biography
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1919– )
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| biography:
| Dancer, choreographer, teacher, and director, born in Centralia, Washington, USA. He experienced a range of dance forms before attending the Bennington School of Dance to study modern dance. He danced with the Martha Graham Company (1939–45), and started his own company in 1952. He is one of the major figures in the development of a concern with form and abstraction in modern dance and has received many awards. Among his many works are Summerspace (1958), Scramble (1967), Rain Forest (1968) and Duets (1980). |
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