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Charles Moore - Great Buildings Online (406 words) |
 | Charles Willard Moore was born in Benton Harbor, Michigan in 1925. |
| Moore was a teacher during much of his career, at the University of California at Berkeley, at Yale, and at the University of California Los Angeles. |
| Moore designed several buildings during this period that illustrate his dissidence with the moralistic position that much of modern architecture assumes. |
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Great Performances: Free To Dance - Biographies - Charles Moore (341 words) |
| In 1959 Moore began teaching Dunham's technique at the Clark Center in New York City, then continued at the New Dance Group, Harlem Youth Activities, and Hunter and Brooklyn colleges of the City College of New York; he also taught in Jamaica and Europe. |
| Though Moore never went to Africa, reconstructions of his dances such as "Bundao," "Maiden's Stick Dance," "Spear Dance," and "African Congo" were highly respected, and they inspired similar dances in most repertories of African dance companies in America. |
| Moore died in New York City in 1986, survived by his wife, the dancer Ella Thompson, whom he had married in 1960. |
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