Dance: Nikolais Dance Theatre King's Theatre Edinburgh ooo99.(Features) From: The Independent (London, England) | Date: September 6, 2004 | COPYRIGHT 2004 Independent Newspapers (UK) Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Byline: Zoe Anderson

BOOKS FROM the 1970s on dance, illustrated in black and white and (sparingly) in colour, always devote at least one of those colour pages to Alwin Nikolais. They had to: he choreographed as much for the lighting as for his dancers. Spots, stripes and blocks of colour turn the bodies underneath into abstract groups and squiggles. Film it in black and white, and half the show would vanish.

Nikolais died in 1993. His dance company no longer e...