Sentences with phrase «of modern dancers»

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.

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The modern Super Bowl halftime show as we know it started in 1991 with New Kids on the Block (previous shows featured a theme with marching bands and various performance groups), and it's stayed relatively consistent since: A pop star (or stars) takes over the field with props, backup dancers, probably pyrotechnics, and possibly even a live band, and goes through a rundown of their hits in a handful of minutes.

No matter what you may think of them, and personally I see the modern forward as something close to a ballet dancer with father issues, any team with hopes of trophy success needs at least one star man up front to put the ball in the back of the net.

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

November 25: Join Wampanoag Nation Singers and Dancers as they share stories of history and modern culture in a live performance, culminating with a full audience powwow to honor Native American Heritage Month (Boston)

Bollyx — which will have you embracing your inner Bollywood dancer — is an amazing place to start, with a mix of modern and traditional beats.

Ms. Pirtle has co-authored a book with Sally Fallon and Dr. John D. Turner called Performance without Pain, which was published in 2006 by New Trends that focuses on the modern dietary influences in common inflammatory and degenerative conditions in musicians, athletes, dancers and the general public, and the solutions found in a diet of nutrient - dense foods.

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 ™.

Gena Rho - Smith began practicing Yoga in 1998 after a professional career as a modern dancer, most notably as a member of the Trisha Brown Company where she performed and taught internationally.

Bodices survive into modern times in the traditional or revived folk dress of many European countries (see, for example, Austrian dirndl or the Aboyne dress worn by Scottish highland dancers).

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 is a dancer by trade and it is because of this she is able to pirouette through the streets (to David Bowie «s Modern Love, no less) rather than lurch through them, only gradually realising that her friends have all outgrown her and that she needs to adapt to survive.

Korean dancers present a modern interpretation of a traditional dance while a solo dancer performs Spring Dance of Nightingale.»

But what about dancer and performance artist Loie Fuller, the innovator of modern dance who helped propel Duncan to superstardom in the early 20th century?

Reeves is state - of - the - art action hero as modern dancer, and he's never been a more compelling screen presence.

A dancer performs a blend of traditional and modern Persian dance at last week's HGSE Multicultural Festival.

An eloquent photo biography of a woman who was told she was too old, too short, too heavy, and too plain to become a professional dancer; yet, through determination and talent, she went on to revolutionize the world of modern dance.

Marysia Swimwear — Created by surfer and former ballet dancer, Marysia Dobrzanska Reeves, this line of swimwear has perfectly executed silhouettes in premium fabrics with a modern, fresh and effortless style.

Degas was infatuated with ballet dancers — both their form and costumes — making them the anchor of his lifelong work, so who better to give his work a modern twist than Copeland?

Belgian dancer and choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker introduced her postmodern dance work «Violin Phase» — the third of four movements set to the music of Steve Reich — at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Arts on Monday and Tuesday.A square - shaped sheet of white sand was placed in the middle of a white cuboid space while the late afternoon sunlight streamed in.

BOOK The Museum of Modern Art publishes «Ralph Lemon: MoMA Dance,» the first monograph on dancer and choreographer Ralph Lemon.

Stuart Comer (formerly Curator: Film at Tate Modern, London, now Chief Curator of Media and Performance Art at MoMA) commented that his section of the Biennial «acknowledges the complexity of contemporary art practice by including many types of cultural producers: editorial collectives, artist - curators, activists, musicians, poets, dancers, filmmakers, painters, sculptors and photographers.

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

Ms. Abramovic, a New York - based Serbian artist, became an international star when live performances featuring naked dancers accompanied her 2010 retrospective «The Artist is Present» at the Museum of Modern Art.

Inspired early in his career by modern dance — notably through his relationship with members of New York City's influential Judson Church dancers — and Japanese Zen gardens, the artist sought to create works that engage viewers in movement, taking in his large - scale sheet - metal pieces by navigating the space around them.

Belgian dancer and choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker introduced her postmodern dance work «Violin Phase» — the third of four movements set to the music of Steve Reich — at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Arts on Monday and Tuesday.

Scrambling Greek and Egyptian myths of cyclical resuscitation and regeneration, a hieroglyph of Nekhebet appears on the bottom; she is the queen and nurturing guide of the underworld, giving rise to tiny flying Gorgons, numerous Greek dildo dancers and modern acrobats whirling and performing backflips.

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.

These patterns are drawn from the artist's ongoing exploration of the influential movement theories of Hungarian dancer and choreographer Rudolf Laban, who figured prominently in the development of modern dance in the first half of the twentieth century.

Today performed and taught by the circle of dancers with whom she closely practiced — the Noa Eshkol Chamber Dance Group — Eshkol's dance compositions give form to the notation system and represent a significant chapter of modern dance history that has remained nearly undiscovered.

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.

