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Returning to Toronto in 1968, Mr. Earle
co-founded Toronto Dance Theatre with Patricia Beatty and Peter Randazzo.
He was appointed sole artistic director in
1987, taking the company to its first two triumphant seasons in New York
and tours in Europe and Asia. In his 30 years as a choreographer, Mr.
Earle has created over 100 works including Sacra Conversazione,
Baroque Suite, Atlantis, Boat River Moon, Dreamsend and Court of
Miracles; a full evening work created in collaboration with James
Kudelka, with whom Mr. Earle also choreographed Dido and Aeneas
for the Stratford Music Festival; and Scheherazade for Les Grands
Ballets Canadiens. Court of Miracles had ten Christmas seasons in
Toronto and toured Canada and the USA. His independent choreographic works
include: Orpheus and Eurydice directed by Bill Glassco for the
Guelph Spring Realm commissioned by Erik Bruhn for the National
Ballet of Cape Eternity for the opening of the Toronto
International Festival, and Sacra Conversazione and Cloud
Garden for the Banff Festival of the Arts.
For Ballet British Columbia he created Architecture
for the Poor, and for the Polish Dance Theatre Angels and
Victories for the World Music Days Festival in Warsaw and the 1992
Edinburgh Festival. Mr. Earle originated the School of Toronto Dance
Theatres Professional Training Program in 1979, and has taught at the
University of Quebec in Montreal, LÉcole Supérieure de Danse du Qué for
the World Music Days Festival in Warsaw and the 1992 Edinburgh Festival.
Mr. Earle originated the School of Toronto Dance Theatres Professional
Training Program in 1979, and has taught at the University of Quebec in
Montreal, LÉcole Supérieure de Danse du Québec, Southern Methodist
University Dance for Modern Times and The Dancemakers.
For Rhombus Media, he choreographed La Valse for a film on the
life of Maurice Ravel, and Romeos and Juliet's, which received
the Press Award from Frances Grand Prix International de Video-Danse de
Sete and also a Gemini award.
In 1987, he received both the Clifford E.
Lee Choreography Award from The Banff Centre of the Arts and the Dora
Mavor Moore Award for best new choreography for Sunrise. In 1988,
along with Toronto Dance Theatre co-founders Peter Randazzo and Patricia
Beatty, he received the Toronto Arts Award for Performing Arts. In May
1994, Mr. Earle received the Jean A. Chalmers Award for Distinction in
Choreography. Mr. Earle left the Toronto Dance Theatre in December 1996 to
pursue an independent career. He launched Dancetheatre David Earle to
support continuing creation, for the preservation of his repertoire, and
to serve as a forum for younger artists whose concern is the expression of
humanity in dance.
"The Clifford E Lee Choreography Award
is, to my knowledge, the only private grant given to Canadian
choreographers for the creation of new works. It has brought both
experienced and emerging creators to the peace and natural beauty of
this mountain setting, and given them the gift of time, space, and
highly evolved dance artists, to facilitate the process of making the
invisible among the finest in the country, and a knowledgeable and
appreciative public.
There is no
comparable opportunity, and with the addition of admired
artists in other art forms creating a community, each one
of us who have received all of this from the foundation
cannot express visible. It also provides technical
support of the highest calibre, performance facilities
that are passionately enough our lasting
gratitude."
— David Earle  Return to the
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