Alwin Nikolais was the sole creator of each media source he used. His was a dance theater of motion, light, sound and color. Alwin Nikolais blended his talents into a single aesthetic force that has greatly influenced the contemporary stage and a generation of choreographers. His work explores abstraction in movement, design, and sound. Alwin Nikolais’ philosophy of dance is an art of “motion, which left on its own merits, becomes the message as well as the medium.”
See also Chronology of Choreographic Works by Alwin Nikolais
Music: Speaking Chrous
Premiere: 12/15/1936
Location: Palace Theatre - Hartford, CT
Comissioned by: Connecticut WPA Federal Negro Theatre
Music: Percussion
Premiere: 12/13/1937
Location: Avery Memorial Theatre - Hartfod, CT
Comissioned By: Conneticut WPA Federal Negro Theater
Music: Ernst Krenek
Premiere: 5/19/39
Location: Avery Memorial Theatre Hartford, CT
Comissioned by: Wadsworth Atheneum & Friends or Enemies of Modern Music
Music: Dance movement by A. Nikolais
Premiere: 5/27/39
Location: Avery Memoial Theater Hartford, CT
Comissioned by: Ann Randall Productions
Music: Louis Horst
Premiere: 1/19/40
Location: Avery Memorial Theatre Hartford, CT
Comissioned by:
Music: Beatrice MacLoughlin
Premiere: 1/19/40
Location: Avery Memorial Theatre Hartford, CT
Comissioned by:
Music: Joaquin Turina
Premiere: 5/29/41
Location: Hartt College Hartford, CT
Comissioned by:
Music: David Guion
Premiere: 5/29/41
Location: Hartt College Hartford, CT
Comissioned by:
Music: Esther Williamson
Premiere: 5/29/41
Location: Hartt College Hartford, CT
Comissioned by:
Music: Wallingford Reigger
Premiere: 5/29/41
Location: Hartt College Hartford, CT
Comissioned by:
Music: by Franz Von Suppe
Premiere: 5/13/42
Location: Hartt College Hartford, CT
Comissioned by:
Music: Sergei Prokofiev
Premiere: 5/15/42
Location: Avery Memorial Theatre Hartford, CT
Comissioned by:
Music: Osbourne
Premiere: 5/15/42
Location: Avery Memorial Theatre Hartford, CT
Comissioned by:
Music: George Gershwin
Premiere: 5/15/42
Location: Avery Memorial Theatre Hartford, CT
Comissioned by:
Music: Friedrich Von Flotow
Premiere: 5/6/45
Location: Hartt College Hartford, CT
Comissioned by: Hartt Opera Guild
Music: Freda Miller
Script: Lillian de la Torre
Premiere: 8/17/46
Location: Fine Arts Center Colorado Springs
Comissioned by:
Music: Giovanni Paisiello
Premiere: 2/17/47
Location: Hartt College Hartford, CT
Comissioned by:
Music: Opera by Charles F. Gounod
Premiere: 2/18/48
Location: Hartt College Hartford, CT
Comissioned by:
Music: Isadore Freed
Premiere: 5/13/48
Location: Hartt College Hartford, CT
Comissioned by:
Music: Marshall Bialosky
Premiere: 8/13/48
Location: Fine Arts Center Colorado Springs
Comissioned by:
Music: Alfred Pew (pseudonym for Alfred Brooks)
Premiere: 5/26/49
Location: Henry Street Playhouse New York City
Comissioned by:
Music: Freda Miller
Premiere: 11/19/49
Location: Museum of Natural History
New York City
Comissioned by: NY Times 3rd Annual Boys & Girls Book Fair
Music:
Script: Dorothy McFadden
Premiere: 12/16/49
Location: Henry Street Playhouse New York City
Comissioned by:
Music: Malcolm Waldren
Premiere: 3/18/50
Location: The Brooklyn Museum New York City
Comissioned by:
Music: Improvised
Script: Alwin Nikolais and Murray Louis
Premiere: 12/27/50
Location: Henry Street Playhouse New York City
Comissioned by:
Music
Script: Alwin Nikolais and Murray Louis
Premiere: 12/28/50
Location: Henry Street Playhouse New York City
Comissioned by:
Music: Eugene Nicolait
Premiere: 4/30/51
Location: Henry Street Playhouse
Comissioned by:
Music: Eugene Nicolait
Premiere: 4/30/51
Location: Henry Street Playhouse
Comissioned by:
Music: Sergei Prokofiev
Premiere: 5/25/51
Location: Henry Street Playhouse
Comissioned by:
Music: Recordings
Premiere: 5/25/51
Location: Henry Street Playhouse
Comissioned by:
Music: Charles Francois Gounod
Directed by E. Nagy
Premiere: 6/30/51
Location: Central City Opera House Central City, CO
Comissioned by:
Music: Douglas Moore
Premiere: 11/9/51
Location: The Cooper Union, Advancement of Science and Art, New York City
Comissioned by:
Music: Jean Sibelius
Premiere: 11/9/51
Location: The Cooper Union, Advancement of Science and Art, New York City
Comissioned by:
Music: Percussion
Premiere: 11/9/51
Location: The Cooper Union, Advancement of Science and Art, New York City
Comissioned by:
Photo:
TITLE[Scene from the Alwin Nikolais Dance Theatre production "Noumenom from Divertissment", circa 1968-1972]
PHOTOGRAPHERChimera Foundation for Dance, Inc.
