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White's Lichtung (1991) on the Kulturweg Baden-Wettingen-Neuenhof, photographed in 2011. Gillian Louise White (born 20 June 1939, in Orpington) is a British-born sculptor who currently resides and works in Leibstadt, Switzerland. [1] [2] She is renowned for her large-scale public works and art commissions for buildings. In 1969, shortly before ...
Gillian White (lawyer) (1936-2016), English professor of international law Gillian White (sculptor) (born 1939), English sculptor based in Switzerland Gillian White (writer) (1945-2020), English novelist and journalist
[6] [7] [8] Quizlet's blog, written mostly by Andrew in the earlier days of the company, claims it had reached 50,000 registered users in 252 days online. [9] In the following two years, Quizlet reached its 1,000,000th registered user. [10] Until 2011, Quizlet shared staff and financial resources with the Collectors Weekly website. [11]
The art of dance in women also declined from the Song dynasty onward as a result of the increasing popularity of footbinding, [14] a practice that ironically may have originated from dancing when a dancer wrapped her feet so she may dance ballet-fashion. [15] [16] The best-known of the Chinese traditional dances are the dragon dance and lion ...
Postmodern dance is a 20th century concert dance movement that came into popularity in the early 1960s. While the term postmodern took on a different meaning when used to describe dance, the dance form did take inspiration from the ideologies of the wider postmodern movement, which "sought to deflate what it saw as overly pretentious and ultimately self-serving modernist views of art and the ...
Bob Fosse, famed choreographer of stage and film, did uncredited choreography work on White Christmas, which may help explain why so many of the dance sequences are so memorable. 6. Vera-Ellen was ...
Taglioni was known as the "Christian Dancer," as her image was light and pure (associated with her role as the sylph in La Sylphide). She was trained primarily by her father, Filipo Taglioni. In 1834, Fanny Elssler arrived at the Paris Opera and became known as the "Pagan Dancer," because of the fiery qualities of the Cachucha dance that made ...
Gillian Barbara Pyrke was born in Bromley, Kent, and was a precocious dance talent from an early age, teaming with her childhood friend Beryl Grey while still at school, and dancing to blot out the tragedy of the violent death of her mother on 8 July 1939 in Coventry (as a result of a car crash along with Edward Turner's first wife), when Lynne was just 13 years old.