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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 may refer to: Gillian White (actress) (born 1975), American actress; Gillian White (lawyer) (1936-2016), English professor of international law;
Rona Bailey (1914–2005) – drama and dance practitioner, educationalist and activist; Jan Bolwell; Yvonne Cartier (c. 1930–2014) – ballet dancer, choreographer, teacher of mime and movement, based in Paris; Lisa Densem; Lusi Faiva – known for physically integrated dance; Sarah-Jayne Howard – dancer and choreographer
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.
Formation dance is another style of competitive dance recognized by the WDSF. In this style, multiple dancers (usually in couples and typically up to 16 dancers at one time) compete on the same team, moving in and out of various formations while dancing. The Blackpool Dance Festival also holds an annual event for competitive formation dancing.
He saw jazz and its related dancing styles as a force for moral decay, and sought to cure it by bringing back traditional folk dances. In doing so, Ford rewrote the cultural history of the dance ...
She often based her dances on the work of black writers and on racial issues, such as Langston Hughes's 1944 The Negro Speaks of Rivers, and Lewis Allan's 1945 Strange Fruit (1945). Her dance company developed into the Pearl Primus Dance Language Institute. [27] Alvin Ailey studied under Lester Horton, Bella Lewitzky, and later Martha Graham ...
His dance repertoire includes many key romantic roles in both classical and contemporary ballet. He won a silver medal at the Prix de Lausanne in 1989 and also received a Princess Grace Foundation-USA grant in 1991. In 1998, Stiefel was nominated for the Benois de la Danse award as one of the rising stars in ballet. [3]