Sentences with phrase «american choreographer»

American choreographer Merce Cunningham and painter Robert Ryman are among the winners of this year's Praemium Imperiale awards, announced today by the Japan Art Assn. for lifetime achievement in arts categories not recognized by the Nobel prizes.

Trisha Brown (November 25, 1936 — March 18, 2017) was an American choreographer and dancer, and one of the founders of the Judson Dance Theater and the postmodern dance movement.

The original photograph dated from 1960 and depicted a scene from a dance by American choreographer Erick Hawkins.

The performance LANGUAGE adopts a series of methodological rules based on `' No Manifesto» (1956) by the American choreographer, dancer and filmmaker Yvonne Rainer, whose objective was to revolutionize dance and reduce it to its essential elements.

It's nearly half a century since American choreographer Yvonne Rainer announced the death of traditional dance values, in her famously radical «No» manifesto of 1965.

Takehiro Ueyama received the 2015 Jadin Wong Award for Emerging Asian American choreographer by Asian American Arts Alliance.

This survey of the life and work of the American choreographer and dancer spotlights how he pushed the traditional boundaries of dance through his experimental collaborations with artists.

Pushing a neo-1960s vibe, Ms. Macel includes the American choreographer Anna Halprin and the Slovenian artist collective OHO.

This exhibition tells the story of the rise of Korean - American choreographer Dana Tai Soon Burgess to international prominence by tracing his cultural heritage and how it has influenced his acclaimed work.

He has received numerous accolades, including a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, awards from the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, an American Choreographer Award, and a New York Dance and Performance «Bessie» Award.

American choreographer Karole Armitage will debut a work - in - progress piece that she will be developing while an artist - in - residence at the Chinati Foundation in the fall of 2012.

American choreographer Karole Armitage sent shockwaves across the dance world when she coupled classical ballet with blaring rock music in the 1980s.

Gerald Arpino, 85, founder of the Joffrey Ballet who oversaw the company's move from New York to Chicago, as well as a distinctly American choreographer whose works popularized dance with a trendy finger on the nation's pulse; Oct. 29, in Chicago, after a long illness.

When it comes to rituals, a great example comes from American choreographer, dancer, and author Twyla Tharp.

Composer John Cage's often overlooked collaborations with African - American choreographers and dancers during the development of his iconic «prepared piano» include Bacchanale (1940), written for dancer Syvilla Fort, the subject of Ayoka Chenzira's film Syvilla: They Dance to Her Drum (1979).

All Of Us Have A Sense Of Rhythm takes as a starting point the percussive Bikutsi dance music of 1940s Cameroon, and traces the often - overlooked collaborations of modernist composer John Cage with African - American choreographers.

Not exact matches

If Bollywood music just isn't your thing, try GROOV3, a hip - hop inspired dance workout created by Ben Allen, a choreographer and instructor who's performed at the American Music Awards and in the film adaptation of Rent.

Blood: The Last Vampire (Sony), a live action adaptation of the popular Japanese anime, is an awkward and odd international hybrid: shot in English by a French director (Luc Besson protégé Chris Nahon) with a Hong Kong action choreographer (Corey Yuen), a cast of Brits posing as Americans and Japanese actors performing in English.

by Bryant Frazer Celebrated as an incisive, self - lacerating backstage spectacle and razzed as an indulgent and pretentious passion project, genius director - choreographer Bob Fosse's All That Jazz is one of the most ambitious American films of the 1970s.

The Colors of the Prism, The Mechanics of Time (Unrated) Avant Garde Movement retrospective exploring the cultural contributions of such visionary American composers and choreographers as Philip Glass, Meredith Monk, Terry Riley, La Monte Young, Steve Reich, Pauline Oliveros and Gavin Bryars.

«SHRINKABULLS LILY MICHAELS» Owned by «Mia Michaels» Multi Emmy winner famous Choreographer: 2011 Emmy Winner - «So You Think You Can Dance», FOX 2010 Emmy Winner - «So You Think You Can Dance», FOX 2008 Emmy Nominee - «So You Think You Can Dance» - «Mercy», FOX 2007 Emmy Winner - «So You Think You Can Dance», «Calling You», FOX 2004 Emmy Nominee - Celine in Las Vegas: Opening Night Live, 2004 Emmy Nominee - Celine in Las Vegas: Opening Night Live, CBS 2003 & 2004 American Choreography Award Nominee.

Others are emerging American artists with whom Atlas will be collaborating for the first time, such as choreographers Laurie Berg, the Illustrious Blacks (May 3 — 5 only), Imma Asher (May 10 — 12 only) and Solo Termite, with more to be announced!

In ReComposed (2015), co-commissioned by ADF and the Nasher Museum, choreographer Doug Varone creates a dance inspired by American abstract artist Joan Mitchell's pastel drawings.

Video Portraits of Lady Gaga is the much talked about exhibition conceived and created by the multi-titled American sculptor, painter, stage director, playwright, choreographer, performer, and video artist Robert Wilson.

by Kostas Prapoglou Video Portraits of Lady Gaga is the much talked about exhibition conceived and created by the multi-titled American sculptor, painter, stage director, playwright, choreographer, performer, and video artist Robert Wilson.

A terra - cotta bust by Simone Leigh, its gray - beige head topped by an Afro composed of blue porcelain cowrie shells, is a homage to a specific person: the choreographer Katherine Dunham, who incorporated African styles in modern American dance and opened a performing arts school in East St. Louis in the 1960s.

