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Born November 24, 1934 (age 91) • San Francisco • California
Movement / Style avant-garde
Overhead view of a Busby Berkeley dance sequence from Footlight Parade, showing dancers arranged in a precise, symmetrical circular formation with outstretched arms and legs.
Busby Berkeley
American director
Herbert Ross
Herbert Ross
American dancer and film director
Chantal Akerman
Chantal Akerman
Belgian filmmaker
Bob Fosse with a beard and open-collared shirt, looking to the side in a black and white publicity still from the film All That Jazz.
Bob Fosse
American choreographer and director
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Stanley Donen
American film and dance director
George Balanchine.
George Balanchine
Russian-American choreographer
Gene Kelly as Don Lockwood in Singin' in the Rain, joyfully hanging from a lamppost with an umbrella during a nighttime rainstorm on a city street.
Gene Kelly
American actor, dancer, and director
Judy Garland and Fred Astaire in Easter Parade
Charles Walters
American dancer, choreographer, and film director
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Anna Sokolow
American choreographer and dancer
Katherine Dunham
Katherine Dunham
American dancer, choreographer, and anthropologist
Alvin Ailey, Jr.
Alvin Ailey, Jr.
American choreographer
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Stan Brakhage
American filmmaker
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Trisha Brown
American choreographer
Uday Shankar
Uday Shankar
Indian dancer
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Mbongeni Ngema
South African playwright, composer, choreographer, and director
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Mani Kaul
Indian filmmaker
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Julien Duvivier
French director
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Michael Cimino
American director
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Jesse Lasky
American producer
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Judith Malina
American theater director and actress