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Name
  
Karine Saporta

Role
  
Choreographer

Movies
  
La Brulure


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Karine Saporta (b. Grenoble, Isère, 1950) is a French choreographer, dancer, photographer, and short film director. She is one of the most prominent figures in French dance.

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Saporta was born in France to a mother of Russian ancestry and a Spanish father. She began dancing at the age of five, studying ballet at first, and attending the National Conservatory. She graduated with a degree in philosophy and a master's degree in sociology from the University of Paris, then traveled to the United States to study choreography and movement composition.

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She founded the Compagnie Karine Saporta in order to redefine contemporary modern dance. Her choreography is influenced by Indian dance and urban/hip hop dance as well as other dance forms from around the world. She is also interested in improvisation.

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She is a professor at the Art and Music Department of the University of Evry, president of the Dance Commission, vice-president of the Society of Dramatic Authors and Composers in France (SACD), and artistic director of choreographic performances at the Festival d'Avignon.

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She became Director of the Centre Choreographic National (CCN) of Caen/Basse-Normandie in 1989. She choreographed the dances in the 1991 Peter Greenaway film Prospero's Books. She has also choreographed to music by Michael Nyman in her opera-ballet La Princesse de Milan.

She is a Chevalier of the Légion d’Honneur.

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References

Karine Saporta Wikipedia


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