DEPICTSAlwin Nikolais Dance Theatre
DESCRIPTION: [from old catalog] 1972
RELATED PRODUCTION Murray Louis Dance Company and Alwin Nikolais Dance Theatre
IDENTIFIER 1968.01497
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Music: Freda Miller
Premiere: 11/9/51
Location: The Cooper Union, Advancement of Science and Art, New York City
Comissioned by:
Music: Percussion and piano
Premiere: 2/16/52
Location: Woodmere High School Woodmere, NY
Comissioned by:
Music credited to Freda Miller
Premiere: 12/28/52
Location: Henry Street Playhouse, New York City
Comissioned by:
Music: Percussion
Premiere: 5/23/53
Location: Henry Street Playhouse, New York City
Comissioned by:
Music: Percussion
Premiere: 5/27/53
Location: Henry Street Playhouse, New York City
Comissioned by:
Music: Douglas Moore
Premiere: 7/18/53
Location: Sturbridge Village Theater Sturbridge, MA
Comissioned by: Sturbridge Village Theater
Music: Douglas Moore
Script: Stephen Vincent Benet
Premiere: 7/18/53
Location: Sturbridge Village Theater Sturbridge, MA
Comissioned by:
Music: Freda Miller
Premiere: 1/1/54
Location: Henry Street Playhouse, New York City
Comissioned by:
Music: Trumpet improvisations by Don Ferrara
Premiere: 12/22/54
Location: Henry Street Playhouse, New York City
Comissioned by:
Music: Percussion
Premiere: 2/13/55
Location: Henry Street Playhouse, New York City
Comissioned by:
Music: Carlos Chavez
Premiere: 2/13/55
Location: Henry Street Playhouse, New York City
Comissioned by:
Music: Percussion
Premiere: 12/17/55
Location: Henry Street Playhouse, New York City
Comissioned by:
Music: Percussion
Premiere: 12/17/55
Location: Henry Street Playhouse, New York City
Comissioned by:
Music: Carlos Chavez
Premiere: 12/17/55
Location: Henry Street Playhouse, New York City
Comissioned by:
Music: George Anthei, Carlos Chavez, Alan Hovhaness, Edgard Varese, Heitor Villa Lobos, ethnic sources, and Playhouse Percussion Group.
Premiere: 5/25/56
Location: Henry Street Playhouse, New York City
Comissioned by:
Music: Percussion recordings by the Playhouse Percussion Group, ethnic sources, Alan Hovhaness, George Antheil
Premiere: 12/27/56
Location: Henry Street Playhouse, New York City
Comissioned by:
Music: Harry Partch
Premiere: 3/26/57
Location: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Illinois
Comissioned by: From Foundation, University of IL. School of Music, and the Dance Division of the Department of Physical Education for Women
Music: Arranged by Alwin Nikolais, assisted by David Berlin and Margaret Dietz, from “Music Concrete” sources and original recordings
Premiere: 8/16/57
Location: Connecticut College American Dance Festival New London CT
Comissioned by: Connecticut College for the Tenth American Dance Festival
Music: Playhouse Percussion Group, Eddie Sauter, Bill Finnegan, Pierre Henry, Pierre Schaeffer, Michael Phillipot, Daniel Pinkham, Henry Brandt
Premiere: 12/27/57
Location: Henry Street Playhouse, New York City
Comissioned by:
Music: Alwin Nikolais
Premiere: 5/16/58
Location: Henry Street Playhouse, New York City
Comissioned by:
Music: Alwin Nikolais
Premiere: 12/27/59
Location: Henry Street Playhouse, New York City
Comissioned by:
Music: Alwin Nikolais
Premiere: 12/27/59
Location: Henry Street Playhouse, New York City
Comissioned by:
Music: Alwin Nikolais assisted by Robert Mason
Premiere: 1/30/59
Location: Henry Street Playhouse, New York City
Comissioned by:
Music: Alwin Nikolais
Premiere: 1/30/59
Location: Henry Street Playhouse, New York City
Comissioned by:
Music:
Premiere: 1/30/59
Location: The Steve Allen Show, NBC-TV
Comissioned by:
Music:
Premiere: 9/28/59
Location: The Steve Allen Show, NBC-TV
Comissioned by:
Music:
Premiere: 10/19/59
Location: The Steve Allen Show, NBC-TV
Comissioned by:
Music:
Premiere: 12/28/59
Location: The Steve Allen Show, NBC-TV
Comissioned by:
Music: Alwin Nikolais
Premiere: 1/29/60
Location: Henry Street Playhouse, New York City
Comissioned by:
Music:
Premiere: 3/21/60
Location: The Steve Allen Show, NBC-TV
Comissioned by:
Music: Alwin Nikolais
Premiere: 11/30/60
Location:Caspary Auditorium, New York City
Comissioned by: Contemporary Music Society Concert
Music: Alwin Nikolais
Premiere: 1/27/61
Location: Henry Street Playhouse, New York City
Comissioned by:
Music: Alwin Nikolais
Premiere: 1/27/61
Location: Henry Street Playhouse, New York City
Comissioned by:
Music: Hovannes
Premiere: 4/29/61
Location: Henry Street Playhouse, New York City
Comissioned by:
Music: Alwin Nikolais (Some sounds were created on a new electronically controlled piano by Dr. Richard Evans of Salt Lake City, Utah)
Premiere: 8/5/61
Location: Comedia Canadienne, Montreal, Canada
Comissioned by:
Music: Alwin Nikolais
Premiere: 8/7/61
Location: Comedia Canadienne, Montreal, Canada
Comissioned by: Twenty-Sixth annual season of the Montreal Music and Drama Festival
Music:
Premiere: 7/7/62
Location: Teatro Nuevo Spoleto, Italy
Comissioned by:
Music: Alwin Nikolais
Premiere: 7/23/62
Location: Teatro Caio Melisso, Spoleto, Italy
Comissioned by:
Music: Alwin Nikolais and James Seawright. Sounds on RCA synthesizer of Columbia- Princeton Electronic Music Center, NYC
Premiere: 2/24/63
Location: Hartford Jewish Community Center, Hartford, CT
Comissioned by: Ann Randall Memorial Event
TITLE[Scene from "Imago" part of the production of Alwin Nikolais Dance Company during BAM Fall Series, 1968]
PHOTOGRAPHERRobert Sosenko
DEPICTSMurray Louis Dance Company, Alwin Nikolais Dance Theatre
DESCRIPTION: Alwin Nikolais Dance Co., "Imago," 1968
RELATED PRODUCTION Alwin Nikolais Dance Company
IDENTIFIER 1968.00892
RIGHTS STATEMENT Many of the digital objects on this site are protected by copyright or other legal rights. Those objects may not be reproduced, published or distributed without the express permission of the rights holder. Contact the BAM Hamm Archives for further information.
