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Alwin Nikolas
Alwin started his career as a organist accompanying silent films. Eventually Alwin went to Bennington College to begin his dance training. He became interested in dace after seeing Mary Wigman performed on stage. -
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Merce Cunningham
Cunningham’s movement style has been called modern on top
and ballet on the bottom because it tends to utilize elements like and ballet on the bottom because it tends to utilize elements like
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Paul Taylor
Paul was a dancer and choreographer. He was the last living members of the third generation of America's modern dance dancer. He also founded the Paul Taylor Dance Company in 1954 in New York City -
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Alvin Ailey
Alvin was a choreographer, director, and activist in addition to being a dancer. The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater was also formed by Alvin. He established AAADT to allow Black dancers to communicate the universality of the African-American experience via dance. Alvin Ailey's ballets are among the most popular and widely performed in the world. -
The New Dance Group
The New Dance Group was formed in 1932 by Fanva Gelim, Miriam
Blecher, Nadia Chilkovsky, Becky Lee, Grace Wylie, and Edna Ocko who was a big part of the revolutionary dance movement. They performed for workers, students, and concert audiences -
First Concert
First concert for the new dance group was at the Heckscher
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Yvonne Rainer
Yvonne Rainer is a dancer, choreographer, and filmmaker. Overall, her artwork is sometimes classified as minimalist art.
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Trish Brown
Trisha Brown was a dancer and choreographer who founded the Judson Dance Theater and the postmodern dance movement. She was also an Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. The French government awarded her the title of Chevalier dans L'Ordre des Arts et Lettres in 1988. -
Steve Paxton
Steve Paxton is an experimental dancer and choreographer. Steve point of view about dance is that he always has believed that even an untrained dancer could contribute to the dance form. Steve started to have great interest in pedestrian movement when it came to creating his dances for his audience members. -
Cunningham 1stconcert
Cunningham was already spreading his
choreographic wings and had a 1choreographic wings and had a 1stconcert in 1944 (just before leaving Martha concert in 1944 -
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The Judson Dance Theater
The Judson Dance Theater was a bunch of dancers, composers, and visual artists who performed at the Judson Memorial Church in Greenwich Village, Manhattan New York City. -
Cage n Cunningham
Cunningham 1stst met Cage while at Cornish and the met Cage while at Cornish and the two quickly became both life and creative partners. two quickly became both life and creative partners