Robert Alexander Papers 1962-1987

Hay, Deborah, 1941-

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Rockettes (Dance company)

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The Rockettes are a dance company. Founded in 1925 in St. Louis, Missouri, since 1932, they have performed at Radio City Music Hall in Manhattan, New York City since 1932. ...

Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997

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Irwin Allen Ginsberg was born on June 3, 1926 in Newark, New Jersey to Louis and Naomi (Levy) Ginsberg. American poet, author, lecturer, and teacher who was one of the core members of the Beat Generation of American author's in the 1950's and early 1960's along with Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, and Neal Cassady. He died of complications of liver cancer on April 6, 1997. From the description of Allen Ginsberg papers, 1937-1994. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 462019390 ...

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater

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The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (AAADT) is a modern dance company based in New York City. It was founded in 1958 by choreographer and dancer Alvin Ailey. It is made up of 32 dancers, led by artistic director Robert Battle and associate artistic director Matthew Rushing. Alvin Ailey and a group of young Black modern dancers first performed at New York's 92nd Street Young Men's Hebrew Association (92nd Street Y), under the name Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (AAADT), in March 1958. A...

Forti, Simone

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Overlie, Mary

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Jacobowitz, Diane

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Beckerman, Ann

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Woodberry, David

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Glass, Philip.

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Gordon, David, 1936-

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Ustinov, Peter

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Sherman, Stuart

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Kushner, Robert 1949-

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Selmier, Dean

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Chong, Ping

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Ping Chong is an interdisciplinary theatre director, choreographer, videographer and installation artist. He studied visual arts, dance, and filmmaking, and originally intended to work in film. His career began in the early 1970s when he joined Meredith Monk's performance company. Monk, a pioneer of experimental and interdisciplinary theater, steered Chong in that direction; his collaborations with Monk included The Travelogue Series and, later, The Games . Since 1972, h...

Dunn, Douglas

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Epithet: poet British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000974.0x0002a1 ...

Atwood, Geri

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Kast, Maggie

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Van Riper, Peter

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Paxton, Steve

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Gardner, Barbara

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Antin, Eleanor

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Eleanor Antin (1935- ) is a performance and installation artist in San Diego, Calif. Judith Olch Richards (1947- ) is a former executive director of iCI in New York, N.Y. From the description of Oral history interview with Eleanor Antin, 2009 May 8-9 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 636358556 Eleanor Antin was born in New York City on February 27, 1935 with the maiden name of Fineman. She studied at the High School of Music and Art in New York City and recei...

Reitz, Dana

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Grand Union (Performance group)

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The Grand Union, also know as the Rio Grand Union, came into being in the fall of 1970. A collective of friends, choreographers, and performers, its early members included Trisha Brown, Douglas Dunn, Nancy Green, Yvonne Rainer, Steve Paxton, David Gordon and Barbara Lloyd. The collective dissolved in May 1976 and became the New Grand Union. The members of the New Grand Union were Barbara Dilley, Douglas Dunn, David Gordon, Nancy Lewis and Steve Paxton. The New Grand Union stopped soliciting date...

Frank, Carter

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McLean, Bruce, 1944-....

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Jaroslow, Risa

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Taylor, Paul, 1930-....

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Dunas, William

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Waits, Tom, 1949-....

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Kroesen, Jill

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De Groat, Andrew

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Lord, Carolyn

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Monk, Meredith

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Meredith Monk (born New York, NY, Nov. 20, 1942) is a composer, singer, director/choreographer and creator of new opera, music theater works, films and installations. She pioneered what is now called "extended vocal technique" and "interdisciplinary performance." During a career that spans more than 40 years she has been acclaimed by audiences and critics as a major creative force in the performing arts. Since graduating from Sarah Lawrence College in 1964, Monk has rece...

Roberts, Erik

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Zaloom, Paul

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Kipper Kids (Group of artists)

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The performance art duo Kipper Kids was a collaborative project by Brian Routh (1948-2018, England) and Martin von Haselberg (b. 1949, Argentina) active from approximately 1971 to 1982. Routh and von Haselberg met at East 15 Acting School in London, England, in 1970. Following their expulsion from the school for disruption, the pair went to Germany, developing the character of "Harry Kipper" near a railway station in Frankfurt. They then traveled around Germany and to Paris, France, performin...

Setterfield, Valda

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Alexander, Robert, 1947-

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Robert Alexander was born in Brooklyn on the 21st of November 1943. He spent most of his early life there, eventually working as a freelance photographer and photographer's assistant from various addresses, including Remsen Street in the downtown area of the city. He studied Art History at the University of Pennsylvania from 1961 to 1965 (but did not graduate) and did brief stints at the New School for Social Research (film production) and at the School of Visual Arts (16mm film edi...

Banes, Sally

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Rudner, Sara

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Malpede, John

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Squat Theatre (Theater group)

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Squat Theatre began in 1969 as the Kassak Studio in Budapest, Hungary. Pressured by the Hungarian government because of its political and aesthetic radicalism, the group left Hunagry in 1976. Calling itself Elephant Theatre, the troupe performed in western Europe. After a year, the group emigrated to the United States where they adobted the name Squat Theatre. In 1978 Squat received an Obie Award for its original piece entitled Pig, Child, Fire. From the description of Squat Theatre ...

Big Apple Circus.

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Cummings, Blondell

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Brown, Trisha, 1936-....

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Halprin, Anna

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Anna Halprin (b. 1920) is a pioneering dancer and choreographer of the post-modern dance movement. She enrolled in the University of Wisconsin in the late 1930s where she studied with Margaret D'Houbler and developed a strong interest in collaboration and improvisation in response to more formalized modern dance techniques. Over her long career, Halprin has stretched the perceived boundaries of dance to include theater, visual art, myth, ritual, and individual and collective healing. She founded...

Smith, Nancy Stark

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No Theatre (Theater group)

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Rainer, Yvonne, 1934-

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Choreographer, dancer, filmmaker and writer, Yvonne Rainer is celebrated as a pioneer of postmodern dance. Her often experimental and challenging work has been widely influential throughout her long career. From the description of Yvonne Rainer papers, 1933-2006, bulk 1959-2001. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 669289563 Biographical / Historical Note Choreographer, dancer, filmmaker and writer, Yvonne Rain...

Cumming, Ann

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Goldblum, Jeff, 1952-....

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Boyle, Peter, 1933-

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Landry, Richard

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We, Ellen

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Tanaka, Min

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King, Kenneth, 1948-

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Kenneth King is an American postmodern dancer-choreographer and writer who was born in Freeport, New York on January 11, 1943. He received a B.A. in religion and philosophy from Antioch College in 1965. King studied dance at the Martha Graham School, Ballet Arts, and with Merce Cunningham, Paul Sanasardo, Mia Slavenska, and Syvilla Fort. His first New York dance was presented in 1964, with the title cup/saucer/two dancers/radio; it has been called the first “Pop Art” dan...

Kaye, Pooh

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Whitman, Sylvia, 1961-

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Katz, Alex, 1927-....

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Painter; New York City. From the description of Alex Katz papers, 1953-1982. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 78054299 Artist. From the description of Reminiscences of Alex Katz : oral history, 1978. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122343168 Painter (New York, N.Y.). From the description of Alex Katz interview, 1969 Oct. 20 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83634712 Alex Katz (1927- ) ...

Ailey, Alvin, 1931-1989

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Alvin Ailey (b. Jan. 5, 1931, Rogers, TX–d. Dec. 1, 1989, New York, NY) was an African-American choreographer and activist who founded the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in New York City. He is credited with popularizing modern dance and revolutionizing African-American participation in 20th-century concert dance. In 1977, Ailey was awarded the Spingarn Medal from the NAACP. He received the Kennedy Center Honors in 1988. In 2014, President Barack Obama selected Ailey to be a posthumous recip...

Beardsley, Bettany

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Joyce, Donald

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Chuma, Yoshiko

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Foreman, Laura

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Laura Foreman was a dancer, choreographer, visual artist, writer and director of dance at New School University. She lived and worked in New York City from the mid-1960s until her death. Foreman worked primarily in dance for the first decade of her time in Manhattan, operating both the Laura Foreman Dance Company and Composers' and Choreographers' Theatre with her husband, John Watts. In the late 1970s she began working in more abstract performance and visual art. Perhaps her most well-known pie...

Perez, Rudy

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Biographical Note Rudy Perez was born in Spanish Harlem and attended New York's High School of Music and Arts, where he studied piano and voice. After graduating, he studied dance under Martha Graham, Mary Anthony, and Merce Cunningham, and was a frequent performer at the Judson Dance Theatre. Perez founded the Rudy Perez Dance Theatre in 1967. From 1968-1978 Perez held the position of artist-in-residence at Marymount Manhattan College and tr...

Gordh, Bill

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Childs, Lucinda

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