Post Modern Dance 1950s to present Merce Cunningham American 1919 2009 Chance Dance The first modern choreographer Invented the prepared piano playing strings in an unconventional way to make unique sounds Choreography Points in Space 1986 Composer John Cage unusual music strange noises Alwin Nikolais Noumenon Mobilis 1953 Judson Dance Theatre 1960s and 1970s Three Judson Church Choreographers Yvonne Rainer b 1934 Choreographed Trio A 1965 Wrote the No Manifesto Trisha Brown b 1936 Choreographed Accumulation 1971 Lucinda Childs b 1940 Simple traveling patterns repeated Choreographed Dance 1979 Phillip Glass was the composer Dance Theatre Bill T Jones American 1952 Bill T Jones Arnie Zane Dance Company 1982 Kennedy Center Award 2010 Choreography Still Here 1994 Based off the fact that his friend had AIDS Explores the life of different people with terminal illnesses Two Parts Still reactions to diagnosis of terminal illness Here living with death D Man in the Waters 1989
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