RIGHTS HOLDER Robert Sosenko
Music: Alwin Nikolais; sounds produced at Columbia- Princeton Music Center, NYC
Premiere: 2/20/64
Location: Henry Street Playhouse, New York City
Comissioned by: John Simon Guggenheim Foundation
Music: Alwin Nikolais; some sounds in electronic scores produced at Columbia- Princeton Music Center.
Premiere: 3/19/65
Location: Henry Street Playhouse, New York City
Comissioned by: John Simon Guggenheim Foundation
Music: Alwin Nikolais; Portions of electronic scores produced at Columbia- Princeton Music Center
Premiere: 12/10/65
Location: Tyrone Guthrie Theatre Minneapolis
Comissioned by: Walker Art Center
Music: Alwin Nikolais
Premiere: 12/10/65
Location: Tyrone Guthrie Theatre Minneapolis
Comissioned by: Walker Art Center
Music: Alwin Nikolais
Premiere: 2/9/67
Location: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum,
New York City
Comissioned by: Contemporary Music Society
Music: Alwin Nikolais
Premiere: 3/28/67
Location: Hilton Hotel, New York City
Comissioned by: Spring Mills, Inc.
Music: Alwin Nikolais
Premiere: 3/28/67
Location: George Abbot Theatre, New York City
Comissioned by: Spring Mills, Inc.
Music: Alwin Nikolais
Premiere: 11/30/67
Location: Henry Street Playhouse, New York City
Comissioned by:
Music: Alwin Nikolais
Premiere: 7/5/68
Location: Theater Auditorium, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
Comissioned by:
Photo:
TITLE[Scene from the Alwin Nikolais Dance Theater production "Tower" during BAM Spring Series, 1973]
PHOTOGRAPHERSusan Schiff-Faludi
DEPICTSAlwin Nikolais Dance Theatre
DESCRIPTION: Vaudeville of the Elements, a dance theatre-piece by Alwin Nikolais "Tower," section of Vaudeville of the Elements
RELATED PRODUCTION Murray Louis Dance Company/Alwin Nikolais Dance Theatre
IDENTIFIER 1973.01212
RIGHTS STATEMENT Many of the digital objects on this site are protected by copyright or other legal rights. Those objects may not be reproduced, published or distributed without the express permission of the rights holder. Contact the BAM Hamm Archives for further information.
RIGHTS HOLDER Susan Schiff-Faludi
Music: Alwin Nikolais
Premiere: 7/5/68
Location: Theater Auditorium University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
Comissioned by: University of South Florida
Photo:
TITLE[Scene from the Alwin Nikolais Dance Theatre production "Tent", circa 1968-1972]
PHOTOGRAPHERBrynn Manley
DEPICTSMurray Louis Dance Company, Alwin Nikolais Dance Theatre
RELATED PRODUCTION Alwin Nikolais Dance Company, Murray Louis Dance Company and Alwin Nikolais Dance Theatre
IDENTIFIER 1968.01565
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RIGHTS HOLDER Brynn Manley
Music: Alwin Nikolais
Premiere: 7/20/68
Location: CBS, New York City
Comissioned by: CBS, New York City
Music and libretto: Gian- Carlo Menotti
Premiere: 12/21/68
Location: Hamburg Opera, Hamburg, Germany
Comissioned by: Hamburgischen Staatsoper
Music: Alwin Nikolais
Premiere: 12/3/69
Location: City Center Theatre, New York City
Comissioned by: Made possible by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts
Music: Alwin Nikolais
Premiere: 4/29/70
Location: City Center Theatre, New York City
Comissioned by: Chimera Foundation for Dance
Music: Alwin Nikolais
Premiere: 2/25/71
Location: Anta Theater, New York City
Comissioned by: Made possible by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts
Music: Alwin Nikolais with Moog synthesizer
Premiere: 6/71
Location: BBC London
Comissioned by: BBC London; co- production with National Educational Television
Music: Alwin Nikolais
Premiere: 1/22/72
Location: Brooklyn Academy of Music Opera House, New York City
Comissioned by: Rehearsal period funded by the New York State Council on the Arts
Music: Ed Emschwiller
Premiere: 3/9/72
Location: Buffalo, New York
Comissioned by:
Music: Alwin Nikolais and James Burton
Premiere: 2/17/73
Location: Brooklyn Academy of Music Opera House, New York City
Comissioned by: Made possible by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts
Music: Pierre Henry
Premiere: 2/9/73
Location: Hamburg Opera House, Hamburg
Germany
Comissioned by: Hamburgischen Staatsoper
Music: Arranged
Premiere: 2/8/74
Location: Lycuem Theatre
Comissioned by:
Music: Alwin Nikolais
Premiere: 72/5/74
Location: Lyceum Theatre, New York City
Comissioned by: Made possible by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts
Music: Alwin Nikolais
Premiere: 2/2/74
Location: Middletown High School, Middletown, NY
Comissioned by: Funded by the Greater Middletown Arts Council, Inc.
