Michael parmenter biography
Michael parmenter biography
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Michael Parmenter
New Zealand choreographer and dancer
Michael Earl ParmenterMNZM (born 1954) is a New Zealand choreographer, teacher 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 has a master's degree in creative and performance dance from the University of Auckland.[2] He formed the dance company Commotion in 1990 with notable works including the dance opera Jerusalem.[3]
Recent work includes dance opera OrphEus which premiered at the 2018 Auckland Arts Festival.[4] Parmenter talks about being gay and living with HIV in a TV documentary about him[5] and in his autobiographical solo performance A Long Undressing.[6] He has taught at the New Zealand School of Dance and UNITEC.
He has choreographed for Footnote Dance Company, the Royal New Zealand Ba