Alenikoff, Frances (1920–)

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Alenikoff, Frances (1920–)

American dancer. Born Aug 20, 1920, in New York, NY.

Worked in composition workshops with Doris Humphrey, Anna Sokolow, Lester Horton and others; founded own Aviv Theater of Dance and Song (1959); began integrating film, slides, and musical scores in multimedia works (1968); participated in Kei Takei's Light, part VIII (c. 1974); collaborated as choreographer with numerous visual artists, poets and composers and created photomontages for exhibits; also worked for theater in Zaide (1957), Josephine Baker Show on Broadway (1964), Joan and the Devil (1978); worked on films including Alenka (1969) and Shaping Things—A Choreographic Journal (1977); works of choreography include Incantation (1956); And the Desert Shall Rejoice (1959); Shango (1963); Interior Journey (1967); Territories and Refractions (1968); The One of No Way (1970); Pomegranate (1973); Moon of the Break Up of Ice (1974); Fresh Water-Earth (1976); Line Drawings (1978).