Music: Alwin Nikolais
Premiere: 9/20/74
Location: Teatro Zarzuela, Rockefeller FoundationMadrid, Spain
Comissioned by: CBS, New York City
Music: Alwin Nikolais
Premiere: 5/3/75
Location: Teatro Colon, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Comissioned by: Made possible with a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts
Music: Alwin Nikolais
Premiere: 8/3/76
Location: Beacon Theatre, New York City
Comissioned by: National Endowment for the Arts
Music: Alwin Nikolais
Premiere: 8/4/76
Location: Beacon Theatre, New York City
Comissioned by: Made possible with a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts
Music: Improvised by the Paul Winter Consort with electronic sounds by Alwin Nikolais
Premiere: 2/9/77
Location: Beacon Theatre, New York City
Comissioned by: Made possible with a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts
Music: Alwin Nikolais and improvisations by the Paul Winter consort (dance #7)
Premiere: 2/11/77
Location: Beacon Theatre, New York City
Comissioned by: Madeleine Lejwa & Contemporary Music Society of New York
Music: Alwin Nikolais
Premiere: 4/19/78
Location: Beacon Theatre, New York City
Comissioned by: Made possible with a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts
Music: Alwin Nikolais
Premiere: 4/20/78
Location: Beacon Theatre New York City
Comissioned by:
Music: Daniel Harris, Les Thimmig & A Nikolais
Premiere: 12/7/78
Location: Union Theatre University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
Comissioned by: University of Wisconsin, Wisconsin Foundation for the Arts, Wisconsin Arts Board and the Evjue Foundation
Music: Alwin Nikolais
Premiere: 5/7/79
Location: Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City
Comissioned by: George Soros and partial funding by the National Endowment for the Arts and New York State Council on the Arts
Music: Improvised by David Darling Ensemble under Alwin Nikolais’ direction
Premiere: 6/4/80
Location: Gaillard Municipal Auditorium, Spoleto Festival Charleston, South Carolina
Comissioned by: George Soros, with partial funding by the National Endowment for the Arts and New York State Council on the Arts
Music: Improvised by David Darling Ensemble under direction of Nikolais and Darling
Premiere: 12/18/80
Location: Palais Garnier, Paris, France
Comissioned by: Paris Opera
Music: Improvised by David Darling Ensemble under direction of Nikolais and Darling
Premiere: 2/12/81
Location: City Center Theater, New York City
Comissioned by:
Music: Improvised by David Darling Ensemble under direction of Nikolais and Darling
Premiere: 2/12/81
Location: City Center Theater, New York City
Comissioned by: GNew York State Council on the Arts
Music: Alwin Nikolais
Premiere: 5/18/82
Location: Grand Auditorio Gulbenkian,
Lisbon, Portugal
Comissioned by: National Endowment for the Arts
Music: Electronic scores by Alwin Nikolais; additional music improvised by David Darling Ensemble
Premiere: 6/22/82
Location: Theatre de la Ville In the Theatre de Paris, Paris, France
Comissioned by: George Soros with partial funding from the National Endowment for the Arts
Music: Alwin Nikolais
Premiere: 3/29/83
Location: Theatro Municipal Caracas, Venezuela
Comissioned by: Venezuelan National Cultural Council for the Simon Bolivar Bicentennial
Music: Scott Killian (orchestrations)
Premiere: 12/22/83
Location: Public Theater, New York City
Comissioned by: Joseph Papp Public Theater/ New York Shakespeare Festival
Music: Edgar Varese (poem electronique)
Premiere: 2/16/84
Location: City Center Theater, New York City
Comissioned by: Electronic Music Center, Columbia University, part of the School of the Arts’ “A Varese Celebration”
Music: David Gregory
Premiere: 4/16/84
Location: Olympics Arts Festival, Pasadena, CA
Comissioned by: Olympics Arts Festival, LAOOC
Music: David Gregory
Premiere: 7/18/84
Location: American Dance Festival, Durham, NC
Comissioned by: Golden Commission by the American Dance Festival
Music: Alwin Nikolais
Premiere: 3/2/85
Location: Wacoal Art Center Tokyo, Japan
Comissioned by: Wacoal Art Center Tokyo, Japan
Music: Alwin Nikolais
Premiere: 6/13/85
Location: American Dance Festival Festival, Durham, NC
Comissioned by: American Dance Festival
Music: Alwin Nikolais
Premiere: 7/85
Location: Aix en Provence, France
Comissioned by: Aix en Provence Festival
Music: Alwin Nikolais
Premiere: 7/8/85
