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A CONTEMPORARY MASTER: MAURICE BÉJART

Maurice Béjart was a French-born dancer, choreographer and opera director who ran the Béjart Ballet Lausanne in Switzerland. He developed a popular expressionistic form of modern ballet. Béjart often sought inspiration from the Eastern cultures for his ...

Alwin Nikolais

Alwin Nikolais’s ‘Tensile Involvement’. Photo: Fred Hayes © Fred Hayes American choreographer, dancer, composer, musician, and teacher Alwin Nikolaiswas best known for his self-designed innovative costume, lighting and production design. Nikolais gave the w...

Martha Graham

"I have spent all my life with dance and being a dancer. It's permitting life to use you in a very intense way. Sometimes it is not pleasant. Sometimes it is fearful. But nevertheless it is inevitable." American modern dancer and choreographer Martha Gr...