Full Name Adele Hankey Notable work A Humanitarian Past | Nationality Swedish and British | |
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Born July 31, 1933 (age 83) ( 1933-07-31 ) Books A Humanitarian Past: Antiquity's Impact on Present Social Conditions | ||
A humanitarian past by adele ngg rd
Adele Änggård (born Adele Hankey, 31 July 1933) is a British-Swedish stage and costume designer whose career has spanned some of the most significant major stages across Europe and Scandinavia. In parallel she's actively pursused archeology and writing, and in later life contributed new interpretations on early European civilizations.
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- A humanitarian past by adele ngg rd
- Background and education
- Career
- Prominent opera productions
- Prominent ballet productions
- Prominent theatrical productions
- Film production
- Archaeology
- References
A humanitarian past by adele ngg rd
Background and education
From 1948 to 1953 she studied ballet at the Elmhurst Ballet School with a focus on art and design, as well as theatre at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. From 1960 to 1963 she took a series of design courses under Paul Colin, and studied art at the Académie Julian and with André Lhote at his studio. In 1972 she studied television and film at the College of San Mateo.
Career
Adele Änggård has had a long and prolific career in theatre, contributing to some 80 productions between 1957 and 2000. Her designs were often noted for an essential simplicity, which integrated the visual part of a performance with the drama and acting as a whole.
Prominent opera productions
Prominent ballet productions
Prominent theatrical productions
Film production
Archaeology
In parallel to her theatre career she developed a lifetime interest in ancient Greece and archaeology, starting in childhood with archaeologist Vronwy Hankey, a Minoan and Mycenae specialist and included visits to the caves of Altamira and Lascaux. Later, as an extension of her theatrical career – so as to better understand Greek play scripts – she studied archaeology at Södertörn University, receiving a bachelor's degree.
Following extensive research, she published A Humanitarian Past in 2016. The book adds a sophisticated social dimension to early European history, and challenges modern conceptualizations of the earliest European ancestors as being underdeveloped and prehistoric art as primitive.