Location: Pavillion Vendome, Aix en Provence, France
Comissioned by: La Danse a Aix & Le Festival des Nuits de l’Esterel
Music: Alwin Nikolais
Premiere: 12/22/86
Location: The Joyce Theater, New York City
Comissioned by: National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, and the Andrew W. Mellon Fund
Music: Alwin Nikolais
Premiere: 5/29/87
Location: Paris Opera House, Paris, France
Comissioned by: Paris Opera
Music: Alwin Nikolais
Premiere: 12/15/87
Location: The Joyce Theater,New York City
Comissioned by:
Music: Alwin Nikolais
Premiere: 12/23/87
Location: The Joyce Theater, New York City
Comissioned by:
Music: Alwin Nikolais
Premiere: 6/1/88
Location: Midland Center for the Arts, Midland, MI
Comissioned by: Matrix Midland Festival
Music: Alwin Nikolais
Premiere: 7/20/89
Location: Herod Atticus Theater, Athens, Greece
Comissioned by: Surdna Foundation and the Athens Festival
Music: Alwin Nikolais
Premiere: 10/25/89
Location: Joyce Theatre New York City
Comissioned by: National Endowment for the Arts and NYS Council of the Arts
Music: Alwin Nikolais
Premiere: 10/29/89
Location: Joyce Theatre, New York City
Comissioned by: Surdna Foundation
Music: Alwin Nikolais
Premiere: 4/3/90
Location: Terrace Theater, (Kennedy Center, Washington DC)
Comissioned by: Kennedy Center for its community outreach program ‘Imagination Celebration’
Music: Alwin Nikolais
Premiere: 4/24/91
Location: The Joyce Theater, New York City
Comissioned by: New York State Council on the Arts for dancer Nina Watt
Music: John Scoville
Premiere: 1/28/92
Location: Joyce Theatre New York City
Comissioned by: National Endowment for the Arts and Harkness Foundation for Dance
Murray Louis viewed dance as a complete language – a ways and means to communicate and learn. He continued to demonstrate total commitment and share his expertise.
Music: Arranged
Premiere: 1949
Location: San Francisco State Theatre
Comissioned by:
Music: Hellmuth F. Dusedau
Premiere: 4/22/49
Location: San Francisco Marine’s Memorial Theater
Comissioned By:
Music:
Premiere: 1/1/50
Location: Henry St. Playhouse
Comissioned by:
Music: Arranged by Florence Deutsch
Premiere: 5/27/39
Location: 1/1/50
Comissioned by: Henry St. Playhouse
Music: Percussion
Premiere: 11/30/51
Location: Henry St. Playhouse
Comissioned by:
Music: Bob Abrams
Premiere: 2/1/52
Location: Henry St. Playhouse
Comissioned by:
Music: Stravinsky
Premiere: 5/12/52
Location: Henry St. Playhouse
Comissioned by:
Music:
Premiere: 12/19/52
Location: Henry St. Playhouse
Comissioned by:
Music: Benjamin Britten
Premiere: 1/1/53
Location: Henry St. Playhouse
Comissioned by:
Music: Percussion
Premiere: 1/1/53
Location: Henry St. Playhouse
Comissioned by:
Music: Diamond
Premiere: 3/14/53
Location: Henry St. Playhouse
Comissioned by:
Music: Waldron
Premiere: 5/14/53
Location: Henry St. Playhouse
Comissioned by:
Music:
Premier: 5/16/53
Location: Henry St. Playhouse
Comissioned by:
Music: Casella
Premiere: 4/11/54
Location: Henry St. Playhouse
Comissioned by:
Music: Vivaldi
Premiere: 4/11/54
Location:Henry St. Playhouse
Comissioned by:
Music: Norman Dell Joio
Premiere: 5/26/54
Location: Henry St. Playhouse
Comissioned by:
Music: Percussion
Premiere: 1954
Location: Henry St. Playhouse
Comissioned by:
Music: Satie
Premiere: 5/26/54
Location: Henry St. Playhouse
Comissioned by:
Music: Dutilleux
Premiere: 2/13/55
Location: Henry St. Playhouse
Comissioned by:
Music: Chavez
Premiere: 2/13/55
Location: Henry St. Playhouse
Comissioned by:
Music: Percussion
Premiere: 2/13/55
Location: Henry Street Playhouse New York City
Comissioned by:
Music:
Premiere: 2/20/55
Location: Henry St. Playhouse
Comissioned by:
Music:
Premiere: 1955
Location: Henry Street Playhouse New York City
Comissioned by:
Music: Debussy, Dutilleux
Premiere: 2/13/55
Location: Henry St. Playhouse
Comissioned by:
Music: Traditional
Premiere: 12/27/55
Location: Henry Street Playhouse New York City
Comissioned by:
Music: Satie
Premiere: 11/20/55
Location: Henry Street Playhouse New York City
Comissioned by:
Music: Hovaness
Premiere: 11/20/55
Location: Henry Street Playhouse
Comissioned by:
Music: 12th Century
Premiere: 11/20/55
Location: Henry Street Playhouse
Comissioned by:
Music: Weill
Premiere: 11/20/55
Location: Henry Street Playhouse
Comissioned by:
Music: Hovaness
Premiere: 11/20/55
Location: Henry Street Playhouse
Comissioned by:
Music: Hovaness
