Adam Darius
Adam Darius was an American dancer, mime artist, playwright, and choreographer who lived from May 10, 1930, to December 3, 2017. He performed in over 86 countries on six continents as a performer. He wrote 22 plays and published 19 books as a writer. The BBC World Service recognized him as "one of the most remarkable talents of the twentieth century" in a show devoted to his career. At the age of 14, Adam Darius began his ballet and modern dance instruction, and went on to study with Anatole Oboukhov, George Goncharov, Olga Preobrajenska, and José Limón, among others.
His professional career began in 1946 with performances at New York's Metropolitan Opera House, and he went on to perform with a number of ballet companies, including the International Ballet of the United Kingdom (1953), the Royal Winnipeg Ballet of Canada (1954), and the Scandinavian Ballet of Denmark (1955). (1962). He was also the choreographer for the Israel National Opera from 1963 to 1964, where he choreographed four operas for Plácido Domingo (Don Giovanni, Carmen, La Traviata, and The Pearl Fishers, all of which premiered in Tel-Aviv in 1963). Adam Darius was the director of his own company, the Israeli Ballet, from 1964 until 1966.
In 1967, Adam Darius defied convention by presenting his unique mix of dance and mime, dubbed "expressive mime," at the Spoleto Festival in Italy and the Arts Lab in London. He traveled numerous nations in the years after, including South Africa (1970), the Soviet Union (1971), the Philippines, Papua New Guinea, and Australia (1971), Syria, Iran, and Afghanistan (1976), Japan (1984), and Greenland (1985). (1998). In conjunction with Kazimir Kolesnik, Adam Darius' notion of physical theatre was realized in London productions of Yukio Mishima (1991), Rimbaud and Verlaine (1992), and Tower of Babel (1993).
- Born: 10 May 1930
- Died: 3 December 2017
- Known for: dancer, mime artist, writer and choreographer
