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Article: Taming the gypsy in her soul: still a rebel, Karole Armitage pushes the boundaries of classicism as she builds her company in NYC.(Armitage Gone! Dance in Time )(Biography)
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- Dance Magazine
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- February 1, 2007
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Growing up in Lawrence, Kansas, Karole Armitage traveled great distances to take ballet. Her mother drove miles to get her to class with Tomi Worthan, who'd danced with the New York City Ballet. In the summer, when her biologist father headed for the Colorado wilderness to pursue his research, she hiked over a mountain pass to Aspen, where she studied at the school of Ballet West.
Trained at the School of American Ballet and the North Carolina School of the Arts, she had a dance career that veered from the neoclassicism of Balanchine at the Geneva Ballet to years in the postmodern cathedral of Merce Cunningham. Beginning to choreograph in 1978, she made headlines ...