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Background
Gus Solomons, Jr. is an accomplished dancer, choreographer, dance critic, and actor, as well as an arts professor at the New York University Tisch School for the Arts. He holds a BA in Architecture (1961) from MIT, where he also began dance lessons.
Interests
Early in his career, Solomons worked to find new experimental forms of dance by deconstructing learned structures. He formed the Solomons Company/Dance, for which he created more than 100 dances, and is a co-founder of PARADIGM DANCE, a company he co-founded with Dudley Williams and Carmen de Lavallade in 1988 “to present the eloquence of older dancers onstage in repertory appropriate to their gifts and in dances created by mostly younger choreographers.” Solomons is also respected for his exceptionally lucid dance criticism.
A recipient of MIT’s first annual Robert A. Muh Award, Solomons subsequently returned to MIT as an MLK visiting scholar. He worked with students in the MIT Dance Theater Ensemble to create “Crowd.”, a new environmental work. For this intense residency, Solomons decided to make the work as an “installation” in the space of the Architecture Library itself. The 10-member ensemble performed “Crowd.” in September and December of 2002 to an original musical score composed and performed by Brian Robison, assistant professor of music.
News Items
4 new MLK Visiting Professors named
The MLK Visiting Professors include two mathematicians, a material scientist and an urbanologist.
Choreographer Solomons creates new work for MIT students
MLK Visiting Scholar Gus Solomons' new work will be performed in the Rotch Architecture Library.