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Almanac Dance Circus Theater www.thealmanac.us/  Co-founded by Ben Grinberg (2014 Artist Resident at Bearnstow), the Almanac Dance Circus Theater forges ensemble-driven performances that fuse acrobatics, storytelling, and daring physicality. |
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The Alwin Nikolais and Murray Louis Dance Collection at Ohio University Ohio University, in Athens, is the home of the Alwin Nikolais and Murray Louis Dance Collection. The collection includes films, videos, photographs, manuscripts, posters, administrative documents, awards, programs, reviews, and musical recordings. |
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Amazing Grace Circus amazinggracecircus.org/ Carlo Pellegrini (Nikolais Dance Theatre, 1975–'78), motivational speaker, business strategist and master juggler, is co-founder and Artistic Director. |
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Art of Motion www.artofmotion.org Art of Motion, Inc. is a non-profit educational and cultural organization dedicated to teaching and presenting dance, theatre, vocal music, and literary and visusal art projects. Lynn Lesniak Needle (former dancer with the Nikolais Dance Theater) is the founder/artistic director. |
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Bearnstow on Parker Pond bearnstow.org A summer place in Mount Vernon, Maine, offering workshops in dance and the arts, founded in 1946 by Ruth Grauert, who worked with Alwin Nikolais for more than 40 years. The camp is now directed by Bebe Miller, who was child camper and took classes wirh Murray Louis at the Henry Street Playhouse in New York City. |
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Bebe Miller Company bebemillercompany.org Bebe Miller has created dances for over 20 years. In 1985 she formed the Bebe Miller Company, which has performed at major dance centers throughout the U.S. and abroad. The recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, three Bessie awards for choreography, and artist fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts and the Ohio Arts Council, Bebe Miller is a Full Professor in Dance at Ohio State University and is Co-Director of Bearnstow on Parker Pond. |
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Beverly Blossom Foundation beverlyblossom.org To sustain, enhance and promote the legacy of choreographer, dancer and educator Beverly Blossom in ways that are of educational and artistic benefit to dancers, choreographers, scholars and the public. |
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Dudley Brooks: Run For Your Life ! . . . it’s a dance company ! www.runforyourlife.org Run For Your Life!’s mission is to make people laugh. Their abstract comedy has no malice or agenda, and their satirical dances point up universal human (or non-human) foibles. Dudley Brooks, Artistic Director, danced with the Nikolais Dance Theatre from 1978 to 1980. |
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Eric Dunlap: Forward Motion Theater Eric Dunlap’s Facebook page Eric Dunlap spent his formative years as a dancer with the Nikolais/Louis Dance Company, becoming well versed in Nik¹s movement technique and pioneering approach to light and dance works. |
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Gerald Otte’s Modern Dance Page www.gerotte.com/Modern_Dance/modern_dance.html Gerald Otte joined the Nikolais Dance Theatre in 1969 and toured nationally and internationally until 1985. He served as AGMA President for six years and was recently honored as a Fulbright Scholar/Senior Specialist. |
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Henning Rübsam: SENSEDANCE SENSEDANCE Facebook page Henning Rübsam has toured internationally with the Limón Dance Company, Duncan Macfarland’s DanceArtCompany, and was a member of Alwin Nikolais and Murray Louis Dance. He is the Artistic Director and Choreographer for the New York City–based modern dance company SENSEDANCE, which he founded in 1991. |
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The Invader — A description of the sailing yacht www.charterworld.com/ and a description of her restoration The Invader is the schooner on which Louise Omwake Eckerson made her Pacific voyage in 1941 (see Voyage of the Invader on this site). |
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Janis Brenner & Dancers www.janisbrenner.com Led by award-winning dancer, choreographer, singer Janis Brenner, this well-known New York company has toured throughout the U.S., Asia and Europe, including, most recently, Indonesia and Russia. Ms. Brenner’s works cover a broad range: virtuosic and musical, intense and “emotionally authentic,” vocal/movement collaborations with Meredith Monk, and multidisciplinary and intergenerational. The company is known for the caliber of its dancers and its multifaceted teaching residencies throughout the world. |
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Jody Oberfelder Dance Projects www.jodyoberfelder.com After studying Graham, Limon, and Cunningham for two years at SUNY Purchase, Jody Oberfelder studied with Alwin Nikolais and Murray Louis, and then danced with Phyllis Lamhut (1976–1978), and with Pooh Kaye, Charles Dennis, Meredith Monk, and Ping Chong. She has shown her choreography in New York at Dixon Place, Lincoln Center's Clark Studio Theater, The Flea Theater, Joyce SoHo, The Howl Festival, PS 122, Judson Church, as well as internationally in festivals in Europe and Asia. |
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Maida Withers Dance Construction Company maidadance.com Maida Withers Dance Construction Company was established in Washington, DC, in 1974 to create and produce original dance and multimedia works for stage, sites and video. Technology, multimedia and new media are of on-going interest to the company. |
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Mimi Garrard Dance Theatre mimigarrarddance.com Mimi Garrard performed in NDT and MLDC from 1963 to 1965. The Mimi Garrard Dance Company, was established in 1965, the year that Mimi Garrard presented her first full-length concert at the Henry Street Playhouse. |
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Nikolais-Louis Foundation for Dance www.nikolaislouis.org The official Web site of the Nikolais-Louis Foundation for Dance, Inc. |
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Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company www.ririewoodbury.com Long-time Nikolais associate Joan Woodbury co-founded with Shirley Ririe the Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company in Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1964. The company, already with many Nikolais works in its repertory, was recently selected as the company to house the works of Alwin Nikolais by the Nikolais/Louis Foundation for Dance. |
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Sara Pearson & Patrik Widrig: PEARSONWIDRIG DANCETHEATER www.pearsonwidrig.org Since 1987, PEARSONWIDRIG DANCETHEATER has gained an international following for work that transforms the familiar into the mysterious, the subversive, and the intimate. Sara Pearson performed with NDT (74–75) and MLDC (75–79) and continued to teach at the Nikolais/Louis school until 1987. |
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Suzy McDermaid Fridell and Squire Fridell Glen Lyon Vineyards and Winery Suzy McDermaid Fridell (Nikolais ’69–’78), along with her husband Squire, established a vineyard and winery in Sonoma Vally, California 34 years ago. |
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Tandy Beal & Company tandybeal.com/hereafterhere Artistic Director of Star Stuff Productions, Tandy Beal is choreographer, performer, teacher, writer and dreamer—and performs internationally as a solo artist and with her ensemble. She danced for the Shah of Iran as a member of the Nikolais Dance Theatre. See also Tandy’s musician husband Jon Scoville’s www.albertsbicycle.com. Jon is Co-Artistic of Tandy Beal and Company, composes for the company, and has composed scores for both Alwin Nikolais and Murray Louis. |
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Wanda Pruska: Nature’s Paradise, Marigot Bay, St. Lucia. Vacations and Eco-Tours https://www.facebook.com/naturesparadise/ Wanda Pruska-Wallace (Henry Street Playhouse and NDT 1960–1983, MLDC 1971–1975) and her husband, David Wallace, now operate a resort called Nature’s Paradise on St. Lucia in the Caribbean. |