Murray Louis was a dancer for Alwin Nikolais long before I worked with Nik. By the time I joined the company Murray was a choreographer in his own right, an artistic director, master teacher, and performer who had founded the Murray Louis Dance Company which shared studio space with the Nikolais Dance Theatre. Murray was witty and sarcastic and loving and caustic and mercurial and in addition to dance he loved to write. He had a number of his essays published in Dance Magazine and eventually published two books of his ruminations, Inside Dance and On Dance. In the first of those two books, which sits on my office bookshelf, there is an essay titled “Light vs. Lighting” which reflects Murray’s thought process as ...
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