Premiere: 1955
Location: Henry St. Playhouse
Music:
Premiere: 2/19/56
Location: Henry St. Playhouse
Comissioned by:
Music: Arranged
Premiere: 3/11/56
Location: Henry St. Playhouse
Comissioned by:
Music: J.S.Bach
Premiere: 11/17/56
Location: Henry St. Playhouse
Comissioned by:
Music: Fassett, Hovanes (arranged)
Premiere: 11/17/56
Location: Henry St. Playhouse
Comissioned by:
Music: Glanville – Hicks, & Percussion by the Playhouse Group
Premiere: 11/17/56
Location: Henry St. Playhouse
Comissioned by:
Music: Eddy Manson
Premiere: 11/17/56
Location: Henry Street Playhouse, New York City
Comissioned by:
Music: Bach
Premiere: 11/17/56
Location: Connecticut College
Comissioned by:
Music:
Premiere: 2/17/57
Location: Henry Street Playhouse, New York City
Comissioned by:
Music: Manson
Premiere: 7/17/57
Location: Connecticut College
Comissioned by:
Music: Ibert, Sor-Tarrega, Reshighi, Ives, Antheil
Premiere: 11/8/57
Location: Henry St. Playhouse
Comissioned by:
Music: Archie-Smith
Premiere: 1958
Location: Henry Street Playhouse, New York City
Comissioned by:
Music:
Premiere: 2/12/58
Location: Henry Street Playhouse, New York City
Comissioned by:
Music:
Premiere: 1/1/59
Location: Henry Street Playhouse, New York City
Comissioned by:
Music:
Premiere: 12/28/59
Location: Henry Street Playhouse, New York City
Comissioned by:
Music:
Premiere: 2/15/59
Location: Henry Street Playhouse, New York City
Comissioned by:
Music:
Premiere: 12/27/60
Location: Henry Street Playhouse, New York City
Comissioned by:
Music: Ivan Fiedel
Premiere: 3/11/60
Location: Henry Street Playhouse, New York City
Comissioned by:
Music: Bach
Premiere: 3/11/60
Location: Henry Street Playhouse, New York City
Comissioned by:
Music: Alwin Nikolais
Premiere: 4/29/61
Location: Henry Street Playhouse, New York City
Comissioned by:
Music: Hovannes
Premiere: 4/29/61
Location: Henry St. Playhouse
Comissioned by:
Music: Alwin Nikolais
Premiere: 4/29/61
Location: Henry St. Playhouse
Comissioned by:
Music: Alwin Nikolais
Premiere: 4/29/61
Location: Henry Street Playhouse, New York City
Comissioned by:
Music: Arranged
Premiere: 4/29/61
Location: Henry Street Playhouse, New York City
Comissioned by:
Music: Alwin Nikolais
Premiere: 11/23/62
Location: Henry Street Playhouse, New York City
Comissioned by:
Music: J.S. Bach
Premiere: 1963
Location: Henry Street Playhouse, New York City
Comissioned by:
Music: J.S. Bach
Premiere: 1963
Location: Henry Street Playhouse, New York City
Comissioned by:
Music: Vivaldi
Premiere: 1/1/63
Location: Henry Street Playhouse, New York City
Comissioned by:
Music:
Premiere: 5/11/63
Location: The Steve Allen Show, NBC-TV
Comissioned by:
Music: Lukas Foss
Premiere: 11/29/63
Location: Henry St. Playhouse
Comissioned by:
Music: Schaffer, Alwin Nikolais
Premiere: 4/18/64
Location: Henry St. Playhouse
Comissioned by:
Music: Alwin Nikolais
Premiere: 4/11/64
Location: College of Los Angeles (CSCLA)
Comissioned by: CSCLA
Music: J.S. Bach
Premiere: 4/3/64
Location: University of Utah
Comissioned by:
Music: Alvin Walker
Premiere: 11/20/64
Location: Henry St. Playhouse
Comissioned by:
Music: Arranged
Premiere: 11/27/64
Location: Henry St. Playhouse
Comissioned by:
TITLE[Scene from "Junk Dances" part of the Murray Louis Dance Company self-titled production during BAM Spring Series, 1972]
DEPICTSMurray Louis Dance Company
SEASONSpring 1972
RELATED PRODUCTION Murray Louis Dance Company and Alwin Nikolais Dance Theatre
RELATED EVENT SERIES BAM Spring 1972
IDENTIFIER 1972.00850
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Music: J.S. Bach
Premiere: 4/3/64
Location: Henry Street Playhouse, New York City
Comissioned by: University of Utah
Music: Alwin Nikolais
Premiere: 12/4/64
Location: Henry Street Playhouse, New York City
Comissioned by:
Music:
Premiere: 5/22/65
Location: Henry Street Playhouse, New York City
Comissioned by:
Music: Alwin Nikolais
Premiere: 2/25/66
Location: Henry St. Playhouse
Comissioned by:
Music: Alwin Nikolais
Premiere: 1966
Location: Henry St. Playhouse
Comissioned by:
Music: J.S. Bach
Premiere: 12/15/66
Location: Henry St. Playhouse
Comissioned by:
Music: Toshiro Mayuzumi
Premiere: 12/15/66
Location: Henry St. Playhouse
Comissioned by:
Music: Alwin Nikolais
Premiere: 2/9/67
Location: Henry St. Playhouse
Comissioned by:
Music: Alwin Nikolais
Premiere: 1968
Location: Henry Street Playhouse, New York City
Comissioned by:
