Word: choreographing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...magic lantern show: one minute the proscenium is an expanse of bold color stripes, the next a field of white pin-points of light. Even when you remind yourself that it's all stagecraft, you're still astounded--it's hard to believe that one man, Alvin Nikolais, could choreograph score, costume and light such intricate theater works...
Died. Charles Weidman, 73, pioneer of American modern dance; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Like Choreographer-Dancers Martha Graham and Doris Humphrey, Weidman studied at the famed Denishawn School in Los Angeles, leaving to found his own company with Humphrey in 1929. Seeking to choreograph the American scene, Weidman created such works as Lynch Town, a depiction of mob violence, and Fables for Our Time, based on a series of James Thurber's stories. A dedicated teacher, he numbered among his pupils José Limón and Choreographer Bob Fosse (Cabaret, Chicago...
...goat-footed guile, while Reinking courses across the stage like a thoroughbred in the stretch. The music races toward oblivion rather than anyone's ears. Rouben Ter-Arutunian's majestic scenery features a columned, rotunda-like set with a cascade of steps. This forces Onna White to choreograph dances in which the chorus troops trippingly, and repeatedly, up and down...
...Kirstein company, the American Ballet, went broke while on tour in Scranton, Pa., in 1935. Thanks partly to some fast lobbying by Kirstein, the troupe was taken on as the ballet wing of the Metropolitan Opera. Three years later the company dissolved as Balanchine went off to Hollywood to choreograph such films as The Goldwyn Follies and On Your Toes, and Kirstein enlisted in the U.S. Army...
Life is still clearly surging through her. She has no plans to retire. In July, Graham and her company will go to Lake Placid, N.Y., where she will preside over a theater workshop. While there, she will choreograph another new work, oversee three more revivals and also tape her reminiscences for a future autobiography...