Michael Parmenter

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Michael Earl Parmenter MNZM (born 1954) is a New Zealand choreographer and dancer of contemporary dance.

Career[]

Parmenter studied dance in the 1980s in New York and was influenced by both New York-based choreographer Erick Hawkins and Japanese Butoh master Min Tanaka.[1] He formed the dance company Commotion in 1990 with notable works including the dance opera Jerusalem.[2]

Recent work includes dance opera OrphEus which premiered at the 2018 Auckland Arts Festival.[3] Parmenter openly talks about his homosexuality and living with HIV[4] including in autobiographic show The Long Undressing.[5] He has taught at the New Zealand School of Dance and UNITEC. He has choreographed for , the Royal New Zealand Ballet and the New Zealand Dance Company amongst others.[6]

Reporter Simon Wilson recounting a significant moment in the arts for him about a Parmenter performance:

I remember Parmenter telling his life story, the boy from Southland, born in the 1950s, gay in a conservative Christian family, how he got from there to dance, and then to a show based not on choreography but on words, although there was some very lovely dance in it too. That was A Long Undressing.[5]

In the 1998 Queen's Birthday Honours, Parmenter was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to the performing arts,[7] and he received an Arts Foundation Laureate Award in 2010.[8][9][10]

References[]

  1. ^ Schultz, Marianne (22 October 2014). "New companies and international work, 1990s to 2000s". Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand. New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage Te Manatu. Retrieved 2 July 2020.
  2. ^ "New sentence follows dance star's full stop". NZ Herald (in en-NZ). 30 June 2000. ISSN 1170-0777. Retrieved 2 July 2020.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)
  3. ^ Alexander, Mike (9 February 2018). "The Questionnaire: Michael Parmenter". Stuff. Retrieved 2 July 2020.
  4. ^ Screen, NZ On. "For Arts Sake - Michael Parmenter | Television | NZ On Screen". www.nzonscreen.com. Retrieved 2 July 2020.
  5. ^ a b Wilson, Simon (27 February 2018). "Three men, three shows: Joy and heartache from start to Finn". NZ Herald (in en-NZ). ISSN 1170-0777. Retrieved 2 July 2020.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)
  6. ^ "Michael Parmenter". nzdc.org.nz (in en-NZ). 19 September 2018. Retrieved 2 July 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)
  7. ^ "Queen's Birthday honours list 1998". Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. 1 June 1998. Retrieved 5 July 2020.
  8. ^ "Michael Parmenter | Arts Foundation Laureate". Arts Foundation. Retrieved 2 July 2020.
  9. ^ "Michael Parmenter - QueerBio.com". queerbio.com. Retrieved 2 July 2020.
  10. ^ Smith, Jo (2006). Gerstner, David A. (ed.). Routledge international encyclopedia of queer culture. London: Routledge. p. 449. ISBN 978-0-415-30651-5. OCLC 62475216.
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