• 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,
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