Biography of Christopher Bruce

Biography of Christopher Bruce

Christopher Bruce trained at the ballet Rambert School. He joined ballet rambert in 1963.He was an associate director of ballet rambert from 1975-1979 and in 1980 became choreographer. Later on in 2002 he became artistic director. Among all of this he is best known for some of his famous work such as ghost dances, cruel garden, swansong, rooster and etc. He mainly specialises in the dance styles of contemporary and ballet. The main occupations that he associates with are dancer, choreographer and producer of dance productions. He was born on October 3, 1945. He was an lead dancer in modern roles during 1966-1979. In the first ages of its past, the Company performed classical ballet, including the first UK performance of La Sylphide. To show a reflection of change, the name of the company was changed in 1987 to rambert Dance Company. Through his dance works he explores the conflict and reflection through his own concerns and difficult issues such as political issues. Some of the dances explore similar themes such as freedom and human rights. He is extremely known for his great success as a choreographer and also known for his great skills in ballet technique vocabulary and his use of social themes as a source of inspiration within the dance works. His style of movement is expressed very energetically and has that jerky type of feeling. During 1979-87 he has created over 20 works for the company. During later he was a part of London festival ballet(he was the choreographer). He was acknowledged in March 1993 when he received the international theatre institute award for excellence in international dance through the various types of dance works that he produced such as swansong or ghost dances which mainly portray social and political attitudes. He also won a scholarship to the ballet rambert dance school at the age of 13.During his career, he has choreographed for a wide range of productions including musicals, plays for the Royal National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company also which went out to television and various other network distributing of his work. Most of his dance work was based on contemporary dance. For example, through the dance rooster it featured many dance aspects of the dance contemporary through different types of movement and the consistent type of leg extensions and arm extensions while this dance gives a 60s vibe to it. Each of his dance works that he has created gives a different type of aspect through the social and political views based upon stereotypes of men and women. Of how that men are more dominant than women. At edinburgh international festival 2013 the company performed the shift dance movements of christopher bruce along side 16 other works as well. Also, he was increasingly in demand internationally as a choreographer as a choreographer,associate choreographer for rambert. The use of human rights themes have proven him with a strong source of inspiration. He wants his indigenous dance movements to give and show a meaning and to also represents many problems and situations that are happening on a regular basis which effect ordinary people.