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Pages in category "Contemporary dance choreographers" The following 77 pages are in this category, out of 77 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
This is a list of choreographers: A. Aaliyah; Paula Abdul; Kyle Abraham; Alvin Ailey; Debbie Allen; Richard Alston; Sir Frederick Ashton; ... Dance This page was last ...
Contemporary dance draws on both classical ballet and modern dance, whereas postmodern dance was a direct and opposite response to modern dance. Merce Cunningham is considered to be the first choreographer to "develop an independent attitude towards modern dance" and defy the ideas that were established by it.
Tabitha and Napoleon D'umo a.k.a. "Nappytabs" - dance teachers, choreographers, and creative directors; Isadora Duncan - "mother of modern dance" Katherine Dunham - pioneer of black dance, anthropologist, dancer, choreographer, creator of the Dunham Technique; Aurélie Dupont - French ballet dancer and artistic director of Paris Opera Ballet
classical ballet and contemporary dance (about 50/50) Amsterdam: Netherlands: AD Ted Brandsen 1961–present DV8 Physical Theatre: contemporary dance with visual media London: England: AD Lloyd Newson: 1986–present ECNAD: contemporary South East Asia: Singapore: AD Lim Chin Huat & Tan How Choon 1996–present Editta Braun Company: body ...
She is best known for her hip-hop style and contemporary dance choreography. Bessie Clayton (c. 1875 –1948), considered the mother of American toe-tap dancing; Jack Cole (1911–1974), American dancer, choreographer, and theatre director known as the father of theatrical jazz dance
In the Central Modern period (c. 1923–1946), choreographers Martha Graham, Doris Humphrey, Katherine Dunham, Charles Weidman, and Lester Horton sought to develop distinctively American movement styles and vocabularies, and developed clearly defined and recognizable dance training systems.
Academic credit for dance courses began in 1972. She served as Head of Dance until June 2008, and was joined on the faculty by colleagues such as modern dance choreographers Geula Abrahams, Jim May, Mark Taylor, Diann Sichel, Sally Hess, Elizabeth Keen, Sara Hook, Lorn MaDougal, Aleta Hayes, Dyane Harvey, Meghan Durham and Rebecca Lazier.