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Pilobolus Logo. Pilobolus is an American modern dance company that began performing in October 1971. Pilobolus has performed over 100 choreographic works in more than 64 countries around the world, and has been featured on the 79th Annual Academy Awards, The Oprah Winfrey Show and Late Night with Conan O'Brien.
The Serpentine Dance was a frequent subject of early motion pictures, as it highlighted the new medium's ability to portray movement and light.Two particularly well-known versions were Annabelle Serpentine Dance (1894), a performance by Broadway dancer Annabelle Whitford from Edison Studios, and a Lumière brothers film made in 1896. [6]
While in high school, she was cast in a revival of Show Boat. [5] In 1942, Verdon's parents asked her to marry family friend and tabloid reporter James Henaghan after he got her pregnant at 17 years old, and she quit her dancing career to raise their child. [6] In 1945, she appeared as a dancer in the movie musical Blonde From Brooklyn. After ...
A hands-free Tango step that the Castles originated; photograph from their 1914 bestseller Modern Dancing Vernon, the son of a pub owner, was born on 2 May 1887 and raised in Norwich , Norfolk. Initially training to become a civil engineer, he moved to New York in 1906 with his sister, Coralie Blythe , and her husband Lawrence Grossmith , [ 1 ...
Georgine Darcy (January 14, 1933 – July 18, 2004) [1] was an American dancer and actress best known for her role as "Miss Torso" in the 1954 Alfred Hitchcock film Rear Window.
A Chorus Line is a 1975 musical conceived by Michael Bennett with music by Marvin Hamlisch, lyrics by Edward Kleban, and a book by James Kirkwood Jr. and Nicholas Dante.. Set on the bare stage of a Broadway theater, the musical is centered on seventeen Broadway dancers auditioning for spots on a chorus line.
Dickey was born and raised in Hutchinson, Kansas, where at the age of four, she began dancing in her mother's studio. [2] While attending Kansas State University, she majored in dance and competed as Miss Manhattan/Kansas-State [3] in the Miss Kansas pageant, where she won the talent division and finished third runner-up.
Maud Allan was born Ulah Maud Allan Durrant in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in 1873 to William Allan Durrant and Isabella (Hutchinson) Durrant. Allan was the second of two children, after her older brother, Theodore Durrant (1871–1898). [3]