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In the 1980s and early 1990s, Marks started the Victoria Marks Performance Company in New York. [2] In 1987 and 1988 she went to London on a Fulbright Fellowship in choreography. [2] She returned to London again in 1992 to run the choreography program at the London School of Contemporary Dance where she began making works for individual artists ...
Sir Robert Paul Cohan CBE (26 March 1925 – 13 January 2021) [1] [2] was a British dancer, choreographer, and the founding artistic director of The Place, London Contemporary Dance School, and London Contemporary Dance Theatre (LCDT), which he directed for 20 years. [3]
London Contemporary Dance School and its partner company, London Contemporary Dance Theatre, were founded in 1966 under the governance of the Contemporary Dance Trust. [2] [3] After receiving support from its founder, Robin Howard, the Contemporary Dance Trust moved to 17 Duke's Road in 1969, which it renamed The Place. [2]
Mark Morris Dance Group: modern Brooklyn, New York: United States: Founder Mark Morris: 1980–present Munt–Brooks Dance Studios: modern New York City United States Founders Alfred Brooks, Maxine Munt: 1952–1966; originally at 1125 6th Ave. moved to Denver in 1966 Merce Cunningham Dance Company: modern New York City: United States
The company closed in 1994 when The Place refocused its work, creating the Richard Alston Dance Company, and developing a bigger presenting programme for the Robin Howard Dance Theatre. London Contemporary Dance School was originally conceived to train dancers for the company, and awarded its first degree in practical dance in 1982. The School ...
Though the school has since moved from this location, this is the last studio that Martha Graham herself taught in. Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance is located in New York City and is the headquarters to the Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance and the Martha Graham Dance Company , which is the oldest continually performing ...
Rambert (known as Rambert Dance Company before 2014) is a leading British dance company. Formed at the start of the 20th century as a classical ballet company, it exerted a great deal of influence on the development of dance in the United Kingdom, and today, as a contemporary dance company, continues to be one of the world's most renowned dance companies.
Later in the 1970s, the Contemporary Ballet Trust established the London Contemporary Dance School and the London Contemporary Dance Theatre, both of which were formed at The Place; in 1994, the latter body was succeeded by the Richard Alston Dance Company which remained in residence at The Place until 2020. [10]