...FROM THE HORSE'S MOUTH
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James Cunningham, a native of Toronto with honors degrees (BA and MA) in English Literature and Drama from the University of Toronto, has studied and performed as both an actor and dancer. He studied acting, voice (under Iris Warren), dance an directing at the London Academy of Dramatic Arts, as well as Yoga, Tai Chi and dance in New York. His choreography credits include, Twelfth Night and Don Giovanni at the Stratford (Ontario) Shakespeare Festival, Lorca’s Yerma for Canadian television, and over two dozen of his own works. He has created pieces for performance spaces ranging from proscenium theatres to swimming pools to the Mall in Washington DC to the steps of the US Treasury Building on Wall Street. Introducing elements of acting, singing and music, as well as dance, several of these pieces have been designed for performance by the Company with up to 150 volunteers, dancers and non-dancers alike. In 1980, Mr. Cunningham directed and choreographed the Opera St. Louis production of Brecht-Weill’s The Seven Deadly Sins, featuring his Company members. He has received grants
from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the
Arts, The creative Artists Public Service Program, the John Simon Guggenheim
Memorial Foundation and the American Dance Festival. He has been a member of the faculty of the Pratt Institute for
the past 19 years and is currently on the Faculty of the Professional Theatre
Training Program of the University of Delaware where he teaches acting,
directing, voice and movement to graduate and undergraduate theatre
students. During the 1980’s he directed productions of
As You Like It, Private Lives, The 3 Penny Opera and What the Butler
Saw, as well as the North American preview of the award-winning English
play The Harlot’s Curse. |
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