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Educated at Eton College, [3] Alston trained as a dancer at the London School of Contemporary Dance, and then choreographed for the London Contemporary Dance Theatre before forming the UK's first independent dance company, Strider, in 1972. [4] In 1976, he went to New York City to study at the Merce Cunningham Dance Studio.
Born in New York City and raised in Virginia, [7] Richard Move studied theater and dance in high school and first experienced Martha Graham's work on a high school field trip to Washington D.C. Move said of Graham, "The dance was beyond my comprehension at the time, but I understood it was mythic and dramatic and so sexy and violent."
Richard E. Norman. Born in Middleburg, Florida in 1891, [4] Richard Edward Norman started his film career in the Midwest making movies for white audiences in the 1910s. His early work was a series of "home talent" films, in which he would travel to various towns with stock footage and a basic script; after recruiting local celebrities for minor roles, they would film a small portion of footage ...
Richard Avedon (May 15, 1923 – October 1, 2004) was an American fashion and portrait photographer. He worked for Harper's Bazaar , Vogue and Elle specializing in capturing movement in still pictures of fashion, theater and dance. [ 1 ]
In 2012, Arthur Murray Studios celebrated more than 100 years of teaching dance at over 270 Arthur Murray Dance Studios in 22 countries across the globe. [10] These range from studios in Australia (where the prestigious Crows Nest [ 11 ] and Parramatta [ 12 ] Dance Studios are located) and throughout North America, South America, Europe and Asia.
When pioneering rock ’n’ roll artist Little Richard died recently, fellow ’50s pop music icon Pat Boone’s name was prominently noted in many of the obituaries. One of Boone’s biggest ...
Richard "Richy" Jackson is an American dancer, creative director, and choreographer from the San Francisco Bay Area best known for his work with Lady Gaga. [1] Jackson has a lifelong interest in dance, and after seeing school friend Aaliyah on television, [2] he left Tuskegee University in 1999 and moved to Los Angeles to pursue dance as a career.
In the early fifties, he opened his own studio on 54 West 55th Street in Manhattan, where many in New York's high society came to take dance lessons. Invariably keeping a step ahead of trends, over the decades he taught what would become the mainstays of the discothèque scene: the Mambo , the Cha-cha and the Merengue , then the Twist and later ...