The Light and the Fantastic: Choreographer Alwin Nikolais

From: The Washington Post | Date: September 18, 1988| Author: | Copyright information

When the Nikolais Dance Theatre arrives at the Terrace Theater Tuesday night for a week's engagement, it will mark its first Washington performances in 11 years, as well as the company's Kennedy Center debut.

Except, that is, for its appearance at the Opera House last December as part of the Kennedy Center Honors program, when one of the awardees was troupe founder-director Alwin Nikolais, better known to dance devotees as "Nik."

In answer to the phone query "How are you?," Nik replied from his New York studio a few days ago, "I'm fine." He'd weathered some recent surgery, he said, and ...

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