Clint Lutes
From Sweet and Tender
Clint Lutes studied Musical Theater at SUNY New Paltz, then completed his Bachelor’s of Fine Arts Degree in Dance at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. He has worked with Joy Kellman, Maya Lipsker, Melanie Lane, Johannes Wieland, Ann Carlson, Eun Me Ahn, Brian Brooks Moving Company and Christoph Winkler, among others.
Clint’s own choreography has been shown at the MoDaFe Festival 2004, the Rohkunstbau Festival, Tanz im August, Theater Freiburg and at the Städtische Bühne Heidelberg as well as other theaters in New York and Berlin. In 2005 Clint received a grant from the Berlin Senate for Science, Research and Culture for his solo production Santa Maria Effekt and in 2006 a stipend to attend the danceWEB scholarship program at ImpulsTanz in Vienna where he became involved with the Sweet & Tender Collaborations.
In 2007 he created PULP for the Vis Motrix Company in Thessaloniki, Greece and Some Give and Take With Anticipation for the pvc Company in Freiburg/Heidelberg, Germany; 2008 Demise with posttheater in Berlin and Even Christmas Can’t Save You Now with pvc. In 2009 he will create the duet Brother Brother with Tommy Noonan as well as present new work in the Gala Opening for the Opera House in St. Pölten, Austria.
Clint is the Artistic Director of the LUCKY TRIMMER Tanz Performance Serie in Berlin (www.luckytrimmer.de) and has lived in Berlin since 2002 dancing, choreographing and teaching classes and workshops for DOCK11 (artist-in-residence since 2005), Marameo, Tanzfabrik, Sasha Waltz & Guests, Australian Dance Theater, Options Dance Festival, Le Pacifique | CDC Grenoble, Staattheater Osnabrück, Regensburger Tanztage, Suwon University, Kookmin University, the Seoul Performing Arts High School and the Ahn Eun Me Company.
LUCKY TRIMMER Tanz Performance Serie
Spotlighting both emerging and established performing artists presenting works with a length of 10 minutes maximum. LUCKY TRIMMER represents a broad vision of what contemporary dance is today, encouraging performance-makers of all kinds to experiment, question, dare and most importantly, to dance.
