biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1912–93)
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| biography:
| Choreographer, born in Southington, Connecticut, USA. A puppeteer, and a pianist for silent films, he turned to dance, studying with Hanya Holm. Moving to New York City in 1948, he founded his own dance company, the Nikolais Dance Theater, in 1951. His style was idiosyncratic, and uninhibited by conventional artistic boundaries. He designed his own sets and became, in 1963, the first artist to use the Moog Synthesizer, a machine which electronically generates and manipulates sounds. |
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