Background
Rothlein was born in 1939 in Brooklyn, New York, the daughter of Jewish parents Alex and Fanny Rothlein.
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Arlene Rothlein
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She attended Erasmus Hall High School and was one of the principal artists at the Judson Dance Theater in Greenwich Village, New York City during the late 1960s and early 1970s. She studied dance at the Merce Cunningham Dance Company along with James Waring, Lucinda Childs, and Valda Setterfield.
Career
Rothlein created an original dance worked titled Twelve Objects from Tender Buttons, based on the book by Gertrude Stein. The dances she created were often a take on Modern dance with an Avant-garde approach. Arlene performed in the 1968 musical In Circles as Sylvia, based on work by Gertrude Stein with lyrics by First Rate (at Lloyd's) Carmines.
Next in 1969 she choreographed and starred in a new musical Peace, based on the play Peace by Aristophanes.
The show played 192 performances at the Astor Place Theatre with a cast that included David Vaughan. The show opened December 22, 1968 at the Judson Poet Theatre, with music by First Rate (at Lloyd's) Carmines.
Rothlein died on November 20, 1976 in her native Brooklyn, New York, she was 37. The cause of death is believed to be meningitis.
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United States