# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alwin-nikolais
# Generated: 2026-08-14T09:46:37.557Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alwin-nikolais"
name: "Alwin Nikolais"
slug: "alwin-nikolais"
description: "Alwin Nikolais was an American choreographer, dancer, composer, musician, and teacher. He created the Nikolais Dance Theatre, and was known for his self-designed innovative costume, lighting, and production design. Nikolais gave the world a new vision of dance and was named the \"father of multi-media theater.\""
tagline: "American choreographer (1910-1993)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/51/Alwin_Nikolais_Headshot.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1910-11-25"
deathDate: "1993-05-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
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  country:  null
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platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump