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358: 379:. He avoided overused themes like psychosexuality, good against evil, or heroes and heroines. Instead, he chose to move away from the life of the individual and focus on group action. He preferred also to develop his own style of movement, and not to replicate the moves of previous periods or other choreographers. He expanded the use of music in dance from being mainly a way of marking time or adding emotional value to a way to create new sounds to add to his new theatrical environments. He was among the first customers for the newly developed 237:. 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. Nikolais redefined dance as "the art of motion which, left on its own merits, becomes the message as well as the medium". He stated "the Province of art is to explore the inner mechanisms and extra dimensional areas of life and, out of the exploration, to produce its findings translated into the form of the artist's media." It was also at Henry Street Playhouse that Nikolais was joined by 222: 391:
design concept. For example, in "Discs," dancers wore colored aluminum discs on one of their feet. In addition to extending a dancer's base and range of balance, they also added vertical extension. Shape, color, and material provided both visual and auditory elements. In "Stratus and Nimbus" and "Scenario," dancers wore sound-producing fiberboard circles on their feet, altering the dancer's movement to create aural effects.
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to deal with public affairs, preferring to focus on his school and theatre. Nikolais was renowned as a teacher, and his pedagogy is taught in schools and universities throughout the world. Nikolais, referring to his students, said: "Each student is encouraged toward the highest aesthetic values, and
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Nikolais placed great emphasis on sensory experience through which a dancer's dynamic action is conveyed to the audience. He emphasized that perception of one area can be emphasized by deliberately blocking out consciousness in other unwanted areas. In the 1950s Nikolais used blackface, whiteface,
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is credited with creating and popularizing modern multimedia theater (Mazo, Joseph). Some critics refused to categorize Nikolais’ work as dance, for example when he transformed the bodies of dancers by covering them in plastic bags that would stretch and change shapes in “Noumenon,” a section from
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Nikolais used a barefoot dance technique. He preferred it for practical reasons, viewing the muscular and tactile functions of bare feet as essential to the total body. He worked to incorporate this into the body design of the dancer's costumes, sometimes making the device a primary part of the
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Nikolais employed lights, slides, electronic music, and stage props to create environments through which dancers moved and, more importantly, into which they blended (Dance Magazine, 1968). He would commonly use props with aesthetic as well as functional purposes; for instance, a traveler moving
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Nikolais used lighting extensively, directing light from multiple directions and levels and using it to create shape, space, and silhouettes. He returned to his early work as a musical composer to design his own score for choreography using electronic tape. At the Henry Street Playhouse (now
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Nikolais' artistic mandate was for meaning to be conveyed strictly through movement. He characterized his stage presentations as "decentralizing" the dancer, so that humans were only one of the theatrical elements on stage. Nikolais despised modern dance's obsession with self.
411:), a seven speaker system was used to play the score from throughout the room, giving it dimensions of time and space. Combining cast, lighting and music with modern dance techniques gained him a world-wide reputation for theatrical arts. Nikolais received high honors from 143:, dancer, composer, musician, and teacher. He had created the Nikolais Dance Theatre, and was known for his self-designed innovative costume, lighting and production design. Nikolais gave the world a new vision of dance and was named the "father of multi-media theater." 482:, Greece, and 30 other cities both foreign and national as well as a special citation from New York City's Mayor, which he shared with Murray Louis. Often referred to as the American Patriarch of French modern dance, Nikolais is a knight of France's 159:
at an early age and began his performing career as an organist accompanying silent films. As a young artist, he gained skills in scenic design, acting, puppetry and music composition. It was after attending a performance by the German dancer
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upon creative fluency and achievement, as well as technical skill. The job of the teacher is to pursue, institute and constantly anticipate the best possible activities coinciding with this idealistic thesis."
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The Neighborhood Playhouse (Henry Street Playhouse) at 466 Grand Street at the corner of Pitt Street in the Lower East Side neighborhood built in 1913-15 and designed by Ingalls & Hoffman.
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Nikolais was renowned as a teacher, and his pedagogy is taught in schools and universities throughout the world. He died of cancer May 8, 1993, in New York and is buried in
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Dance Theatre of Alwin Nikolais, Company Publications, Alwin Nikolais and Murray Louis Papers, MSS. 181: Alden Library, Ohio University.
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Following the Audio Engineering Society convention, in October 1964, Nikolais saw and immediately placed an order for the first
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papers - a student of Nikolais, dancer in the Nikolais Dance Company, and Distinguished Professor of dance at Ohio University.
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In 1949, Nikolais was appointed co-director of the Henry Street Settlement Playhouse, alongside Betty Young. He formed the
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In 1939, in collaboration with Truda Kaschmann, his first modern dance teacher, Nikolais received a commission to create
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and colored makeup both to create and prevent sensory blocking, manipulating perceptions of race in dances such as
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across the stage would hide a crossing and simultaneously create a volume of motion. His 1953 production
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Nikolais’ first production, after the creation of the Henry Street Settlement Playhouse (now
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Nikolais was known amongst colleagues and peers as shy and reserved. He allowed his partner
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In 1956, the Nikolais Dance Theater was invited to its first of many appearances at the
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After teaching two years at his own dance studio and touring the United States with
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The Alwin Nikolais and Murray Louis Dance Collection, Ohio University Libraries
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Nikolais was granted five honorary doctorate degrees, was twice designated a
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The Nikolais/Louis Dance Technique: A Philosophy and Method of Modern Dance
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In 1978, the French National Ministry of Culture invited him to form the
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Archival footage of Alberto Del Saz and Peter Kyle in Nikolais's
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His accolades from the world of arts and letters included the
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American choreographer, dancer, composer, musician and teacher
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Nikolais was the first customer for the newly developed
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Alwin Nikolais: Electronic Dance Music at Amazon.com
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Index

Nikolais
Alwin Nikolais portrait
Southington, Connecticut
New York City
choreographer
composer
dancer
Murray Louis
choreographer
Southington, Connecticut
piano
Mary Wigman
Bennington College
Hanya Holm
Martha Graham
Doris Humphrey
Charles Weidman
Louis Horst
Hanya Holm
World War II
Colorado College

Murray Louis
American Dance Festival
The Steve Allen Show
CBS Repertoire Workshop
Moog
Théâtre des Champs-Élysées
Théâtre de la Ville
Centre Nationale de la Danse Contemporaine

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