Education Juilliard School | ||
Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, Latin America & Caribbean | ||
Noemi Lapzeon (born 28 June 1940 in Buenos Aires) is a dancer, choreographer and Argentine educator. She received a Guggenheim Fellowship for the field of choreography in 1999. Lapzeon is the first recipient of the Swiss Prize for Dance in 2002.
Life
Lapzeon as a child began to study the dance method of Jacques Dalcroze (1865-1950). When she was 14 her mother brought her to study with Ana Itelman. She won a scholarship from the Juilliard School. There she studied classical dance, but she returned to contemporary dance in order to study under American teacher Martha Graham (1894-1991). By the age of 19 she danced and was a teacher at Graham's dance company in New York. Lapzeon helped to create the London Contemporary Dance School in 1968. She has lived in Geneva since 1980, and still teaches students there.