Remembering Dance Classes With Alwin Nikolais

Phyllis Lamhut: “[L]et’s say he was working on how do you transfer your focus to points in space? How do you work with your body to indicate points in space? We would improvise and figure it out. … Or he’d say, ‘How would you use gravity?’ He didn’t tell us how to do anything. ‘Where is it? What would you do?'”