Issue contents: A Century of Modern Art: The Nasher Collection; Elizabeth Murray Exhibit Premiers in Dallas; Corporate Membership Report; Cover Article: Degas Dancers; Looking at Art: The Classical Tradition; Museum and PM League Reports; Appointment of Adjunct Curator; Recent DMA Acquisitions

One of the great sculptures of the modern age, Petite Danseuse de Quatorze Ans depicts a defiant 14 - year - old dancer — and comes with a # 10m - # 15m estimate

This exhibition of the pioneering dancer and choreographer Loïe Fuller reveals her to be a thoroughly modern innovator

Included among Saar's numerous exhibitions are: Betye Saar: Extending the Frozen Moment, a major traveling exhibit organized by the University of Michigan Museum of Art (2005); Betye Saar: Still Tickin», Museum Het Domein, Sittard, The Netherlands; Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ (2015); Betye Saar Black White / Blend, Roberts & Tilton, Culver City, CA (2016); Uneasy Dancer, Fondazione Prada, Milan, Italy (2016), Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power, Tate Modern, London; Crystal Bridges Museum of Art, Bentonville, AR; Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY (2017 - 2018); We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965 - 85, California African American Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA; Albright - Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY (2017 - 2018); and Outliers and American Vanguard Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA (2018 - 2019).

The faces of ballet, modern, or hip hop dancers are shot from several dozen centimetres away during their dance and are presented in an unnatural, hyper - realistic way, revealing details and emotions normally hidden from the viewer.

Statues of the Little Dancer — such as the one in the Tate Modern — were made after the death of the great French artist, based on a wax sculpture he worked and reworked over many years.

Tate Modern, London Painter, designer, tireless tango - dancer and coat - maker to the stars, Sonia Delaunay tore through the worlds of art and fashion like a whirlwind

The film, which forms the centrepiece of the exhibition at Modern Art Oxford, is based around the recording of a live choreography event involving amateur Romanian dancers and acting students in Iasi, Romania during the Periferic 8 Biennial of Contemporary Art in October 2008.

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 genre has been championed by several artists, including: Allen Jones (b. 1937), see Dancers (1987, Cottons Atrium, London Bridge City, London); Richard Serra (b. 1939), see The Matter of Time (2004, Guggenheim Bilbao); Jonathan Borofsky (b. 1943), see Walking Man (1994 - 5, Paula Cooper Gallery, NY); and Anish Kapoor (b. 1954), see Marsyas (2002, Turbine Hall, Tate Modern, London).

Modern stone carvers have included Jean - Baptiste Carpeaux (1827 - 1875), famous for his wonderfully animated Dance (1865 - 9, Musee d'Orsay); Constantin Brancusi (1876 - 1957), who produced The Kiss (1907, Kunsthalle, Hamburg); Jacob Epstein (1880 — 1959) responsible for the evocative Adam (1938, Harewood House); the Gothic - inspired German expressionist sculptor Wilhelm Lehmbruck (1881 - 1919), creator of Kneeling Woman (1911, MOMA); Henri Gaudier - Brzeska (1891 - 1915), noted for the Red Stone Dancer (1913, Tate Gallery); Henry Moore (1898 - 1986), noted for Mother and Child (1924 - 5, Manchester Art Gallery); the painters Andre Derain (1880 - 1954), famous for his Standing Nude (1907, Pompidou Centre) and Modigliani (1884 - 1920), who always preferred to carve directly in stone; and others.

Chris Dercon, former Director of Volksbühne Berlin and Tate Modern, presents a keynote lecture on the occasion of featuring selected works by pioneering dancer, choreographer, filmmaker and writer Yvonne Rainer at IMMA.

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.

The exhibition opens with Sun Xun's Mythological Time, a site - specific installation that weaves visual motifs — a dragon, an opera dancer, a one - winged chunk of coal — into a modern day cave painting.

Linda Phenix, Chrysalis artistic director, will direct the dancers in the progression of works that exposes the close relationship between concepts inherent in both modern dance and modern art such as dimension, symmetry, and color.

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

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

2011 Elgiz: 10 A Decade of Commitment to Contemporary Art in Turkey, Istanbul, Turkey Now: obras de La Colleccion Jumex, Centro Cultural Hospicio Cabanas, Guadalajara, Mexico Why I never became a dancer — Sammlung Goetz at Haus der Kunst, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany Sculpture Now, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland In the Name of the Artist — American Contemporary Art from the Astrup Fearnley Collection, Biennale pavilion in the Parque do Ibirapuera, Sao Paulo, Brazil Paradise Lost, Istanbul Museum of Modern Art, Istanbul, Turkey Pasajes, Vlajes por el híper - espacio, Laboral, Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, Gijón, Spain The Expanded Cinema, Moscow Museum of Art and Center of Contemporary Culture, Moscow, Russia

A graduate of the University of Southern California, she has previously worked in non-profit administration for the modern dance company Los Angeles Choreographers & Dancers, in the film world as an art department and construction coordinator, and in interior design as a project manager.