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 ...

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 ...

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).

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 ...

1 See Which Celebs Are Coming to Broadway in Spring 2026 At the Abrons, the Ririe-Woodbury Company will present "Tensile Involvement" (1955) in which the dancers manipulate a horizontal Maypole of ...

Happy 100th birthday to the guy who taught Pilobolus and Cirque de Soleil a thing or two. To celebrate, four of Alwin Nikolais’ magical spectacles are playing this week at the Joyce — dances that seem ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

1 Review Roundup: See What the Critics Thought of DOG DAY AFTERNOON on Broadway At the Abrons, the Ririe-Woodbury Company will present "Tensile Involvement" (1955) in which the dancers manipulate a ...