Dance Teacher, March 1st, 2008
Influential American choreographer and teacher
Known as the "wizard" of dance, Alwin Nikolais (1910-1993) was a multi-talented multimedia pioneer who, over the course of 55 years, choreographed everything from dance, opera and site-specific pieces to work for film and worldwide television. While he developed a dance technique, his primary influence, says Hunter College Dance Department Director Jana Feinman, was "in pedagogy, in understanding the body in motion."
Born in Southington, Connecticut, to a German mother and Russian father, Nikolais was raised to be a hard worker with a high regar...
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