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Art Bauman
(ca 1940 - January 27, 1993) USA

Art Bauman

Dancer, choreographer

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Art Bauman was born in Philadelphia. He was trained in dance at George Washington University in Washington, the Juilliard School, the Metropolitan Opera Ballet School and Martha Graham's studio. He also studied acting at the Herbert Berghof Studio and film at New York University.

Art Bauman created many of his early dances for Dance Theater Workshop, an informal loft theater when he founded it in 1965 with Jeff Duncan and Jack Moore, both of whom have since died. The organization, which he helped to direct until 1975, later became one of the city's major dance institutions.

Art began choreographing in 1962 and became known for painstakingly planned mixed-media collagist dances that were often designed to be performed in specific theater spaces. In addition to the workshop, Art Bauman created pieces for Clark Center for the Performing Arts, the Columbia Arts Festival, Dance Uptown and the Cubiculo. His work was also presented at The Place in London and the New York Dance Festival in Central Park. His best-known dance was "Dialog," a solo in which the choreographer, live and on film, portrayed a businessman racing against time and corporate pressures.

He gradually gave up performing to concentrate on choreography. Throughout his career he also held administrative jobs in dance. He taught choreography at the workshop, Barnard College, New York University School of the Arts, the American Dance Festival at Connecticut College, the Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival and other institutions in the United States and Europe. He also worked as a stage manager at York City theaters including the Kaufmann Concert Hall, the Juilliard Opera Theater and the Lincoln Center Institute. He retired from dance in 1979.

He died of AIDS-related complications, at Tisch Hospital in Manhattan. He was 53 and lived in Manhattan, said William Singer, his companion.

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