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Erick Hawkins
American modern-dance choreographer and dancer
Frederick "Erick" Hawkins (April 23, &#;&#; November 23, ) was an American modern-dance choreographer and dancer.[1]
Early life
[edit]Frederick Hawkins was born in Trinidad, Colorado, on April 23, He majored in Greek civilization at Harvard University, graduating in (although Class of ).[2] A performance by the German dancers Harald Kreutzberg and Yvonne Georgi so impressed him that he went to Austria to study dance with the former. Later, he studied at the School of American Ballet.[1]
Career
[edit]Soon, he was dancing with George Balanchine's American Ballet. In , he choreographed his first dance, Show Piece, which was performed by Ballet Caravan. The next year, Hawkins was the first man to dance with the company of the famous modern dancer and choreographer Martha Graham. In , he officially joined her troupe, dancing male lead in a number of her works, including Appalac
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Martha Graham Dance Company
Dance company founded by Martha Graham
The Martha Graham Dance Company, founded by Martha Graham in , is both the oldest dance company in the United States and the oldest integrated dance company. The company is critically acclaimed in the artistic world and has been recognized as "one of the great dance companies of the world" by the New York Times and as "one of the seven wonders of the artistic universe" by the Washington Post.[1]
Many of the great 20th and 21st century modern dancers and choreographers began at the Martha Graham Dance Company including: Merce Cunningham, Erick Hawkins, Pearl Lang, Pascal Rioult, Miriam Pandor, Anna Sokolow, and Paul Taylor. The repertoire of works also includes guest performances from Mikhail Baryshnikov, Claire Bloom, Margot Fonteyn, Liza Minnelli, Rudolf Nureyev, Maya Plisetskaya, and Kathleen Turner.
Past
[edit]Location and inception
[edit]Graham began teaching in her studio at 66 Fifth A
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Martha Graham
American dancer and choreographer (–)
Martha Graham (May 11, – April 1, )[1] was an American modern dancer and choreographer, whose style, the Graham technique, reshaped American dance and is still taught worldwide.[2]
Graham danced and taught for over seventy years. She was the first dancer to perform at the White House, travel abroad as a cultural ambassador, and receive the highest civilian award of the US: the Presidential Medal of Freedom with Distinction. In her lifetime she received honors ranging from the Key to the City of Paris to Japan's Imperial Order of the Precious Crown.
She said, in the documentary The Dancer Revealed: "I have spent all my life with dance and being a dancer. It's permitting life to use you in a very intense way. Sometimes it is not pleasant. Sometimes it is fearful. But nevertheless it is inevitable."[3]
Founded in (the same year as Graham's professional dance company), the Martha Graham School