Dianne McIntyre

Selected Choreography / dance - theatre - film

 

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Selected Choreography
dance - theatre - film

 
 

CONCERT DANCE CHOREOGRAPHY

 
    2009   If you don't know...
  • McIntyre solo for Fly: Five First Ladies of Dance
  • 651 Arts Brooklyn,
  • Premiere May 30, 2009
    2008 Club!
  • Music live - JJ Kaufman, Greg Ketchum, Khalid Saleem
  • College at Brockport SUNY students
    2006   Lyric Fire
  • Dayton Contemporary Dance Company
    1999   Invincible Flower
  • Music - Lester Bowie (1998-99)
  • Premiere - Jacobs Pillow, Walker Arts Center
    1997   A Brand New People on the Planet
  • Music - Olu Dara
  • Premiere - New York City - Aaron Davis Hall
    1992   Love Poems to God
  • Music and poetry - Hannibal Lokumbe
  • Premiere - 8 June, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York City
    1991   How Long Brethren?
  • Original choreography by Helen Tamiris (1937)
  • Re-created by McIntyre for Federal Theater Festival
  • Music - Amina Claudine Myers
  • Premiere - May, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA
    1988   The Coming of Eagles
  • Vocal accompaniment - Gwendolyn Nelson-Fleming and Avery Brooks
  • Premiere - Harlem Urban Development Council
    1987   Gratitude
  • Music - Don Pullen
  • Premiere - New York City Hospital Authority
    1986   Their Eyes Were Watching God (A Dance Adventure in Southern Blues)
  • Music - Olu Dara and Lawrence D. (Butch) Morris
  • Premiere - 25 June, j.a.m., New York City
    1984   Mississippi Talks, Ohio Walks
  • Music - Olu Dara
  • Premiere - August, Damrosch Park, Lincoln Center, New York City

  • Take-Off From a Forced Landing
  • Music - Lawrence D. (Butch) Morris and Nat King Cole
  • Premiere - 19 June, Joyce Theater, New York City
    1982   Eye of the Crocodile
  • Music - Cecil Taylor
  • Premiere - 27 May, Judson Memorial Church, NewYork City
    1980   Triptych
  • Music - Max Roach
  • Premiere - 13 June, Symphony Space, New York City
    1979   Life's Force
  • Music - Ahmed Abdullah
  • Premiere - Carver Center, San Antonio, TX
    1976   Deep South Suite
  • Music - Duke Ellington
  • Premiere - May, by Alvin Ailey Repertory Company, Theatre of the Riverside Church, New York City

  • The Voyage
  • Music - Traditional slave songs
  • First performed (in-progress) 29 March, La Mama Annex, New York City
    1975   Memories
  • Music - Eubie Blake and Noble Sissle
  • Premiere - January, Henry Street Settlement Playhouse, New York City

  • Shadows
  • Music - Cecil Taylor
  • Premiere - 3 November, Majestic Theatre, New York City
  • (from Tribute to Syvilla Fort)
    1974   Dead Center
  • Music - Hank Johnson
  • Premiere - New Lafayette Theater, New York City

  • Union (Union For the Streets)
  • Music - Steve Solder and Roe Rigby
  • Poetry - Margaret Walker, Langston Hughes
  • Premiere - New Lafayette Theater, New York City
    1972   A Free Thing I
  • Premiere - 27 March, Cubiculo Theatre, New York City

  • Smoke and Clouds
  • Music - Traditional, Shirley and Lee, Huey Smith, and The Jacks
  • Premiere - 27 March, Cubiculo Theatre, New York City
    1971   Melting Song
  • Premiere - 6 June, Clark Center, New York City

FILM CHOREOGRAPHY

    Beloved   Harpo/Disney
  • Directed by Jonathan Demme

TELEVISION CHOREOGRAPHY

    Miss Evers' Boys   HBO 
  • Directed by Joe Sargent
    for colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow was enuf  PBS
  • Directed by Oz Scott
    Langston Hughes: The Dreamkeeper PBS
  • Directed by St. Clair Bourne
    The First Day of School (from Up North, 1881)
    for NBC's Violence in America
    Women of Regent Hotel WNBC
  • Directed by Woodie King, Jr.
 

