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Mr. Nikolais has made a distinctive contribution to the arts of costume and decor.
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To raise the dancer out of his personal, pedestrian self, Mr. Nikolais has experimented with relating him to a larger, environmental orbit.
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Whether positive or negative vibrations ensued in the spectator's sensorium made little difference to Nikolais.
Louis made his debut as the lead soloist in Nikolais ’ newly formed Playhouse Dance Company ( which would late be renamed the Nikolais Dance Theater ).
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The combination of cast, original lighting and music, with modern dance techniques, gained The Nikolais Dance Theatre a world-renowned reputation in the theatrical arts.
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Alwin Nikolais objects to art as an outpouring of personal emotion.
`` Signal '' is choreographed for three male dancers to an electronic score by Alwin Nikolais.
** Alwin Nikolais, American choreographer ( b. 1912 )
Her choreography inspired communist dance troupes in the 1930s in New York City Her work in the United States is credited to her protegee Hanya Holm, and then to Hanya's students Alwin Nikolais and Joanne Woodbury.
An Associate Emeritus Professor from the University of Iowa, where she taught for 27 years, she worked with such noted professionals as the Joffrey Ballet, Alwin Nikolais, and Jacques d ' Amboise.
The first Moog system was bought by choreographer Alwin Nikolais.
Alwin Nikolais, photographed by Ralph E. SandlerAlwin Nikolais ( November 25, 1910 in Southington, Connecticut – May 8, 1993 ) was an American choreographer.
Nikolais studied piano at an early age and began his performing career as an organist accompanying silent films.
In 1940, in collaboration with Truda Kaschmann, his first modern dance teacher, Nikolais received a commission to create Eight Column Line, his first ballet.
After teaching two years at his own studio and touring the US with dancers from Hanya Holm's company, Nikolais did active duty in the Army during World War II as a master sergeant in criminal investigation.
Nikolais relocated to New York City following the war and resumed studying with Hanya Holm.
In 1948, Nikolais was appointed director of the Henry Street Playhouse, which had been left in a state of transition and had to be entirely re-established.
He formed the Playhouse Dance Company, which was later renamed and known as the Nikolais Dance Theatre.
It was at Henry Street that Nikolais began to develop his own world of abstract dance theatre, portraying man as part of a total environment.
" It was also at Henry Street Playhouse that Mr. Nikolais was joined by Murray Louis, who was to become a driving force in the Playhouse Company, Nikolais ' leading dancer and longtime collaborator.
In 1956, the Nikolais Dance Theater was invited to its first of many appearances at the American Dance Festival.
With the company's 1968 Paris season at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Nikolais ' impact on dance grew internationally.
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Since 1944 he has also conducted regularly at the San Francisco Opera, where he made his debut with a memorable performance of Verdi's Falstaff.
The modern Negro has not made a decisive debut into Southern fiction.
Not a single Southern author, major or minor, has made the urban problems of an urban South his primary source material.
He has made it his, and his it remains, irrevocably.
But it has been during the last two centuries, during the scientific revolution, that our independence from the physical environment has made the most rapid strides.
Civilization is what man has made of himself.
It is to say rather, I believe, that he has brought to bear on the history, the traditions, and the lore of his region a critical, skeptical mind -- the same mind which has made of him an inveterate experimenter in literary form and technique.
A useful comment on his relation to his region may be made, I think, by noting briefly how in handling Southern materials and Southern problems he has deviated from the pattern set by other Southern authors while remaining faithful to the essential character of the region.
Carl has been married to Paula for fifty-three years, and he has not made a single major decision without careful consideration and thorough discussion with his wife.
We note that, first, America has already made great contributions in the past two years to the world's fund of knowledge of astrophysics and space science.
Steele first answers briefly the charges which his `` dear old Friend '' has made about his pamphlet on Dunkirk and his Crisis.
Certainly one of the most important comments that can be made upon the spiritual and cultural life of any period of Western civilization during the past sixteen or seventeen centuries has to do with the way in which its leaders have read and interpreted the Bible.
In any case, she told Thompson that she saw no reason why he might not see Katie again, `` now that this frank explanation has been made & no one can misunderstand ''.
The publication of Father Connolly's The Man Has Wings has made more of the group available in print so that a general picture of what it contained can now be had without difficulty.
Georgia has made some reforms, true.
This tends to create friction and confusion and has not made it easier for Secretary Rusk to restore vigor and initiative among his subordinates.
But preservation of the natural beauty of the Cape is of more than regional concern, for the automobile age has made it the recreation spot of people from all over the country.
Toys he has can be made to act as substitutes for family temptations such as refrigerator and gas stove.
If this capacity had not failed them, they would see that their enemy has made a disastrous miscalculation.
But to imitate an opponent when he has made the mistake of his life would be a new high in statesmanlike folly.
But more than one conscientious researcher has been inhibited from completely frank discussion of the available evidence by the less excusable fact that fallout has been made a political issue as well as a scientific problem.
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