Draft:Jim May (dancer)
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Jim May (James A. May) is a dancer.[1][2]
Dancing career[edit]
He has danced with Anna Sokolow's company Player's Project for 35 years, for much of this time he co-directed the company. He also danced with the Limón Company (under Jose Limón) and as a soloist (under Carla Maxwell). He danced with the Ruth Currier Company, and as a principal dancer with the Danny Lewis company. Other appearances included dancing on broadway and as a member of the Eliot Feld Ballet Company. Guest artist roles include work by Donald McKayle, Don Redlich, Murray Louis, Pauline Koner, and Kurt Jooss.
Performance[edit]
After Anna Sokolow's death, Jim May founded the Sokolow Theater Dance Ensemble.[2]
Teaching[edit]
Mr. May has taught on the faculties of SUNY Purchase, Juilliard School of Music, and Princeton University, and the Limón Institute. He founded the company Dance Forum Taipei in Taiwan and taught in Mexico at Central de Investigacion Corografica.[2]
Choreography[edit]
Passage (Death) and Remember (Subconscious) based on Rodin sculpture "The Shades" premiered in 2020.[3]
Awards[edit]
In 1996 Jim won a 1996 Fulbright Scholarship to Mexico City where he studied the roles played by Anna Sokolow and Jose Limon, in the relationship between modern dance in the US and Mexico.[4]
Mr. May received the 1999 Bessie Award for lifetime achievement, “for a sustained achievement over decades as dance’s premiere leading man, an actor-dancer of extraordinary range and scope of character, in the living theater of Anna Sokolow.”[5]
References[edit]
- ^ "Jim May: A Beautiful Friendship with Philadelphia | Lynn Matluck Brooks | thINKingDANCE". thinkingdance.net. Retrieved 2024-01-13.
- ^ a b c "Bios | SOKOLOW THEATRE/DANCE ENSEMBLE". Retrieved 2024-01-13.
- ^ "Casual Fifth - Fringe 2020". www.casualfifth.com. Retrieved 2024-01-13.
- ^ "More Than 800 Scholars Get Fulbright Awards for 1995-96". The Chronicle of Higher Education. January 19, 1996. Retrieved January 13, 2024.
- ^ "TESTING NEW TABLE – The Bessies". Retrieved 2024-01-13.