THEATRE CHOREOGRAPHY

 
   
    Joe Turner's Come and Gone (2009)
  • Written by August Wilson
  • Directed by Barlett Sher
  • Lincoln Center Theater on Broadway/Belasco Theatre
    Crowns (2003-05)
  • Written and directed by Regina Taylor
  • Alliance, Arena Stage, Goodman, Hartford Stage, Dallas Theater Center
  • Directed and choreographed at Cleveland Play House
    Polk County (2002, 04)
  • Written by Zora Neale Hurston
  • Directed by Kyle Donnelly
  • ArenaStage, McCarter Theatre and Berkeley Rep
    King Hedley II (2000-2001)
  • Written by August Wilson
  • Directed by Marion McClinton
  • Huntington, Mark Taper, Goodman, Kennedy Center, and Broadway
    Death and the King's Horseman (1999)
  • Written by Wole Soyinka
  • Directed by Marion McClinton
  • Syracuse Stage
    I Could Stop on a Dime and Get Ten Cents Change (1995-99) 
  • Director and Choreographer, Creator
  • Baltimore, CenterStage; Cleveland Play House, Theater of the First Amendment
    The Darker Face of the Earth (1996)
  • Written by Rita Dove
  • Directed by Rick Khan
  • Crossroads Theatre, NJ and Kennedy Center and Oregon Shakespeare Festival
    In Living Color: A Gullah Story (1993, 94)
  • Directed and Choreographed, and Co-Conceived
  • Written by OyamO, Music by Olu Dara
  • New Dramatists and Theater of the First Amendment
    Mule Bone (1991)
  • Written by Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes
  • Music by Taj Mahal, Directed by Michael Schwarz
  • Produced by Lincoln Center at Broadway’s Barrymore Theatre
    King, The Musical (1990)
  • Music by Richard Blackford, Lyrics by Maya Angelou
  • Written by Ron Milner, Richard Nelson, Lonne Elder III
  • Directed by Graham Vick, Clarke Peters, John Caird
  • Produced in London’s West End, Piccadilly Theatre
    Miss Evers' Boys (1989)
  • Written by David Feldshuh
  • Produced at Center Stage and Mark Taper Forum
  • Directed by Irene Lewis
    80 Days (1988)
  • Written by Snoo Wilson
  • LaJolla Playhouse, CA
  • Music by Ray Davies
  • Directed by Des McAnuff
    Black Girl (1986)
  • Written by j.e.Franklin
  • Directed by Glenda Dickerson
  • Second Stage, New York City
    Shout Up a Morning (1986)
  • Directed by Des McAnuff,
  • Music by Nat and Cannonball Adderley, Lyrics by Diane Lampert
  • Produced at La Jolla Playhouse, La Jolla, CA
    Paul Robeson (1981 and more)
  • Written by Phillip Hayes Dean
  • Directed by Hal Scott
  • Produced at Crossroads Theatre, national theatres and on Broadway
  • Avery Brooks as Paul Robeson
    Boogie Woogie Landscapes (1980)
  • Written by Ntozake Shange
  • Directed by Avery Brooks
  • Kennedy Center, Washington, DC
    Be-Bop (1979)
  • Original music from bebop era by Dizzy Gillespie, John Hendricks, Charlie Parker and others
  • Produced at Wonderhorse Theatre, Off-Broadway, NYC
    Spell #7 (1979)
  • Written by Ntozake Shange
  • Directed by Oz Scott
  • Music by Lawrence (Butch) Morris and David Murray
  • NY Public Theater, Joseph Papp, Producer
    The Great MacDaddy (1974 and 1977)
  • Written by Paul Carter Harrison
  • Directed by Douglas Turner Ward
  • Music by Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson
  • Produced by The Negro Ensemble Company, Off-Broadway

THEATRE and TELEVISION AWARDS

    Emmy Award Nomination for Choreography, Miss Evers' Boys

    AUDELCO Award for Choreography, Spell #7

    AUDELCO Special Recognition Award

    Helen Hayes Award for Choreography, In Living Color: A Gullah Story

    Helen Hayes Nominations for Choreography
  • - I Could Stop on a Dime and Get Ten Cents Change
  • - Crowns
    Helen Hayes nomination Charles MacArthur Award for Best New Play
  • - I Could Stop on a Dime and Get Ten Cents Change
  • - Open the Door, Virginia!
WOODIE Award for Lifetime Achievement from St. Louis Black Rep