Tracy Allen Rhoades
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| Born | July 17, 1961 Pacific Grove, CA |
| 💀Died | January 13, 1993 San Francisco, CAJanuary 13, 1993 |
| 🏳️ Nationality | American |
| 🎓 Alma mater | California Institute for the Arts |
| 💼 Occupation | |
| Notable work | Requiem |
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Tracy Allen Rhoades (July 17, 1961 – January 13, 1993) was an American modern dancer and choreographer. His most notable piece, Requiem, embodies the AIDS-related grief of the San Francisco Bay Area in the early 1990s.[1]
Early Life and Education
Tracy was born and raised in Pacific Grove, California, and displayed a love of music and dancing from an early age. His family says that "He could always be found creating dances, twirling a baton, and playing music." He sang in several choirs, played trombone, and was the drum major for the Pacific Grove High School band, leading it to a state championship award.[2] Tracy began studying dance at Monterey Peninsula College in 1980, earned a bachelor’s degree from the California Institute of Fine Arts in Valencia in 1986, and continued studying at the Harvard School of Dance and the American School of Dance.
Career
Tracy began choreographing and performing his own work in the early 1980s, while studying dance at Monterey Peninsula College. Piano Lesson #1 is an example of work from this era, displaying his very long and slender arms and legs and a child-like sense of humor.[3] In 1981, Tracy choreographed and performed in the video for "Magic" by Mike Nesmith, part of his Elephant Parts project.[4][5] After graduating from CalArts, Tracy moved to New York and performed with Mark Dendy, Pooh Kaye, and the Joyce Trisler Dance Company. Moving back home to San Francisco, Tracy danced with the Della Davidson Dance Company[6] and the High Risk Group, while continuing to choreograph and perform solo works.[7] He eventually formed his own company, Exploding Roses, where he created Magnificat and The Seventh Veil. [8] [9] Tracy also had a small dancing role in the film "Mom and Dad Save the World" (1992).[10]
Requiem
Tracy's piece Requiem is frequently cited when discussing artists' responses to the AIDS crisis. Originally conceived in a cow meadow on the Big Sur coastline in 1985, the piece slowly evolved into its final form, a eulogy for his deceased lover, Jim Poche, and came to symbolize the AIDS-related grief of the Bay Area dance community.[11] Dance critic Paul Parish praised the piece for its simplicity: "Dances that deal with AIDS have been part of every season since 1985. All have been heartfelt, although none has achieved a formal economy that could make it monumental, inevitable, simple. But this year [1990] a dance has emerged that evokes everything that needs to be invoked and nothing that doesn't, that affects everyone who sees it no matter what his or her background, and transforms the suffering of the dancer (who is wearing the clothes of his lover who died of AIDS) into a spirit of grace that has a great power to console onlookers."[8] "Requiem is one of the greatest ballets ever to come out of the Bay Area and perhaps the supreme monument to those who died in our holocaust."[12] A video of the piece can be viewed here: Tracy Rhoades performing "Requiem"
Other Interests & Talents
In addition to dancing and choreography, Tracy was also a gifted vocalist, frequently collaborating with the San Francisco-based musical collective ghetto girl.[13][14] He was also interested in the metaphysical arts, studying tarot, astrology, and psychic healing.
Gallery
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Tracy Rhoades. Practicing his moves while on vacation in Mexico. 1988.
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Tracy Rhoades. On Garapata Bach in Big Sur. 1990.
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Tracy Rhoades. Promo shot for "Angels and Clay" by the Della Davidson and the SF Moving Company. 1990.
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Tracy Rhoades. Promo pic for "Requiem". 1991.
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Tracy Rhoades. Promo pic for "Requiem". 1991.
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Tracy Rhoades. Promo pic for "Requiem". 1991. Image used in Dancers We Lost: Honoring Performers Lost to HIV/AIDS, an exhibition of photographs at the GLBT History Museum in San Francisco.[15]
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Tracy Rhoades. 1991.
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Tracy Rhoades in the San Francisco Gay pride Parade. 1992.
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Tracy Rhoades. Screen shot from his appearance in the film "Mom & Dad Save the World". 1992
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Spoken word performance recordings by Tracy Rhoades[16]
References
- ↑ www.dancerswelost.org http://www.dancerswelost.org/tracy-allen-rhoades/. Retrieved 2022-01-14. Missing or empty
|title=(help) - ↑ "Tracy Rhoades". www.tracyrhoades.com. Retrieved 2022-01-14.
- ↑ Tracy Rhoades ~ Piano Lesson #1, retrieved 2022-01-14
- ↑ Elephant Parts (Video 1981) - IMDb, retrieved 2022-01-14
- ↑ Michael Nesmith - Magic, retrieved 2022-01-14
- ↑ Tracy Rhoades 'ANGELS + CLAY' excerpt (S.F. Moving Company 1988), retrieved 2022-01-14
- ↑ Tracy Rhoades ~ "Spin Cycle", retrieved 2022-01-14
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Gere, David (2004-09-15). How to Make Dances in an Epidemic: Tracking Choreography in the Age of AIDS. Univ of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 978-0-299-20083-1. Search this book on
- ↑ Winn, Steven (2006-06-08). "AIDS AT 25". SFGATE. Retrieved 2022-01-14.
- ↑ Mom and Dad Save the World (1992) - IMDb, retrieved 2022-01-14
- ↑ "Tracy Rhoades". www.dancerswelost.org. Retrieved 2022-01-14. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ "Deep-rooted choreography". The Bay Area Reporter / B.A.R. Inc. Retrieved 2022-01-14.
- ↑ "Tracy Rhoades: The Final Recordings, by Tracy Rhoades". g.i.g. worldwide entertainment. Retrieved 2022-01-14.
- ↑ "Mother Theresa, by ghetto girl". ghetto girl. Retrieved 2022-01-14.
- ↑ "'Dancers We Lost' Honors Bay Area Dancers who Died of AIDS". KQED. Retrieved 2022-01-14.
- ↑ "Tracy Rhoades: The Final Recordings, by Tracy Rhoades". g.i.g. worldwide entertainment. Retrieved 2022-01-14.
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