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 ...

For nearly sixty years, Alwin Nikolais was modern dance’s pioneer of multimedia. Among his best known performances are “Masks, Props, and Mobiles” (1953), “Totem” (1960), and “Count Down” (1979).

Would there, could there have been a Pilobolus, MOMIX, Mummenschanz, Philippe Decoufflé, Jose Montalvo, if Alwin Nikolais hadn't, in the 1950s, dared to turn the human body into a work of abstract ...

1 Broadway Performers Push Back on 'Show Must Go On' Expectations Amid Severe Weather At the Abrons, the Ririe-Woodbury Company will present "Tensile Involvement" (1955) in which the dancers ...

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 ...

Ten years after the death of multimedia dance wizard Alwin Nikolais, the Ririe-Woodbury Dance Co. of Salt Lake City is touring a Nikolais retrospective that makes his mastery of choreography, ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Dance Review By Roslyn Sulcas Alwin Nikolais was the magician of dance, the forerunner of now wildly popular companies like Pilobolus and Momix and a ...

What: Nikolais Dance Theater, performed by the Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company. When: 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 21; STARS performance for kids at 10 a.m. Where: Vilar Performing Arts Center, 68 Avondale ...

The modern dance choreographers Alwin Nikolais (Nov. 25, 1910 – May 8, 1993) and Murray Louis (b. Nov. 4, 1926) jointly and individually led many companies, including the Playhouse Dance Company, the ...

Before MTV, there was Alwin Nikolais. The choreographer, composer and designer, who died in 1993, pioneered the use of lighting, sound and movement to create a "total theatrical environment." Onstage ...

Modern dance isn’t giving up without a fight. Last year’s announcement that the Merce Cunningham Dance Company would disband in the wake of its founder’s death has prompted much hand-wringing within ...