Cary Rick
Cary Rick takes his first steps on a professional stage at the age of fifteen at Drury Lane Theater in his hometown of Chicago. He establishes a community theater group in the low-income suburb of South Chicago where he teaches acting to children, teenagers and adults, establishes a theater ensemble and directs their plays. At twenty-one he moves to Europe and begins training as a dance soloist at Vienna’s Municipal Academy of Music and the Performing Arts, and with Mary Wigman at her studio in West Berlin. Rick is finally taken on as an apprentice by renowned dance soloist, Dore Hoyer.
In Berlin he stages the group movement scenes for director, Erwin Piscator and in Helsinki for director, Eugen Terttula. Following the debut of his own solo dance performance in Helsinki, he tours his one-man-show throughout Finland under the auspices of the Goethe Institute, directs movement for several productions at Helsinki’s Municipal Theater, where he simultaneously trains the actors and the dance ensemble, and teaches directing at Helsinki’s Swedish Theater School. After 50 performances in Paris at the Théâtre des Champs Elysées with Marcel Marceau Cary Rick performs his own critically acclaimed one-man-show in Paris at the Carré Thorigny Theater and afterwards goes on tour throughout France.
As a result of his critical success at the International Theater Festival in Avignon, he performs on tour throughout Europe. Cary Rick has taught and lectured as artist-in-residence in the theater and dance divisions of the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, the dance and drama departments of universities in Munich and Frankfurt, and has been a visiting professor at the University of Giessen’s division of applied theater sciences. Cary Rick terminates his performing career after a guest performance for the Goethe Institute 1983 in Rome on account of a spine injury and works more and more as a dance therapist.
At the end of the eighties he’s made the first chairman of the association for dance therapy in Austria. 1994 he establishes the Institute for Movement Analysis in Switzerland for training and research. His many publications in the area of dance and theater science as well as movement therapy have been translated into several languages. Cary Rick is recognized as a Board-Certified Dance/Movement Therapist of the American Dance/Movement Therapy Association (ADTA). During a teaching stint at the Swiss Musical Academy in Bern, Cary Rick meets his future wife, Martina. Together they found Les Arts Scéniques.
In Berlin he stages the group movement scenes for director, Erwin Piscator and in Helsinki for director, Eugen Terttula. Following the debut of his own solo dance performance in Helsinki, he tours his one-man-show throughout Finland under the auspices of the Goethe Institute, directs movement for several productions at Helsinki’s Municipal Theater, where he simultaneously trains the actors and the dance ensemble, and teaches directing at Helsinki’s Swedish Theater School. After 50 performances in Paris at the Théâtre des Champs Elysées with Marcel Marceau Cary Rick performs his own critically acclaimed one-man-show in Paris at the Carré Thorigny Theater and afterwards goes on tour throughout France.
As a result of his critical success at the International Theater Festival in Avignon, he performs on tour throughout Europe. Cary Rick has taught and lectured as artist-in-residence in the theater and dance divisions of the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, the dance and drama departments of universities in Munich and Frankfurt, and has been a visiting professor at the University of Giessen’s division of applied theater sciences. Cary Rick terminates his performing career after a guest performance for the Goethe Institute 1983 in Rome on account of a spine injury and works more and more as a dance therapist.
At the end of the eighties he’s made the first chairman of the association for dance therapy in Austria. 1994 he establishes the Institute for Movement Analysis in Switzerland for training and research. His many publications in the area of dance and theater science as well as movement therapy have been translated into several languages. Cary Rick is recognized as a Board-Certified Dance/Movement Therapist of the American Dance/Movement Therapy Association (ADTA). During a teaching stint at the Swiss Musical Academy in Bern, Cary Rick meets his future wife, Martina. Together they found Les Arts Scéniques.
