Born and raised in New York, John Bonafede first took his fine art to a serious level when he was accepted into New York Summer School for the Arts (NYSSA) at SUNY Fredonia while in high school. He then attended Syracuse University for painting and then graduated to the School of Visual Arts in Manha
Trisha Brown, the most widely acclaimed choreographer to emerge from the postmodern era, first came to public notice when she began showing her work with the Judson Dance Theater in the 1960s. Along with like-minded artists including Yvonne Rainer, Steve Paxton, and Simone Forte, she pushed the limit
In the early Eighties, when the artistic climate allowed dance to gain ever greater prominence, 20-year-old Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker presented her very first piece, Asch. A former pupil of MUDRA, the school founded by Maurice Béjart, she was to give an entirely new orientation to dance in Flanders