Biographies

Terese Capucillireturn

Terese Capucilli, (Associate Founder of Buglisi/Foreman Dance) began her collaboration with Buglisi and Foreman in 1991 on their Carmina Burana. Since then she has performed Ms. Buglisi's Threshold and Sospiri and Mr. Foreman's Field of Loves on numerous occasions nationally and internationally, premiered Runes of the Heart, Bare to the Wall and Frida, and filmed all six works for the Lincoln Center Library Dance archives. In 1998, Ms. Buglisi choreographed Against All Odds for her.

She holds annual company workshops in Montreal and was twice invited by the Edinburgh International Festival's Education Program to lecture, teach and choreograph. Now in her 20th year as principal dancer with the Martha Graham Dance Company, and as Associate Artistic Director, she has become distinguished in a diversity of Graham classics, interpreting over 25 roles originally performed by Martha Graham. Ms. Graham created many roles for Terese including The Chosen One in The Rite of Spring and the lead role in her final ballet Maple Leaf Rag. She has become instrumental in the research and reconstruction of many early Graham solos, being the first dancer after Ms. Graham to perform these roles.

On film, she danced in An Evening of Dance & Conversation with Martha Graham for PBS-TV, and in the company's filming in Tokyo and at the Paris Opera. Ms. Capucilli has shared the stage on two occasions with Rudolf Nureyev, appeared with both Kathleen Turner and Claire Bloom, and has been partnered by Mikhail Baryshnikov in three Graham classics, subsequently performing with Baryshnikov's White Oak Project in Paris and London.

She has had lead roles created for her by Twyla Tharp, Robert Wilson, and Lucinda Childs. Terese is on the faculty of the Martha Graham School and the Juilliard School. A recipient of a Dance Fellowship from the Princess Grace Foundation-USA, she was later awarded the Princess Grace Statuette.