Further Reading and Resources
Available Online
Michael Clark
Artforum September 2008: Extensive consideration of Michael Clark’s work from the perspective of artists, collaborators and art curators
TimeOut Heroes Time Out 18.09.08
I didn’t get where I am today... The Times 20.10.07
My London Evening Standard 25.10.01
Stravinsky Project
Michael Clark discusses the Stravinsky Project, in conversation with the artist Elizabeth Peyton.
Even lavatories can dance The Observer 11.11.07
Michael Clark Company The Times 6.11.07
Michael Clark: The man who put the punk into modern dance is now choreographing Stravinsky The Independent 13.10.07
Mmm...
Dance: Things that make you go Mmm... The Sunday Times 05.11.06
Michael Clark Company The Times 01.11.06
When Mr Blobby dallies with Hitler The Observer 05.11.05
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Michael Clark The Guardian 03.11.05
Michael Clark The Times 03.11.05
Punk, disorderly, but still on his feet 31.10.05
Apollo of the north The Guardian 15.10.05
nevertheless, caviar
The master at play The Metro 19.02.04
OH MY GODDESS
The enfant terrible of dance finally grows up The Sunday Times 29.02.04
Michael Clark The Times 03.10.03
Would, Should, Can, Did
Michael Clark The Guardian 28.04.03
My past is kind of obscene The Guardian 22.04.03
Deviancy becomes him The Observer 04.05.03
Before and After: The Fall
The Rhythm Method The Guardian 24.10.01
Ballets bad boy is back Evening Standard 16.10.01
The Late Michael Clark
Direct and to the point The Guardian 23.02.00
Film/ Recordings
Because we must, directed by Charles Atlas, (London: Best Endeavours for Channel 4, 1989).
Held at Roehampton University Library, available for purchase at Electronic Arts Intermix
Hail the new puritan, directed by Charles Atlas, (London; Channel 4 & Boston: New Television Workshop, 1987).
Available for purchase at Electronic Arts Intermix
Prospero’s books, written and directed by Peter Greenaway based on the play "The Tempest" by William Shakespeare. (Allarts/Cinea/Camera One/Penta, 1991.)
The late Michael Clark, produced & directed by Sophie Fiennes. (London: Illuminations Productions/ BBC, 2000).
Held at Roehampton University Library, Goldsmiths - University of London, LABAN, and the National Resource Centre for Dance.
Other recommended reading
Books
Bremser, Martha, Fifty Contemporary Choreographers: A Reference Guide, (London: Routledge, 1996).
Burrows, Jonathan, Conversations With Choreographers, (London: Royal Festival Hall, 1998).
Mackrell, Judith, Out of Line: the story of British New Dance, (London: Dance Books, 1992).
Interviews
Barber, Lynn, ‘Good Boy Now’, Independent on Sunday, 7 June 1997
Cunningham, Merce, ‘Dance: Pas de Deux’, Tate: Arts and Culture, Issue 8, Nov/ Dec 2003
De Marigny ,Chris, ‘Hail, the Video Dance Maker’, Dance Theatre Journal, Summer 1986
Graw, Isabelle, ‘Tanzen Bis Zum Umfallen’ Texte Zur Kunst September 2000
Hilty, Greg, ‘A thousand words: Michael Clark talks about Before and After: The Fall’, Artforum International, October 2001
Hutera, Donald in ‘The Comeback King’, On Tour UK Drama and Dance, British Council 2006
Macaulay, Alastair, ‘Michael Clark Talks!’, Dance Theatre Journal, Autumn 1984
Mackrell, Judith, ‘Michael Clark in focus’, Dance Theatre Journal, Vol. 14, No.3, 1998
Newman, Barbara, ‘A young god returns in triumph’ The Telegraph 29 October 2005
Orr, Deborah ‘The one that got away’, The Independent Magazine, 13 October 2007
Watts, D ‘An Impure Queer in a Dickhead World’, City Life, April 1994
Articles
Bishop, Clifford, ‘Michael Clark’, Opera House, 3 August 1994
Brown, Ismene, ‘IgorFest’ in Dance Now Winter 2006/07
Burnside, Fiona, ‘Michael Clark’s O’, Dance Theatre Journal, Autumn 1994
Cleave, Maureen, ‘Leading Them a Dance’, Observer Magazine, 18 May 1986
Cotter, Suzanne, ‘Cross Over’, in Afterall: A Journal of Art, Context & Enquiry, Issue 9 2004
Cruikshank, Judith, ‘Michael Clark, Riverside Studios’, Dance and Dancers, November 1985
Debray, Catherine, ‘Michel ange et démon’, Danser, February 1987
Finkel, Anita ‘Trying the Tempest, New Dance Review, October/November 1991
Glasstone, Richard, ‘Michael Clark’s Use of Ballet Technique’, Dance Now, Winter 1994
Glasstone, Richard, ‘Taramasalata and pitta’, in, Dance Now, Vol. 8, No.1, Spring 1999
Hughes, David, ‘Michael Clark’s Mmm ... ‘, Dance Theatre Journal, Autumn 1992
Macaulay, Alastair, ‘One at a Time’, Dance Theatre Journal, Spring 1983
Macaulay, Alastair, ‘Down at the Riverside’, Dancing Times, October 1983
Macaulay, Alastair, ‘Michael Clark: The Angry Young Man with the Disposable Hair’, Dance Magazine, October 1986
Macaulay, Alastair, ‘The Addict of Camp: Michael Clark, Because We Must’, Dancing Times, February 1988
Macaulay, Alastair, ‘Clarksville’, Dancing Times, November 1986
Mackrell, Judith, ‘Post-modern Dance in Britain’, Dance Research, Spring 1991
Meisner, Nadine, ‘Michael Clark and Company’, Dance and Dancers, September 1984
Nugent, Ann, ‘Dream Ticket’, Dance Now, Summer 1994
Parry, Jann ‘Mmm... Michael Clark’, Dance Now, Summer 1992
Parry, Jann ‘Rites and Wrongs of an Outrageous Dancer’, Observer Review, 15 May 1994
Pearson, Nicola, ‘Always Welcome Back: The enigmatic Michael Clark’, in Dance Now, Vol. 14, No. 4, Winter 2005/06
Savage-King, Chris, ‘Maverick Makes Good’, Dance Theatre Journal, Winter 1984
Savage-King, Chris, ‘Back to the Sixties with Michael Clark’, Dance Theatre Journal, Winter 1985
Watts, Sally, ‘New British Dance’, Dancing Times, May 1984
Wood, Catherine, ‘Let me entertain You’, in Afterall: A Journal of Art, Context & Enquiry, Issue 9 2004
