Laban Centre Archive c1948-2005

Fagan, Garth, 1940-

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Choreographer Garth Fagan, was born Gawain Garth Fagan on May 3, 1940 in Kingston, Jamaica to Louise Walker and S.W. Fagan, a chief education officer of Jamaica. As a teenager, Fagan studied dance with Ivy Baxter and the Jamaica National Dance Company. He attended Excelsior High School in St. Andrews, Jamaica, and performed at the inauguration ceremony for Cuban President Fidel Castro in 1959. After moving to Detroit, Michigan in 1960, Fagan danced with the Detroit Contemporary Dance Company and...

Cunningham, Merce, 1919-2009

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Merce Cunningham is a choreographer. He started his career as a dancer with Martha Graham's company, and then left to start his own company. The company, which was created over 50 years ago, is still flourishing. Merce Cunningham was born in Centralia, Washington. He first started formal dance training at the Cornish Institute of Allied Arts in Seattle. From 1939 to 1945 he was a soloist in the Martha Graham Company. While performing with Martha Graham, Cunningham bega...

Davies, Siobhan., b 1950

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Walker, Fin., fl 2005-

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Laban Centre, 1997-2002

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MacDougal, Lorn., fl 1985-

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Bonnie Bird Choreography Fund, 1984-

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Baldwin, Mark., fl 1975-

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Silvestrini, Luca., fl 2005-

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North, Marion., fl 1973-2003 Principal, Laban 1972-2003

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Bramley, Ian., b 1968

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Laban Art of Movement Centre, 1954-1975

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Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, 2005-

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Skoog, Mats., fl 2005-

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Art of Movement Studio, 1946-1975

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Laban

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Mackrell, Judith., fl 1990-

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Burrows, Jonathan., fl 2002-

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Alston, Richard., b 1948

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Strickler, Bettina., fl 2005-

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Bonachela, Rafael., fl 2002-

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Laban Centre for Movement and Dance

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Hopps, Stuart., b 1942

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McGregor, Wayne., b 1970

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Cage, John, 1912-1992

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John Cage was born in Los Angeles in 1912. He studied composition with Richard Buhlig, Henry Cowell, Adolph Weiss, and Arnold Schoenberg. In 1938 he began working as an accompanist for dance and a teacher at the Cornish School of the Arts in Seattle, Washington. It was here that he first met the dancer Merce Cunningham, with whom he would have a lifelong working relationship. Together they were responsible for a number of radical innovations in musical and choreographic compositions, such as the...

Blake, Steve., fl 1985-

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Anderson, Lea., b 1959

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Bourne, Matthew., b 1960

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Vardimon, Jasmin., b 1971

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