moved to New York City at age 20, where she painted. While working as a secretary at the New York University Law School, she enrolled in graduate school and began writing about experimental theater. [5] [6] [7]

Career

After observing Théâtre du Soleil and other political theater companies in France in 1974, she started creating performance pieces and directing. Her early works were "talking dances." She completed a PhD in Performance Studies in 1980. [7] [6]

From 1993 to 2000, she was a member playwright at New Dramatists. [6] In 1995, she spent time in Canada through an NEA artist's residency grant. In 2013, she taught in Japan as part of a Fulbright grant. Champagne is a professor emerita in theater and performance at Purchase College, SUNY, where she began teaching in 1999. [8]

Champagne frequently collaborates with sculptors, media artists and installation artists. Her live performances can be seen in galleries and arts spaces such as Franklin Furnace, the New Museum, and Creative Time's Art on the Beach. She also co-created an installation for the New Museum's Art Mall as Social Space show in 1992. [5]

Works

Champagne is the author of one book and also a number of essays, plays and performance texts.

Plays include:

Awards

Selected awards include:

Personal life

Champagne lives in New York City's West Village with her husband, playwright and director Robert Lyons, and their daughter Amelie. [9]

References

  1. ↑ Rowe, Claudia (13 October 2002). "Performance Art In and Out of the Classroom". The New York Times . Retrieved 2 September 2012.
  2. ↑ Dunning, Jennifer (1 June 2005). "CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK; A Tradition of Dance That Untraditionally Graced the Shores of Manhattan". The New York Times . Retrieved 2 September 2012.
  3. ↑ Anderson, Jack (4 November 1984). "THE STAGE: 'RED LIGHT'". The New York Times . Retrieved 2 September 2012.
  4. ↑ Leja, Lauren, It's Crazy—Troubles of Modern Life at the ICA , retrieved 19 September 2015
  5. 1 2 Lenora Champagne , retrieved 19 September 2015
  6. 1 2 3 Lenora Champagne , retrieved 19 September 2015
  7. 1 2 Champagne, Lenora (1990). Out From Under: Texts by Women Performance Artists. New York, NY: Theatre Communications Group. pp. 155–156. ISBN   9781559360098.
  8. ↑ About , retrieved 19 September 2015
  9. ↑ Tallmer, Jerry (5 August 2010), What did Nostradamus know about Soho's fate?, The Villager, retrieved 19 September 2015
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