Sentences with phrase «modern dancer»

The visual art from the 30s and 40s is paired with Barbara Morgan's photographs of African American modern dancer Pearl Primus and artistic storyboards from the film The Emperor Jones, starring Paul Robeson.

In fact, most professional modern dancers such as those in dance ensembles for musicals, stage performances and figure skating are rooted in ballet disciplines.

The models at Tracy Reese looked like ballerinas and modern dancers with undone hair and graphic eyeliner.

For her first major exhibition in North America, the AGO presents approximately 30 of her recent canvases, ranging from barren ocean seascapes to sharply defined silhouettes of modern dancers.

Used as a warm - up routine by modern dancers, this exercise loosens those areas so energy can flow more freely.

Abstract painting depicting modern dancers by American artist Purvis Young, acrylic on found particle board.

Modern and contemporary painters I admire include Matisse, Joan Mitchell, Helen Frankenthaler and Alan Shields, but also the color and light installations of James Turrell, the activist work of Suzanne Lacy and modern dancers such as Merce Cunningham.

Though I am a professionally trained modern dancer and an ordained minister, I have made many mistakes in seeking a place for dance in worship.

Reflecting on my own experiences as a mediocre - but - committed modern dancer taught me a lot about teaching chemistry.

From modern dancer to triathlete Katherine's journey in health and fitness has always returned to Pilates.

Andy Beck, a 40 year - old truck driver from New Jersey, would almost certainly agree.As a pair of female modern dancers performed onstage, Beckstood near the back, boogie - ingit down in his own unique way.

Barbara Morgan captures modern dancer Martha Graham as she stretches her body into a dramatic form.

Set in 1985 against the changing, cultural mecca of San Francisco, Test explores the life of a young, gay, modern dancer within the early, terse days of the AIDS epidemic.

Merce Cunningham was one of the most innovate and influential modern dancers and choreographers of the twentieth century.

«The dialogue between artists generates interesting thoughts about your own art form and can lead to new territories,» he says, referencing the work of pioneering modern dancer and choreographer Martha Graham, whose expressionist movements can be seen in tandem with the works on view in the space.

She has earned degrees and certifications in Psychology, Hypnotherapy, & Chemical Dependency Counseling, has 30 + years practicing and teaching the Art of Meditation, is a nationally recognized Fine Artist, a former professional Modern Dancer, a Certified Yoga Instructor, Reiki Master, founder of The Biofield Healing Immersion ™ Method, and Director of the Biofield Healing Institute ™.

Led by Alvin Ailey and a group of young African - American modern dancers, that performance changed forever the perception of American dance.

Ron started his confectionery adventures after a fifteen - year career as a professional modern dancer.

It was designed in part so that modern dancers can synchronise their steps with the music.

Prior to her yoga practice, she had a career as a modern dancer, performing and teaching as a member of the Trisha Brown Company.

Maria Luisa's teaching style draws both from the different yoga methodologies she has studied and also from her background as a modern dancer.

Jaime K. Ullman, a modern dancer with multiple Pilates training certifications, enjoys teaching students who want to work and don't complain.

The film digresses unnecessarily into the lives of an Israeli commando and his modern dancer girlfriend, juxtaposing the Entebbe raid with her performance as if the two events are somehow compatible.

Frances lives in New York, and is a modern dancer.

She's a modern dancer who is underemployed at a studio that doesn't think enough of her to upgrade her from apprentice.

Modern Dancer, North Dakota Study Group, with Prometheus Dance, Danny McCusker, Lise Brody, Margie Gillis

I'm thankful to have acquired a tough skin thanks to my previous profession as a modern dancer.

The difference is that Jean Erdman was always a modern dancer.

Molissa Fenley is a choreographer, modern dancer, and part - time associate professor of dance at Mills College.

Prudence Heward's first major professional success was in 1929 when she won first prizeat the Willingdon Arts Competition for Girl on a Hill (National Gallery of Canada), a work that depicts the modern dancer Louise McLea.

It's a realm he describes as «a fugitive world, made up of painters and poets and musicians, people who sold dope, modern dancers, far - out musicians.

Mauss loosened the conventional understanding of ballet's present - day lineage by selecting a group of 16 dancers with varying relationships to the form, from professional ballerinas to modern dancers.

Every composition is carefully constructed, and Otto - Knapp's subjects are pioneering women artists, modern dancers, interiors, landscapes, seascapes and avant - garde stage designs.

In Palucca, an enlarged and polarized historical image of a modern dancer embodies the obsolescence of the negative, for so long considered the «ground» of the photograph.

From my years as a modern dancer and choreographer, and then as a professional ballroom dancer, I never tire of exploring the body moving through space.

The nonprofit organization Artis funds research trips to Israel for artists and curators, and it was on one of these expeditions that the curator Prem Krishnamurthy was taken with the work of Noa Eshkol — a modern dancer who developed a rigorously mathematical movement notation system and later made dynamic tapestry collages from found scraps of fabric.

Merce Cunningham, (born April 16, 1919, Centralia, Washington, U.S. — died July 26, 2009, New York, New York), American modern dancer and choreographer who developed new forms of abstract dance movement.

Trisha Brown, 1936 — , American modern dancer and choreographer, b. Aberdeen, Wash..

Merce Cunningham, American modern dancer and choreographer who developed new forms of abstract dance movement.

Martha Graham was an American modern dancer and choreographer.

For example, you might identify yourself as an «Experienced Jazz and Modern Dancer» to ensure you attract the right employment offers.