Music: Brahms
Premiere: 1/30/69
Location: Henry St. Playhouse
Comissioned by:
Music: Harold Farberman
Premiere: 1/1/69
Location: University of Alberta
Comissioned by: National Endowment for the Arts
Music: Free Life Communications
Premiere: 1/5/71
Location: Civic Theatre
Comissioned by: National Endowment for the Arts, John Simon Gunnenheim
Music: Corky Siegel, Alwin Nikolais
Premiere: 1/5/71
Location: Civic Theatre
Comissioned by: National Endowment for the Arts, John Simon Gunnenheim
Music:
Premiere: 1/5/71
Location: Civic Theatre
Comissioned by: National Endowment for the Arts, John Simon Gunnenheim
Music:
Premiere: 1971
Location: Anta Theater, New York City
Comissioned by: National Endowment for the Arts
Music: Lisbon State Police Band
Premiere: 1/26/72
Location: Brooklyn Academy of music
Comissioned by: New York State Council for the Arts
Music: Alwin Nikolais
Premiere: 1972
Location:
Comissioned by:
Music: Oregon Ensemble
Premiere: 2/15/73
Location: Brooklyn Academy of Music
Comissioned by: National Endowment for the Arts
Music: Tchaikovsky
Premiere: 10/27/73
Location: Edison Theater, Washington University
Comissioned by:
Music Tchaikovksy
Premiere: 2/19/74
Location: Lyceum Theater, NY
Comissioned by: National Endowment for the Arts
Music: Alwin Nikolais
Premiere: 12/20/74
Location: Theater of New York University
Comissioned by: National Endowment for the Arts
Music: Rimsky-Korsakov, Free Life Comm. & A.Nikolais
Premiere: 12/27/74
Location: Clowes Memorial Hall
Comissioned by: Fellowship from John Simon Guggenheim
Music: Victor Herbert
Premiere: 1/1/75
Location:
Comissioned by: Dorothy Phillips
Music: Maurice Revel
Premiere: 1/1/75
Location: Madrid, Spain
Comissioned by:
Music: Dave Brubeck
Premiere: 8/6/76
Location: Connecticut College
Comissioned by: Project of Music and Dance of the American Dance Festival
Music: Joe Clark Entourage
Premiere: 10/1/76
Location: Madrid, Spain
Comissioned by:
Music: Laure, Tarrega, Lauro, Scarlatti, Albeniz
Premiere: 2/16/77
Location: Beacon Theater
Comissioned by:
Music: Arranged
Premiere: 3/11/77
Location: E.J. Thomas Performing Arts Center
Comissioned by:
Music: Schubert
Premiere: 10/14/77
Location: Lisner Auditorium, Washington
Comissioned by: Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Music: Andrew Rudin and Alwin Nikolais
Premiere: 1977
Location: Beacon Theater
Comissioned by: National Endowment for the Arts, AndrewW. Mellon, John Phillips
Music:
Premiere: 5/31/78
Location: Broadway
Comissioned by: National Endowment for the Arts
Music: Cole Porter Arranged by: William Balcom
Premiere: 5/31/78
Location: Broadway
Comissioned by: National Endowment for the Arts
Music: Paul Winter Consort
Premiere: 12/19/78
Location: Eisenhower Auditorium, Penn State
Comissioned by: Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Music: Ted Kalmon
Premiere: 1979
Location:
Comissioned by:
Music: Alexander Scriabin
Premiere: 4/11/79
Location: Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris)
Comissioned by: Never performed
Music:William Bolcom
Premiere: 11/1/79
Location: City Center
Comissioned by:
Music:
Premiere: 11/2/79
Location:
Comissioned by:
Music: Paul Winter Consort
Premiere: 10/9/79
Location:
Comissioned by: New York State Council of the Arts
Music: Alwin Nikolais
Premiere: 4/20/78
Location: Beacon Theatre New York City
Comissioned by:
Music: David Darling Ensemble
Premiere: 10/8/80
Location: City Center
Comissioned by: New York State Council of the Arts
Music: David Darling Ensemble
Premiere: 10/8/80
Location: City Center
Comissioned by:
Music:Albeniz, Granados, De Falla
Premiere: 10/26/80
Location: University of Hawaii
Comissioned by:
Music:
Premiere: 1980
Location: City Center
Comissioned by:
Music: Stravinsky
Premiere: 1/1/82
Location:
Comissioned by:
Music: Darius Milhaud and Emmanual Chabrier
Premiere: 3/23/82
Location: Theatre de Paris
Comissioned by:
Music: Stravinsky
Premiere: 9/16/82
Location: Collegiate Theatre, London
Comissioned by: Hamburg Staatsoper Ballet
Music: Alwin Nikolais
Premiere: 11/5/82
Location: Joyce Theater
Comissioned by:
Music: Alwin Nikolais
Premiere: 1982
Location:
Comissioned by:
Music: Arranged
Premiere: 11/10/82
Location: Joyce Theater
Comissioned by:
Music: David Gregory
Premiere: 1/28/83
Location: Gammage Center, Arizona State University
Comissioned by:
Music: By Alwin Nikolais
Premiere: 2/9/84
