Robert Whitman created some of the earliest and most important performance works of the 1960s. In his performances, the poetic and often...

In the spring of 1961 Simone Forti presented a program titled Five Dance Constructions and Some Other Things in a concert series organized...

In 1986, dancer Steve Paxton began examining the spine he had observed in the practice of Contact Improvisation, a duet movement form he...

Trisha Brown, one of the most acclaimed choreographers of contemporary dance, first came to notice in New York in the 1960s. Along with...

In 1966 ten New York artists and thirty engineers and scientists from Bell Telephone Laboratories collaborated on a series of innovative...

William Forsythe has brought about a shift of paradigms in contemporary dance. The vocabulary of his choreographies redefines body, space,...