Top 3 Quotes & Sayings by Alwin Nikolais

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Last updated on September 18, 2024.

Alwin Nikolais was an American choreographer, dancer, composer, musician, teacher. He had created the Nikolais Dance Theatre, and was best known for his self-designed innovative costume, lighting and production design. Nikolais gave the world a new vision of dance and was named the "father of multi-media theater."

American - Choreographer | November 25, 1910 - May 8, 1993

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A cat is never a presentation, but an innocent happening.

Alwin Nikolais

Basic dance--and I should qualify the word basic--is primarily concerned with motion. So immediately you will say but the basketball player is concerned with motion. That is so--but he is not concerned with it primarily. His action is a means towards an end beyond motion. In basic dance the motion is its own end--that is, it is concerned with nothing beyond itself.

Alwin Nikolais

Women should set themselves forth attractively but innocently, like a cat. A cat is never a presentation, but an innocent happening.

Alwin Nikolais