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Dance Theater of Harlem
Emboldening classical ballet, the Dance Theater of Harlem takes up the old and gives it an articulate
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Innovations since balanchine
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Vaslav Nijinsky
It has been said that no photograph ever captured the mysterious allure of Vaslav Nijinsky. The camer
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Severe
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The early russians
Urban Bush Women
As the paradoxical name suggests, the dance troupe Urban Bush Women combines the spiritual elements o
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Body politic/identity dance
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Improvised
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Joyful
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Open-ended
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Political
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Spiritual
Ping Chong
As a first-generation immigrant from China, Ping Chong recognized himself as "the other" in a society
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Collage
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Dense
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Eclectic
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Layered
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Pedestrian movement
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Perceptual
John Cameron Mitchell
"I'm the new Berlin Wall. Try to tear me down." -- Hedwig An East German war bride looks after a yo
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Angry
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New american musical
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Perverse
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Pop
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Tragic
David Henry Hwang
"M. Butterfly" is the ostensibly true story of a French diplomat who carries on a 17-year affair with
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Eclectic
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Epic
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Layered
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Off-broadway
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Political
Annie Sprinkle
"To me, the television is sex, the bed is sex, the sky is sex, you're sex, I'm sex, everything is sex
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Bad girl art
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Ebullient
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Sexy
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Technology
Anne-Terese de Keersmaeker
Like Pina Bausch, Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker has an affinity for the dramatic and overwrought -- Mark
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Dramatic
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Euro-surreal expressionism
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Hypnotic
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Overflowing
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Pathos
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Enrico Cecchetti
Enrico Cecchetti was literally born into dance: he came into this world in a theater dressing room, o
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Romantic ballet
Elizabeth Streb
Elizabeth Streb is an extreme dancer. In her incredibly athletic works, dancers swan-dive from scaffo
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Athleticism
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Event
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Kinetic
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Sean O'Casey
Sean O'Casey stormed the citadel of English cultural imperialism in his native Ireland with powerhous
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Dark
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Gritty
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Irish renaissance
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Lyrical
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Maria Irene Fornes
"In the work of every American playwright at the end of the twentieth century, there are only two sta
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Contemporary plays
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Enigmatic
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Event
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Feminist theater
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Ironic
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Surreal
Paula Vogel
Paula Vogel has reaped success from risk, taking on controversial subjects such as AIDS (notably in '
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Contemporary plays
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Gay/lesbian theater
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Anton Chekhov
"All I wanted was to say honestly to people: 'Have a look at yourselves and see how bad and dreary yo
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Absurd
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Dark
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Ironic
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Pathos
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Realist theater
Jonathan Larson
The unlucky landlord of "Rent" died the night his smash Broadway musical was born in 1996. Following
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Bombast
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New american musical
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Overflowing
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Pop
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Gilbert and Sullivan
The dramatic duo of Victorian London, playwright Sir William Schwenck Gilbert and composer Sir Arthur
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Musical theater
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Pathos
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Wendy Wasserstein
According to some, "the voice of a generation" echoes through the pen of playwright Wendy Wasserstein
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Jewish theater
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Rachel Rosenthal
Rachel Rosenthal spent her early childhood in pre-war Paris among the Monets, Chagalls, and Pissarros
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Political
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Solo performance
Luigi Pirandello
From a small town in Sicily called (prophetically?) Chaos, there emerged one of the comic geniuses of
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Absurd
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Anxiety
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Flux
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Layered
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Theater of the grotesque (italy)
Eve Ensler
In her poetical, feminist tracts, French Lacanian theorist Luce Irigaray imagines the female genitali
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Feminist
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Feminist theater
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In-your-face
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Political
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Solo performance
Pina Bausch
"In the beginning there is nothing. It starts very small and becomes bigger." Pina Bausch creates epi
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Bombast
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Euro-surreal expressionism
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George Balanchine
He was known with affectionate reverence as "Mr. B," and that imperious initial may as well have stoo
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Bombast
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High modernism -- ballet in america
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Machinistic
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Physical force
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Pioneering
Mikhail Baryshnikov
In the '70s and early '80s, ballet in America became, fleetingly, a pinnacle of popularized glamor. T
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Charming
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Soviet ballet: the bolshoi and the kirov
Rudolph Nureyev
Although too erratic in technique to earn the distinction of virtuoso, Rudolf Nureyev still took a pl
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Soviet ballet: the bolshoi and the kirov
Tony Kushner
Growing up white, Jewish, and homosexual in the turbulent South of the '60s does not lay the groundwo
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Funny
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Political
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Josephine Baker
A protege of dancers Eubie Blake and Noble Sissel, 15-year-old Josephine Baker began her career on th
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Elegant
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Erotic
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Feminine
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Harlem renaissance theater
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Kinetic
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Sexy
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Tribal
Bill T. Jones
Bill T. Jones's acclaimed multicultural dance company, Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane and Company, continue
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Body politic/identity dance
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Homoerotic
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Political
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Queer literature
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Sexy
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Sublime
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Technology
Gene Kelly
Gene Kelly's blend of acrobatics, athleticism, and artistry blew a potent blast of machismo under t
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Bubblicious
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Charming
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Masculine
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Overflowing
Agnes de Mille
Niece of larger-than-life movie director Cecil B. de Mille, Agnes had star quality of her own and tal
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Ballet goes hollywood
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Ebullient
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Grand
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Monumental
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Sincere
Stephen Sondheim
Stephen Sondheim earned his musical stripes alongside the best in the business: his first foray into
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20th-century music
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Bubblicious
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Grand
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New american musical
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Rhythmic
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Witty
Anna Deveare Smith
Playwright, professor, and Performance artist Anna Deveare Smith grounds her avant-garde theater in t
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Polychromatic
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Sincere
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Social protest
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Solo performance
Sam Shepard
Enigmatic, magnetic, elusive, and mysterious -- these words and others like them have been employed o
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Off-broadway
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Primal
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Tense
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Harold Pinter
Although acting was the first career of Harold Pinter, his stage work was abruptly eclipsed by his pr
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Post-war theater
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Repetitive
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Spare
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Theater of the absurd
Meredith Monk
Meredith Monk's eclectic mix of movement, philosophy, musical effects, and high theatrics has its ro
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Distorted
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Huge
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New musical hybrids
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Repetition
Arthur Miller
Born in New York's Harlem in 1915, Arthur Miller was not a good student. After a lackluster high scho
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Empty
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Political
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Post-war theater
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Tragic
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