Alwin Nikolais, recognized worldwide as one of the century’s most innovative dance artists, transformed the way audiences looked at dance from a kinetic drama to total visual theater. For the first ...

The Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company begins a national tour to pay tribute to Alwin Nikolais known for his visually astonishing modern dance, choreography, music and lighting. They come to the Vilar ...

gather for a retrospective look at his achievements. Nikolais (1910-1993) was among the boldest 20th-century visionaries, transforming the human body with props and masks and creating abstract ...

To say that Alwin Nikolais was before his time would be an understatement. It's also an understatement to label him strictly a choreographer ... To say that Alwin Nikolais was before his time would be ...

NEW YORK — The late choreographer Alwin Nikolais was so far ahead of his time that even as the artist's 100th birthday celebration comes and goes this week at the Joyce Theater, the world has not ...

Picture this: Human arms appear over the top of a slanting mirror wall about four feet high; as they stretch up, they acquire reflections joined to them at the armpit. Soon we’re watching wormy double ...

Now you see it, now you don’t. Magic. That’s how Alwin Nikolais, choreographer and master illusionist, made his mark on the world. And just because he’s no longer around is no reason to let that mark ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Lynn Needle, former Nikolais Dance Theatre soloist, will appear on the United Solo ...

As vaudeville shows go, it might have been conjured up by Ed Sullivan on an LSD binge. Right there onstage in living, quivering color, a formation of UFOs performed an aerial ballet. A chap in ...

Nikolais was the magician of mid-twentieth-century modern dance, setting shapes and colors in kaleidoscopic motion. The New York Public Library of the Performing Arts is celebrating the centennial of ...