Adam Peck was born November 19, 1937 in Los Angeles, California. With his sister, brother, mother and her many husbands, he lived variously in and around Los Angeles, Salem, Oregon, Seattle, Washington, Las Vegas, Nevada and Wichita, Kansas. Adam spent four years in the US Navy whe

José Limón was a very important figure in the development in modern dance.  In 1928 he moved to NYC after studying as an art major for a year at UCLA.  New York was where he saw his first dance performance which "simply and irrevocably changed my life."  

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Yvonne Rainer is a dancer, choreographer and filmmaker.  She helped start the Judson Dance Theater, and was at the forefront of the postmodern dance movement in the 1960's. She is known for stripping dance of frill and narrative.  The emphasis being on everyday, or pedestrian movement, i