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Daniel Nagrin’s Dance Portraits: Choreographing Agency

Dance Scholar Dr Diane Wawrejko, PhD, MFA, CMT, has researched and written extensively on Daniel Nagrin’s influence on Modern American Dance. Dr Wawrejko and Brenda Farnell, co-editor at the Journal for the Anthropological Study of Human Movement, have recently given the Nagrin Foundation permission to post Dr Wawrejko’s 2012 JASHM academic paper on Nagrin, Daniel … Continue reading Daniel Nagrin’s Dance Portraits: Choreographing Agency

This and That: Jewishness in the Dances of Daniel Nagrin

Dance Scholar Dr Diane Wawrejko, PhD, MFA, CMT, presented her academic paper This and That: Jewishness in the Dances of Daniel Nagrin at Jews and Jewishness in the Dance World, an Arizona State University (ASU) Jewish Studies conference, held October 13th-15th 2018. An excerpt from This and That: Jewishness in the Dances of Daniel Nagrin summarizes … Continue reading This and That: Jewishness in the Dances of Daniel Nagrin

Thom Cobb Video Transcript (unedited)

The following video transcript is unedited and was made via Youtube and Firebug. This research tool is currently under development. Return to the Nagrin Legacy Interviews page. a nice time job to your BB I professor emeritus which means I retired fromSlippery Rock University and severe I Pennsylvania and now freelance thing alot and I’m also president … Continue reading Thom Cobb Video Transcript (unedited)

Adair Landborn Video Transcript (unedited)

The following video transcript is unedited and was made via Youtube and Firebug. This research tool is currently under development. Return to the Nagrin Legacy Interviews page. when they visit their land born and I am an assistant professor clinicalassistant professor of ethnic rheology and also the curator for cross culturaldance resources collections at ASU I … Continue reading Adair Landborn Video Transcript (unedited)

Dance: New Nagrin Solo Looks Into The Abstract

MAY 13, 1982 By Anna Kisselgoff As both dancer and choreographer, Daniel Nagrin Is intense, powerful and rather angry. All these qualities come together In his 1981 solo “Poems Oft the Wall” and, more obliquely if just as forcefully, in his newest solo “Dance.” Both works make up his current program at the Studio Theater … Continue reading Dance: New Nagrin Solo Looks Into The Abstract