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Daniel Nagrin (1917-2008).(DEATHS)(Obituary)
He was a volcano of a dancer. With piercing blue eyes, his greyhound-like body, and a sense of barely contained violence, he threw himself into every action onstage. In his marathon antiwar solo, Peloponnesian War (1968), he was a fighter, a victim, and a madman. In a more casual mood in the '70s, he chatted with the audience between solos while he changed from shoes to bare feet.
Daniel Nagrin never performed with Graham or Humphrey but charted his own path. While studying psychology at City College in NYC, he took classes with Helen Tamiris, Martha Graham, Hanya Holm, and Anna Sokolow, whose company he joined briefly in 1940. What he got from Graham was "unequivocal …
- A strange hero's influence.(Dancer Daniel Nagrin)(Brief Article)(Bibliography)
- Magazine article from: Dance Magazine Evans, Bill April 1, 2002 700+ words
I had never seen dancing like Daniel Nagrin's. His solo dances were actually "duets" with unseen others, with memories, space, music. His movement was initiated internally...
- Birthday boy. (dancer Daniel Nagrin, born in 1917, has written three books on...
- Magazine article from: Dance Magazine McDonagh, Don November 1, 1997 700+ words
Been there, done that," Daniel Nagrin might say dismissively, but instead he has written down the...involvement but a tool to explore character. His most famous solo, Strange Hero (1948), originally Strange American Hero, was about a...
- Honor roll.(ACROSS THE FLOOR)(Daniel Nagrin)(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Dance Magazine Freese, Julie Perron, Wendy September 1, 2005 700+ words
Daniel Nagrin was a mesmerizing performer. He had a smoldering intensity, as though...Company. His choreography intersected dance and theater in classics like Strange Hero (1948), which depicted a cool gangster type, and the anti-war...
- Limon Dance Company.(Joyce Theater, New York, NY)
- Magazine article from: Dance Magazine Garafola, Lynn February 1, 1996 700+ words
...to the company's first artistic director in this centenary year of her birth, while Daniel Nagrin's finely crafted character sketches, Strange Hero and Spanish Dance (both 1948), revived interest in an artist who has been unjustly neglected...
- Simply solos: visionary director of Kansas City Ballet, William Whitener, makes...
- Magazine article from: Dance Magazine Livingston, Lili Cockerille April 1, 2002 700+ words
...Sokolow, Merce Cunningham, and Daniel Nagrin, cradled between The Cloud Chamber...said. "I immediately contacted Daniel Nagrin, whom I have always admired...and his books, to ask for his Strange Hero, created in 1948." Nagrin...
- Limon Dance Company. (Joyce Theater, New York, NY)
- Magazine article from: Dance Magazine Deresiewicz, Bill July 1, 1994 700+ words
...lovely solo performances. I had seen flawless renditions of Daniel Nagrin's Spanish Dance (1948), but Nina Watt made this evocation...found the perfect role as a movieland gangster in Nagrin's Strange Hero (1948). And Carlos Orta, the company's senior man...
Source: HighBeam Research, Daniel Nagrin (1917-2008).(DEATHS)(Obituary)
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