Modern dance

Abstract University of Maryland (UMD) Professor Emeritus Alcine Joseph Wiltz, III was born in New Orleans, Louisiana on March 16, 1941. He was a professor of dance at UMD from 1983 to 2008, and he was the chair of the department of dance there from 1983 to 2004. In 1976, he co-founded the Mid America Dance Company (MADCO), now known as the Modern American Dance Company. He was also the founding chair of the Department of Dance at Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville. The Alcine Wiltz papers...

Abstract Max Waldman (1919-1981) was an American photographer of the performing arts, with a focus on theatre and dance in New York City in the middle twentieth century. Waldman actively documented the theatre and dance communities in New York from the mid-1960s until his death in 1981. Waldman was particularly drawn to more experimental forms of dance and theatre and he documented everyone from Merce Cunningham to the Living Theater to Mikhail Baryshnikov. The Max Waldman collection of performing...

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Robert Ellis Dunn (1928-1996) was an American dancer, choreographer, company leader, educator, musician, and curator of dance collections. The collection consists of videocassettes and papers. The videocassette recordings are of dances choreographed by Dunn, workshops taught by Dunn, panel discussions featuring Dunn, or video-recorded informal discussions including Dunn. Topics covered in Laban Movement Analysis, Judson Dance Theater, and other issues pertaining to Postmodern dance.