Alexander Calder brought motion to sculpture. An incredibly playful spirit, Calder channeled his joy into a deeply informed and influential body of work that spans mediums from simple line drawings to massive steel sculptures. Calder's work reminds us of childhood fantasies like infinite slides and

Candy, Collage, Elegant, Event, Kinetic, Kinetic art, Machinistic, Modern sculpture, Playful, Pop, Rhythmic, Spare

Considered the modern mistress of complex movement, Twyla Tharp takes Merce Cunningham's structural bylaws to their Postmodern conclusions. Tharp's propensity toward permutation and highly abstract schemes has renewed the maverick spirit of Modern Dance. An affluent child of suburbia, Tharp enjoy

Collage, Kinetic, Loose, Pure movement, Quirky

When Alvin Ailey stumbled into Lester Horton's dance theater at UCLA, he abandoned his original plan to major in foreign languages. Instead, he moved to fulfill his destiny and become one of the finest, most influential, and most beloved Modern choreographers of this century. Just one year after his

African american fiction, Euphoric, Expansive, Kinetic, Political, Polychromatic, Spiritual