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Transcript: Choreographer Eric Hawkins Dies of Prostate Cancer
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- NPR Weekend Edition - Sunday
- Article date:
- November 27, 1994
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KORVA COLEMAN, Host: Modern dance choreographer Eric Hawkins died
this past week in New York. He was 85. Hawkins was known for his
break from formal ballet technique, even though he'd studied under
the renowned master, George Balanchine, in the 1930s. Hawkins never
adopted the Balanchine method, which de-emphasizes the individual
or personality in favor of the group. He also refused to follow the
ultra-modern styles of his contemporaries.
ERIC HAWKINS: There are a number of dancers in the modern dance who
I think are really kind of interested in what I call the psychological
dimension. They're interested in showing- trying to shock the audience,
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