Recent Posts Tagged With 'choreographers'

• Michael Bennett

  Posted on Tuesday April 7th, 2009 at 18:01 in dancers, broadway, musical theatre, tony award winners, bisexuals, pulitzer prize winners, theatre directors, choreographers

  Michael Bennett born 8 April in 1943 (d. 1987)Michael Bennett was a Tony Award-winning American musical theatre director, writer, choreographer, and dancer.Born Michael Bennett DiFiglia to a Roman Catholic father and a Jewish mother in Buffalo, New Y...

• Antony Tudor

  Posted on Friday April 3rd, 2009 at 18:01 in ballet, dancers, choreographers

  Antony Tudor born 4 April 1908 (d. 1987)Antony Tudor was a highly influential English ballet choreographer, dancer and teacher.Born William Cook, the Cockney-born Tudor, who discovered dance accidentally, began dancing professionally with Marie Rambe...

• Vaslav Nijinsky

  Posted on Wednesday March 11th, 2009 at 19:01 in ballet, dancers, russians, ballet russes, choreographers

  Vaslav Nijinsky born 12 March 1890 (d. 1950)Probably the greatest male ballet dancer of all time, Nijinsky's two greatest achievements, assisted by his impresario lover Sergei Diaghilev, were to bring the role of the male dancer to the fore, and to r...

• Bill T. Jones

  Posted on Saturday February 14th, 2009 at 18:01 in living with hiv, dancers, tony award winners, choreographers

  Bill T. Jones born 15 February 1952Bill T. Jones is an American artistic director, choreographer and dancer based in New York City.He is the recipient of the 2007 Tony Award, the 2005 Wexner Prize, the 2005 Samuel H. Scripps American Dance Festival A...

• Alvin Ailey

  Posted on Sunday January 4th, 2009 at 18:01 in ballet, dancers, death from hiv aids, choreographers

  Alvin Ailey born 5 January 1931 (d. 1989)Alvin Ailey, Jr. was an African American modern dancer and choreographer who founded the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater on 92nd Street in New York City.Born into poverty in Rogers, Texas, Alvin Ailey moved...

• Maurice Béjart

  Posted on Wednesday December 31st, 2008 at 18:01 in writers, ballet, dancers, theatre directors, choreographers

  Maurice Béjart born 1 January 1927 (d. 2007)Maurice Béjart was one of the most influential choreographers of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries who attracted huge audiences to ballet.Maurice Béjart was born in Marseilles, the eldest of...

• Robert Joffrey

  Posted on Tuesday December 23rd, 2008 at 18:01 in ballet, death from hiv aids, choreographers

  Robert Joffrey born 24 December 1930 (d. 1988)Robert Joffrey was an American dancer, teacher, producer and choreographer, known for his highly imaginative modern ballets.He was born in Seattle, Washington. Joffrey was born Anver Bey Abdullah Jaffa Kh...

• Bruno Tonioli

  Posted on Monday November 24th, 2008 at 18:01 in television, dancers, choreographers

  Bruno Tonioli born 25 November 1955Bruno Tonioli is an Italian-born British dancer and professional choreographer.He was born and raised in Ferrara in North-East Italy. He is best known as a judge on both the British television series Strictly Come D...

• Rob Marshall

  Posted on Thursday October 16th, 2008 at 18:01 in musical theatre, theatre directors, film directors, choreographers

  Rob Marshall born 17 October 1960Rob Marshall is an American theatre, film director, and choreographer. He is a 6-time Tony nominee, Academy Award nominee, Golden Globe nominee and Emmy winner whose most noted work includes the 2002 film Chicago and ...

• Jerome Robbins

  Posted on Friday October 10th, 2008 at 18:01 in ballet, broadway, musical theatre, tony award winners, bisexuals, academy award oscar winners, choreographers

  Jerome Robbins born 11 October 1918 (d. 1998)Jerome Robbins was an American choreographer whose work included everything from classical ballet to contemporary musical theatre.Born Jerome Rabinowitz in New York City, he and his family soon moved to We...

• Arnie Zane

  Posted on Thursday September 25th, 2008 at 18:01 in dancers, photographers, death from hiv aids, choreographers

  Arnie Zane born 26 September 1948 (d. 1988)A photographer turned dancer and choreographer, Arnie Zane [pictured right] was co-founder and co-artistic director of Bill T Jones/Arnie Zane and Company. At first in duets with Bill T Jones and subsequentl...