The sculpture, purchased from the Rauschenberg Foundation, was formerly in the personal collection of artist Robert Rauschenberg (1925 — 2008), who amassed an important collection of the work of three generations of American artists of the twentieth century, including visual and performing artists as well as choreographers.

The new protégés — a Swiss architect, a writer from Brazil, a Peruvian musician, a dancer from South Africa, an Argentinian / Spanish theatre artist, a film - maker from India and a Vietnamese visual artist — are being mentored by some of the most acclaimed figures in the contemporary arts worldwide: British architect Sir David Chipperfield, Israeli choreographer Ohad Naharin, Mexican film director Alfonso Cuarón, poet and novelist Mia Couto, from Mozambique, American composer Philip Glass, Canadian theatre director Robert Lepage and American performance and video artist Joan Jonas.

Research into Crimean Tatar choreography through an engagement with indigenous choreographers in Lviv, Ukraine expands the repertoire of this American - Ukrainian dance ensemble.

Gund's most recent projects include: Dispatches from Cleveland (CIFF, MSPIFF), a five chapter documentary that looks at the police murder of 12 - year - old Tamir Rice and shows how people joined together to vote out the prosecutor who didn't have their backs; Chavela (Berlinale, Hot Docs, Ambulante) a documentary about the life of the iconic Latin - American gender - bending diva, Chavela Vargas; and Born to Fly (SXSW, Full Frame), a documentary that pushes the boundaries between action and art, daring us to join choreographer Elizabeth Streb and her dancers in pursuit of human flight.

Jonah Bokaer was born to Tunisian and American parents and has been active as a choreographer since 2002.

«For this exhibition, Nick Mauss (b. 1980, New York, NY) explores the history of American modernist ballet, continuing a hybrid mode of working he has pursued for a decade in which the roles of curator, artist, choreographer, scholar, and performer converge.

The Sixties ballet boom was complemented by the introduction of American abstract modern dance to London, and a mushrooming of independent modern choreographers drawing on fashion and club music (Michael Clark), art and classical music (Richard Alston), movies (Matthew Bourne) and science (Wayne McGregor).

Between the 1930s to the 1950s, a distinctly American style of ballet emerged in New York, amid intense collaborations between critics, choreographers, dancers and visual artists.

Award - winning artist, choreographer, dancer, theater director and writer Bill T. Jones makes a rare Chicago appearance in a free presentation at the DuSable Museum of African American History, 740 East 56th Place (57th Street and South Cottage Grove Avenue), Friday evening, January 27, at 7 p.m., in association with the Alphawood Foundation's groundbreaking visual arts exhibition

For more than three decades, choreographer and dancer Bill T. Jones has made an incredible mark on American dance.

Elaine de Kooning's gestural portraits of friends and family were much admired during her lifetime, and included such well - known Americans as poets Frank O'Hara and Allen Ginsberg, critic Harold Rosenberg, choreographer Merce Cunningham and painters Willem de Kooning and Fairfield Porter.

The Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement has been attributed to American dancer and choreographer Meg Stuart.

Bokaer was born to Tunisian and American parents, and has been active as a choreographer since 2002.

In its two decades of existence, the list of staff and alumni at Black Mountain College would come to comprise an A to Z of the American avant - garde: artists Robert Rauschenberg, Cy Twombly and John Chamberlain, architect Buckminster Fuller, choreographer Merce Cunningham and composer John Cage.

What emerges was — and is — less a retrospective of a single choreographer than a representation of a diffuse network of like - minded artists who redefined American culture in the mid-twentieth century.

Yvonne Rainer, (born Nov. 24, 1934, San Francisco, Calif., U.S.), American avant - garde choreographer and filmmaker whose work in both disciplines often featured the medium's most fundamental elements rather than meeting conventional expectations.

On leaving Garage, one can still be part of do it Moscow by participating in events such as the «planetary dance» procession staged at the Krymskaya Embankment based on instructions by renowned choreographer and dancer Anna Halprin, or by responding to the challenging task set by Japanese artist Shimabuku to «make an animal smile» or one can dance with a large piece of chalk at the Park of Arts «Muzeon», as instructed by American artist Joan Jonas.

Led by choreographer and interdisciplinary artist Alex Romania, KLUTZ (World Premiere) is an exploration of destabilizing nonsense on the sick state of the American psyche.

Exploring one of the most important chapters in the history of contemporary art, The Bride and the Bachelors: Duchamp with Cage, Cunningham, Rauschenberg and Johns focuses on Marcel Duchamp's American legacy, tracing his relationship to four great modern masters — composer, John Cage, choreographer, Merce Cunningham, and visual artists Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns.

(Trisha Brown; born Patricia Ann Brown, Nov. 25, 1936, Aberdeen, Wash.; moved to New York, 1961; died Saturday [Mar. 18, 2017], San Antonio, aged 80; choreographer and exemplar of the founding generation of American postmodern dance; founded Trisha Brown Dance Company in 1970)

Led by choreographer and interdisciplinary artist Alex Romania, KLUTZ is an exploration of destabilizing nonsense on the sick state of the American psyche.

The first of these events will take place on Saturday March 24th with the interpretation of the work of the North American artist Rosemarie Castoro by the dancer and choreographer Carmelo Salazar.

Dancer, choreographer, filmmaker, and writer Yvonne Rainer (American, b. 1934) is one of the most influential artistic figures of the last 50 years.

Pennsylvania Ballet presented the American premiere of Kazimir's Colors by the contemporary Italian choreographer Mauro Bigonzetti.