Location: City Center
Comissioned by:
Music: Brubeck and Paul Desmond
Premiere: 2/9/84
Location: City Center
Comissioned by: National Endowment for the Arts, NY State Council for the Arts
Music: Alwin Nikolais and David Gregory
Premiere: 6/18/84
Location:
Comissioned by: Pompidou Center, Paris
Music:
Premiere: 8/84
Location: Televisa, Mexico City
Comissioned by:
Music: Glenn Moore
Premiere: 3/15/85
Location: Chicago
Comissioned by:
Music: David Gregory
Premiere: 8/27/85
Location: Taormina Arts Festival
Comissioned by: Taormina Arts Festival
Music: Alwin Nikolais and David Gregory
Premiere: 4/4/86
Location: The Joyce Theater, New York City
Comissioned by: National Endowment for the Arts
Music: Alwin Nikolais, JS Bach, Drigo
Premiere: 4/2/86
Location: Joyce Theater
Comissioned by:
Music: Ben Hazard and Tigger Benford
Premiere: 1987
Location: The Joyce Theater,New York City
Comissioned by:
Music: Alwin Nikolais
Premiere: 1987
Location: The Joyce Theater, New York City
Comissioned by:
Music: George Gershwin
Premiere: 5/13/87
Location: Play House Square Center
Comissioned by: Cleveland Foundation
Music: Dace Brubeck
Premiere: 11/12/87
Location: Royce Hall, University of California
Comissioned by: UCLA Center of Performing Arts Foundation
Music: Dave Brubeck
Premiere: 11/12/87
Location: Royce Hall, University of California
Comissioned by: UCLA Center for the Performing Arts Foundation
Music: Pia Gilbert
Premiere: 1987
Location:
Comissioned by:
Music: Bach
Premiere: 1987
Location: Joyve Theater
Comissioned by:
Music: Pia Gilbert
Premiere: 1987
Location: The Joyce Theater, New York City
Comissioned by:
Music: David Gregory
Premiere: 1987
Location: Joyce Theatre New York City
Comissioned by:
Music: Alwin Nikolais
Premiere: 4/12/89
Location: Place des Arts Montreal, Canada
Comissioned by: Harkness Foundation for Dance, National Endowment for the Arts
Music: Alwin Nikolais
Premiere: 1989
Location: Joyce Theatre New York City
Comissioned by: Surdna Foundation
Music:
Premiere: 1990
Location:
Comissioned by:
Music: Jon Scoville
Premiere: 3/9/90
Location: Europe
Comissioned by:
Music:
Premiere: 1992
Location:
Comissioned by:
Music:
Premiere: 1/30/92
Location: Joyce Theatre New York City
Comissioned by:
Music: Piazzolla
Premiere: 12/5/93
Location: Theatre 71 Malakoff, France
Comissioned by:
Music: Alwin Nikolais
Premiere: 2/1/94
Location: Sylvia and Danny Kaye Playhouse,
Commissioned By
Cleveland Foundation
UCLA Center of Performing Arts Foundation
UCLA Center for the Performing Arts Foundation
Harkness Foundation for Dance, National Endowment for the Arts Surdna Foundation
Where Phantoms Gather
1/30/92
Hunter CollegeSylvia and Danny Kaye Playhouse,
Commissioned By
Cleveland Foundation
UCLA Center of Performing Arts Foundation
UCLA Center for the Performing Arts Foundation
Harkness Foundation for Dance, National Endowment for the Arts Surdna Foundation
Where Phantoms Gather
1/30/92
Hunter CollegeSylvia and Danny Kaye Playhouse,
Commissioned By
Cleveland Foundation
UCLA Center of Performing Arts Foundation
UCLA Center for the Performing Arts Foundation
Harkness Foundation for Dance, National Endowment for the Arts Surdna Foundation
Where Phantoms Gather
1/30/92
Hunter College
Comissioned by:
Music: Alban Berg, Vivaldi
Premiere: 2/4/94
Location: ylvia and Danny Kaye Playhouse, Hunter College
Comissioned by:
Music: Darius Milhaud, Erik Satie
Premiere: 10/9/95
Location: John Jay College Theatre
Comissioned by: Philip Morris Companies INC.
Music: Darius Milhaud
Premiere: 10/9/95
Location: John Jay College Theater
Comissioned by: Philip Morris Companies, INC.
Music: Darius Milhaud
Premiere: 10/9/95
Location: John Jay College Theater
Comissioned by:
Music: Darius Milhaud
Premiere: 10/9/95
Location: John Jay College Theater
Comissioned by:
Music: Darius Milhaud
Premiere: 10/9/95
Location: John Jay College Theater
Comissioned by:
Music: Scott Killian
Premiere: 11/1/96
Location: Joyce Theatre New York City
Comissioned by:
Music: Alwin Nikolais
Premiere: 11/19/96
Location: Joyce Theatre New York City
Comissioned by:
Music: Aaron Copeland
Premiere: 12/2/97
Location: Joyce Theatre New York City
Comissioned by:
Music: Scott Killian. Dave Brubeck
Premiere: 12/2/97
Location: Joyce Theatre New York City
Comissioned by:
Music: Scott Killian, Carol and Lawrence Lipnik
Premiere: 10/28/98
Location: Joyce Theatre New York City
Comissioned by:
