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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Centenary of Alwin Nikolais's birth is being celebrated in 10 cities world-wide with New York engagements at Nikolais's original artistic home, the Henry Street Playhouse (now the Abrons Arts ...

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 ...

Alwin Nikolais, a choreographer, designer, composer of electronic music and pioneer of multi-media dance, died on Saturday at Cabrini Medical Center in Manhattan. He was 82 and lived in Manhattan. The ...

Books from the 1970s on dance, illustrated in black and white and (sparingly) in colour, always devote at least one of those colour pages to Alwin Nikolais. They had to: he choreographed as much for ...

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 ...