Lucinda Childs, born in 1940, began her career at the Judson Dance Theater in New York in 1963. Since forming her dance company ten years later, she has created over fifty works, both solo and ensemble, and received numerous awards, including the Dance Magazine Award, the Golden Lion award from the Venice Biennale and the Samuel H. Scripps American Dance Festival Award for lifetime achievement.
In 1976 she featured in the landmark avant-garde opera Einstein on the Beach by Philip Glass and Robert Wilson, for which she won an Obie Award. In 1979 Childs choreographed one of her most enduring works, Dance, with music by Philip Glass and film décor by Sol LeWitt, which toured internationally and has been added to the repertory of the Lyon Opera Ballet.
Since 1981, Childs has choreographed over thirty works for major ballet companies and directed and choreographed a number of contemporary and 18th-century operas for the Los Angeles Opera, for La Monnaie in Brussels and for the Opéra National du Rhin, among others. Most recently, Childs directed and choreographed Philip Glass’s Ahknaten for Opéra Nice Côte d’Azur, a production which premiered in November 2021.
