Choreography

Blast

March 25, 2018Arts, Culture & Media

Blast is a spectacle created by marching bands, dancers, and synchronized drummers. Cast members explain what happens when someone falls off the stage and the show must go on. Produced by Andrea Murray.

Martha Graham

March 25, 2018Arts, Culture & Media

Novelist Rebecca Goldstein on Light

March 25, 2018Arts, Culture & Media

Martha Graham

March 25, 2018Arts, Culture & Media

Merce Cunningham’s Digital Dance

March 25, 2018Arts, Culture & Media

Choreographer David Dorfman on Touch

March 25, 2018Arts, Culture & Media

Kurt Andersen and choreographer David Dorfman explore the tactile and discover the significance of touch for dancers, sculptors, and musicians. Dorfman, an athlete turned dancer, is a choreographer, teacher, performer, and in 1985 founded David Dorfman Dance, a modern dance company which exuberantly combines fierce athleticism with humor and the stories of everyday life. Lauded […]

Loie Fuller, Goddess of Light

March 25, 2018Arts, Culture & Media

Through her pioneering dance performances at the turn of the last century, Loie Fuller magically captured the theatrical possibilities of light. (Originally aired: April 21, 2001)

Choreographer Elizabeth Streb

March 25, 2018Arts, Culture & Media

From crashing into mats to diving through glass, choreographer Elizabeth Streb aims to expose the body’s vulnerability and its durability in her dances.

Trisha Brown

March 25, 2018Arts, Culture & Media

Trisha Brown is a modern dance choreographer whose focus has changed over the past 30 years, but she continues to return to some of the same gestures and ideas.

Merce Cunningham’s Digital Dance

March 25, 2018Arts, Culture & Media

The 82-year-old modern dance master Merce Cunningham describes whathappened when he began choreographing on a PC. (Originally aired: June 9, 2001)