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Armitage Gone! Dance is the creative venture of Karole Armitage. It?s all started when Ms. Armitage decided to leave George Balanchine's famous Geneva Ballet in 1976 and then joined then another famous dance company "Merce Cunningham Dance Company." During the 1980, Karole came out with this beautiful idea of Armitage Gone and then she diligently founded Armitage Gone, Her own dance company. Since then, she has been achieving the new heights of fame with her unique combinations and innovative steps. Her specialized dance forms combine yoga, ballet, Bhartnatyam, improve, voguering and famous Indian dance style. Her incredible dance steps are also inspired from the South Central Los Angeles popular street dance and known as Krumping and calligraphy.

Karole has also contributed for her sizzling concoction of rock-punk culture that was on the rise during the 1980's. This unique dance group is also very well adept at using the tough shapes of some Chinese characters as well as the Khmer and Arabic alphabets to create unbelievable sinuous, meandering movements which are equally blended with the incredible unbridled force of Krumping that creates magic. The most part of the incredible Ms Armitage is very well presented to captivate someone. The well-trained performers and muscular bodies of the dancers from her consistent company seem to really enhance and explore the very act of superior moving as their limbs unfold and moves in a specific way and reach out into space and amazingly torsos slowly with the tilt off the axis of gravity leaving them in unexpected places. The quality of excellent discovery is very well enhanced by the dream world like space, excellently lit by Clifton Taylor. The bead curtain is very well designed by the famous designer David Salle and aesthetically hung along three sides of the stage. The superb lighting gives silvery, white landscape those are very well used to introduce the dark-skinned, petite body of sizzling Sharmila Desai, followed by the mind-blowing flamboyant presences of Aviance Milan, Mecca and Bendeleon.

Ms. Armitage is also popular as "the punk ballerina" because, during the early years of her company, she became a sort of symbol of the use of loud music and hugely popular aspects of popular culture that is not usually associated with well known 'serious' dance forms like modern dance and ballet. Ms. Armitage is also appeared on rock videos with famous stars Michael Jackson and Madonna; she was involved in superb voguing, a tough dance form named for its simple reference to the flourishes of modern fashion models on a catwalk and also associated with African-American drag queens and Latino. Ms. Armitage's famous collaborators include famous visual artists like fashion designers Jean-Paul Gaultier and Jeff Coons. Her dual aspect of Armitage Gone! Dance is very well reflected in time. According to some acclaimed dance critics - her incredible choreography is firmly based in formal roots and her dance forms are amazingly fascinated with some of the best movements that can go beyond the normal dance. Her famous and hugely acclaimed juxtapositions serve to simply highlight her own aesthetic idiom of western 'art dance' which gain an amazing extra dimension; with these contrasting ways of moving it seems as if she is equally comfortable with 'kosher' dance forms and also with eastern movement traditions.

Armitage has received a prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship in choreography. She has been also awarded with the hugely prestigious Chevalier dans L 'ordre des Arts ET Lettres. She has also choreographed for the American Ballet Theater and Paris Opera Ballet. She has also served as the proud director of MaggioDanza di Firenze; the reputed Ballet Company in Italy from 1995-1998. Her ambitious projects include the thorough creative remake of "Drastic-Classicism." Her famous punk classic "Sonata de Caccia" from the late 70s' "Rave" was able to draw a huge acclaim for the Cannes Dance Festival. Her incredible choreography is also showcased in the famous "The Golden Bowl," produced by the Merchant and Ivory production. There are two well projected documentaries made of Ms. Armitage's choreography. These choreographies are made for television that includes "Wild Ballerina" in 1998 and "The South Bank Show" in 1985. The new world premiere of "In This Dream That Dogs Me," in the new season of 2005-2006 has already received many encouraging reviews from the many known dance critics and the show would be an undisputed sell out.