The twenty most influential artists and entertainers of the 20th century.

Pina Bausch Tanztheater Wuppertal Bulletin Spielplan / Schedule Tickets Ensemble Stucke / Pieces Musik / Music Bibliographie Gastebuch / Guestbook Presse Websites Urauffuhrung Neues Stuck April 2002 Zum Bestellen: Pina Bausch Postkarten www.pina-bausch.de Redaktion + Gestaltung: Nordmeyer + Weckbrodt Foto aus: Der Fensterputzer Jochen Viehoff Sponsored by Hochhardt & Partner ...

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Isadora Duncan: Movement to Free the Soul We welcome you to explore the website about the mother of modern dance, Isadora Duncan. On this site you can learn about Isadora's life and how she revolutionized the art of the dance. Also, discover how the art of Isadora lives on through the Isadora Duncan Foundation for Contemporary Dance and Lori Belilove & Co., the resident dance company of the ...

A complete overview of Twyla Tharp's career from 1965-present & Information on her touring company as well as information on her Brooklyn dance center ...

Virpi Pahkinen - choreographer and dancer The choreographer and solodancer Virpi Pahkinen has an artistic style characterised by concentration, integrity and a particular elegance.

Martha Graham Dancer and choreographer Martha Graham (1894-1991) was the central figure of the modern dance movement. In more than 180 works created during a career of over fifty years, Graham developed an original technique involving the expression of primal emotions through stylized bodily movement of great intensity. Martha Graham started dancing in 1916 with the Denishawn company, and she ...

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Home Index By Subject By Year Biographies The Gift Shop Isadora Duncan (1878-1927) by Samuel Dickson The San Francisco part of this story came to me in bits, like the insignificant pieces of a jigsaw puzzle that have no particular import in themselves, but which, when placed in their proper positions in the over- all design, make a fascinating picture. I found the first small piece in a book on ...

Monday, October 18 7pm, Roble Dance Studio Difficult Dances: The Choreography of Pina Bausch by Janice Ross Photo Jochen Viehoff It's difficult to think of another European dance artist who has continued throughout her career to be both as influential and as controversial as the German choreographer Pina Bausch. Although Bausch trained in New York for three years from 1959-62 during her ...

Homage to Mahler Hanya Holm's setting of Gustav Mahler's Kindertotenlieder (Songs on the Death of Children) Hanya Holm created Homage to Mahler in 1976 during her thirty-fifth consecutive summer of Dance Instruction and Production in Colorado. Premiere performances were August 4 and 5 in Armstrong Theatre at Colorado College in Colorado Springs. Jeanne Piland, soloist with New York City Opera ...

Doris Batcheller Humphrey The Doris Humphrey Society now has their own homepage with stories and pictures of the life of Doris Humphrey, including an upcoming Online Store. Who I Was I was born October 17, 1895, at 315 North Grove Avenue, in a sleepy little town called Oak Park. My father's family had lived in Oak Park for some time -- Humphrey Avenue was named after my grandpa, Simon, who was a ...

Interview with Choreographer Merce Cunningham Click the yellow arrows above to read other interviews. These excerpts were taken directly from Simon & Goodman's interview transcripts, and were edited lightly for clarity. The notation indicates that a question was asked. However, the transcripts most often did not contain the actual question, so the filmmakers could assess the usability of the ...

Undulation, quivering - what I consider micro-isolations are for me the real and deep juice of dance. That's why dance feels sensuous, that's why it can talk about the erotic and talk about the wave-like nature of thought and motion. And I think thoughts and motions do come in waves. Even though it may be that a motion feels abrupt and staccato, the way it courses through the body is like a ...

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CHOREOGRAPHER Bill T. Jones has worn the label black, homosexual and HIV positive so long he's given up resenting it. Forsaking the holy anger of his 1990 landmark, Last Supper at Uncle Tom's Cabin/The Promised Land, and the exploration of life-threatening illness in the 1994 Still/Here, the choreographer -- now 45 years old -- has turned away from overtly political and sexual message-making to ...

Michael Rooney is fast becoming of the most well known choreographers in the world. He is best known for his award winning work with Bjork, Fiona Apple, and Fat Boy Slim.

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Judith Jamison (born 1943), artistic director of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater since 1989. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Jamison began studying both ballet and modern dance at age six. She made her stage debut in 1959 dancing the title role in the ballet Giselle. Jamison studied psychology at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee, for three years, and then transferred to the ...

Pearl Primus (1919-1994), Trinidadian-American dancer, choreographer, and anthropologist, whose work helped establish the importance of African American dance in United States culture. Primus was born in Trinidad and moved with her family to the United States as a young child. In 1940 she graduated from Hunter College with a degree in biology and premedical studies. Primus planned to become a ...

Finely crafted choreography, blending the movement concepts of modern dance with the elegance and technical virtuosity of ballet.

By Richard Covington Bounding up the stairs backstage at the Edinburgh Festival Theatre, balancing a glass of lager and a cigarette, Mark Morris unintentionally displays the exuberant grace that characterizes his choreography. Even with his fullback's girth, the 6-foot-2 Morris, whose dance group was just wrapping up a triumphant week's performances at the Edinburgh Festival, seems light on his ...

The Boston Phoenix November 12 - 19, 1998 | reviews & features | dance performance | dance participatory | hot links | Tharpbeats Knowing Twyla by heart by Marcia B. Siegel Twyla Tharp doesn't realize that her mind is capable of processing three times more information than even the most above-average audience member. It's part of her charm that she just assumes we can keep up with her. It's part ...