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Choreography is the art or practice of designing sequences of movements of physical bodies (or their depictions) in which motion or form or both are specified. Choreography may also refer to the design itself. A choreographer is one who creates choreographies by practising the art of choreography, a process known as choreographing.
Ninette de Valois. Dame Ninette de Valois OM CH DBE (born Edris Stannus; 6 June 1898 – 8 March 2001) was an Irish-born British [1] dancer, teacher, choreographer, and director of classical ballet. Most notably, she danced professionally with Serge Diaghilev 's Ballets Russes, later establishing the Royal Ballet, one of the foremost ballet ...
Merce Cunningham, who died on July 26 aged 90, was a colossus of 20th-century choreography; his career in dance, which lasted more than 60 years, began when, as a Seattle-based dance student in 1939, he was invited by Martha Graham to join her company in New York. ^ "Merce Cunningham Dance Company". November 9, 2017.
Doris Batcheller Humphrey (October 17, 1895 – December 29, 1958) was an American dancer and choreographer of the early twentieth century. Along with her contemporaries Martha Graham and Katherine Dunham, Humphrey was one of the second generation modern dance pioneers who followed their forerunners – including Isadora Duncan, Ruth St. Denis, and Ted Shawn – in exploring the use of breath ...
In it, Hay emphasizes conceptual art narratives underlining the minimal choreographic process of her dance creation. In 1976 Hay moved from Vermont to Austin, Texas, where she began developing a set of choreographic practices she called playing awake. This choreographic method engaged with the movement of untrained performers.
Martha Graham (May 11, 1894 – April 1, 1991) [1] was an American modern dancer and choreographer, whose style, the Graham technique, reshaped American dance and is still taught worldwide. [2] Graham danced and taught for over seventy years. She was the first dancer to perform at the White House, travel abroad as a cultural ambassador, and ...
Alwin Nikolais (November 25, 1910 – May 8, 1993) was an American choreographer, dancer, composer, musician, and teacher. [1] He had created the Nikolais Dance Theatre, [2] and was known for his self-designed innovative costume, lighting and production design. [3][4] Nikolais gave the world a new vision of dance and was named the "father of ...
José Arcadio Limón was born January 12, 1908, in Culiacán, [3] Mexico, the eldest of twelve children. In 1915, his family moved to Los Angeles, California. [3] After graduating from Lincoln High School (Lincoln Heights, California), Limón attended UCLA as an art major. In 1928 he moved and studied at the New York School of Design.