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Maxine Hong Kingston
Novelist Maxine Hong Kingston was born in the United States to Chinese immigrant parents. Her writing centers on the experience of Chinese-American...
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Alvin Ailey
Choreographer and dancer Alvin Ailey transformed the U.S. dance scene in the 1960s with his work Revelations, a powerful and moving dance which...
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David Bowie
David Bowie is a performer on the cutting edge of music culture, whose glamour, fluid sexual identity, and mystery influenced musicians such as...
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Marlene Dietrich
Marlene Dietrich is a mythical woman and actress who worked actively on the creation of her myth. Her ability to create and manipulate a...
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Ernst Lubitsch
Film director, actor, and producer Ernst Lubitsch rose to fame in the 1910s in Germany, and emigrated to Hollywood in 1929. In the United States...
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Merce Cunningham
The dancer and choreographer Merce Cunningham influenced 20th century art with his postmodern dance and his collaborations with other important...
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Modern Dance
Modern Dance was born at the beginning of the twentieth century out of the need to recreate dance, to tear it away from the formal, stifling rigor...
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Isadora Duncan
The great American icon of dance, Isadora Duncan, who rose to prominence early in the twentieth century and met a tragic death at age 50, was ahead...
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New Landscapes: Community Art, Video Process and Fantasies of Disability - After Image
Video allows us to tell our stories differently, to renegotiate the everyday, to engage layers of meaning, silence, image and sound in ways that...
Afterimage, 11/01/01 by Petra Kuppers · More from publication
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