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Carmen de Lavallade est une Actrice Américaine née le 6 mars 1931 à Los Angeles (Etats-Unis)

Carmen de Lavallade

Carmen de Lavallade
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Nationalité Etats-Unis
Naissance 6 mars 1931 (93 ans) à Los Angeles (Etats-Unis)

Carmen de Lavallade (born March 6, 1931) is an American actress, dancer and choreographer.

Biographie

Early years
Carmen de Lavallade was born in Los Angeles, California, on March 6, 1931, to Creole parents from New Orleans, Louisiana. She was raised by her aunt, Adele, who owned one of the first African-American history bookshops on Central Avenue. De Lavallade's cousin, Janet Collins, was the first African-American prima ballerina at the Metropolitan Opera.

De Lavallade began studying ballet with Melissa Blake at the age of 16. After graduation from Thomas Jefferson High School in Los Angeles was awarded a scholarship to study dance with Lester Horton.


Career
De Lavallade became a member of the Lester Horton Dance Theater in 1949 where she danced as a lead dancer until her departure for New York City with Alvin Ailey in 1954. Like all of Horton's students, de Lavallade studied other art forms, including painting, acting, music, set design and costuming, as well as ballet and other forms of modern and ethnic dance. She studied dancing with ballerina Carmelita Maracci and acting with Stella Adler. In 1954, de Lavallade made her Broadway debut partnered with Alvin Ailey in Truman Capote's musical House of Flowers (starring Pearl Bailey).

In 1955, she married dancer/actor Geoffrey Holder, whom she had met while working on House of Flowers. It was with Holder that de Lavallade choreographed her signature solo Come Sunday, to a black spiritual sung by Odetta (then known as Odetta Gordon). The following year, de Lavallade danced as the prima ballerina in Samson and Delilah, and Aida at the Metropolitan Opera.

She made her television debut in John Butler's ballet Flight, and in 1957 she appeared in the television production of Duke Ellington's A Drum Is a Woman. She appeared in several off-Broadway productions, including Othello and Death of a Salesman. An introduction to 20th Century Fox executives by Lena Horne led to more acting roles between 1952 and 1955. She appeared in several films, including Carmen Jones (1954) with Dorothy Dandridge and Odds Against Tomorrow (1959) with Harry Belafonte.

De Lavallade was a principal guest performer with the Alvin Ailey Dance Company on the company's tour of Asia and in some countries the company was billed as de Lavallade-Ailey American Dance Company. Other performances included dancing with Donald McKayle and appearing in Agnes de Mille's American Ballet Theatre productions of The Four Marys and The Frail Quarry in 1965. She joined the Yale School of Drama as a choreographer and performer-in-residence in 1970. She staged musicals, plays and operas, and eventually became a professor and member of the Yale Repertory Theater. Between 1990 and 1993, de Lavallade returned to the Metropolitan Opera as choreographer for Porgy and Bess and Die Meistersinger.

In 2003, de Lavallade appeared in the rotating cast of the off-Broadway staged reading of Wit & Wisdom. In 2010, she appeared in a one-night-only concert semi-staged reading of Evening Primrose by Stephen Sondheim.


Personal life
De Lavallade had resided in New York City with her husband Geoffrey Holder until his death on October 5, 2014. Their lives were the subject of the 2005 Linda Atkinson and Nick Doob documentary Carmen and Geoffrey. The couple had one son, Léo. De Lavallade's brother-in-law was Boscoe Holder.

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Filmographie de Carmen de Lavallade (4 films)

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The Hours
The Hours (2002)
, 1h54
Réalisé par Stephen Daldry
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Drame
Thèmes Film sur un écrivain, La famille, Féminisme, Maladie, Sexualité, Le suicide, Homosexualité, Folie, Politique, LGBT, Sida et LGBT, Sida, LGBT, Lesbianisme
Acteurs Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore, Nicole Kidman, Ed Harris, John C. Reilly, Lyndsey Marshal
Note74% 3.7487753.7487753.7487753.7487753.748775
The Hours raconte une journée cruciale des vies respectives de trois femmes de différentes époques, dont les destins sont interconnectés par le roman de Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway.
Drôle de père, 1h33
Réalisé par Dennis Dugan
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Drame, Comédie
Thèmes L'adoption, L'enfance, La famille
Acteurs Adam Sandler, Dylan Sprouse, Joey Lauren Adams, Jon Stewart, Rob Schneider, Cole Sprouse
Note64% 3.200643.200643.200643.200643.20064
À son grand étonnement, Sonny Koufax (Adam Sandler) reçoit chez lui Julian (Dylan et Cole Sprouse), un enfant de 5 ans. Il lit la lettre jointe qui l'accompagne et apprend que c'est l'enfant d'un ami qui se trouve en Chine pour affaires. Sonny décide de se faire passer pour le père, dans le but d'impressionner sa petite amie avec qui il a des problèmes...
Le Coup de l'escalier, 1h36
Réalisé par Robert Wise
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Drame, Thriller, Action, Noir, Policier
Thèmes Le racisme, Hold up, Gangsters, Escroquerie
Acteurs Robert Ryan, Ed Begley, Harry Belafonte, Gloria Grahame, Shelley Winters, Richard Bright
Rôle Kittie
Note73% 3.6928753.6928753.6928753.6928753.692875
Dave Burke, ancien policier licencié injustement, décide de préparer un cambriolage dont le plan semble facilement réalisable. Pour cela, il a besoin d'Earle Slater, un ancien soldat ne réussissant pas à retrouver sa place dans la société, et de Johnny Ingram, un chanteur noir criblé de dettes. Mais Slater est un raciste et Ingram est réticent à l'idée de sombrer dans la criminalité...
Les Gladiateurs, 1h40
Réalisé par Delmer Daves
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Drame, Action, Aventure, Historique, Péplum
Thèmes Afrique post-coloniale, Religion, Sport, La bible, Représentation de Jésus Christ, Films pour enfants
Acteurs Victor Mature, Susan Hayward, William Horace Marshall, Michael Rennie, Debra Paget, Anne Bancroft
Rôle Slave Girl
Note65% 3.299263.299263.299263.299263.29926
Demetrius, l'esclave grec affranchi qui servait le martyre Marcellus, est chargé de conserver la tunique du Christ, remise par l'apôtre Pierre. Mais l'empereur Caligula s'empare de la relique et Demetrius est condamné à l'arène: les jeux des gladiateurs, la troublante Messaline, l’épouse de Claude, l’oncle de ce dernier, mettront à rude épreuve la mission de Demetrius, pour le perdre ou le sauver du destin cruel des combats singuliers.