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unusual facts about Contemporary dance



Dance India Dance

The show features a variety of Indian cultural and international dance styles ranging across a broad spectrum of classical, contemporary, Bollywood, hip-hop, jazz, Kalaripayattu, Salsa, Samba and musical theatre styles, amongst others, with many sub-genres within these categories represented.

Enzo Celli

Botega Dance Company's dancers technical background includes contemporary, ballet, break dance and hip-hop.

Flying Steps

Under the artistic direction of Christoph Hagel, in 2010 they presented the dance performance Red Bull Flying Bach, with breakdance and contemporary dance to the music The Well-Tempered Clavier by Johann Sebastian Bach.

Jessica Messenger

Jessica then decided to pursue her strength which was contemporary dance which led her to the theatre and musical theatre which led to an opportunity to perform and the Royal Albert Hall for the Mardi Gras.

ODC/Dance

ODC/Dance (formerly, the Oberlin Dance Company) is a contemporary dance company founded in 1971 by current artistic director Brenda Way.

Thierry De Mey

After studying film at the IAD, he continued to studying music composition and contemporary dance after meeting Fernand Schirren, for whose works he has written original incidental music.


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Brenda Way

Brenda Way is the Artistic Director/Founder of ODC/Dance (Oberlin Dance Company)ODC has since become the premier contemporary dance company of the West Coast, performing for more than 50,000 people a year.

Complexions Contemporary Ballet

Dwight Rhoden has created over 90 ballets for Complexions, as well as numerous other companies, including Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, the Arizona Ballet, the Aspen Santa Fe Ballet Company, the Dance Theater of Harlem, Pittsburgh Ballet Theater, Dayton Contemporary Dance Company, the Joffrey Ballet and New York City Ballet.

Credo in Us

It was composed to accompany a piece of contemporary dance choreographed by his partner and collaborator Merce Cunningham and choreographer Jean Erdman, who performed the piece at its premiere in Bennington College, Vermont on August 1, 1942.

From the Towers of the Moon

In 1993, the opera was adapted as a contemporary dance piece called Four Towers by choreographer Christopher House for the Toronto Dance Theatre.

Guesch Patti

Guesch Patti first started her career at dancing at age nine when she performed in a ballet at the Opéra National de Paris, working with Roland Petit, then at contemporary dance with Carolyn Carlson and Pina Bausch, and finally at variety dance on television.

I Am Kurious Oranj

The album was written as the soundtrack for the ballet I Am Curious, Orange, produced by contemporary dance group Michael Clark & Company, and themed loosely around the 300th anniversary of William of Orange's accession to the English throne.

Inspired by Bach

Falling Down Stairs, directed by Barbara Willis Sweete, shows the cooperation between Ma and American contemporary dance choreographer Mark Morris and his Dance Group.

Julius Brewster Cotton

While in Dayton, Ohio, Julius was a freelance journalist for the Dayton Weekly News as well as the Dayton Daily News as well as performing and traveling with the Dayton Contemporary Dance Company.

Kyriakos Sfetsas

After that period, several of his works are performed in renowned international contemporary music festivals (Royan, Reims, Bordeaux and Paris); at the same time, he works on a regular basis with the contemporary dance group of Vitry and the choreographer Michel Cazerta.

Lateduster

In 2003, Lateduster released the first DVD Plain Old Andrea, With A Gun, a collaborative project with Alaska-born choreographer Emily Johnson and her contemporary dance company Catalyst.

Louis Dufort

He currently divides his time between composing for the Marie Chouinard contemporary dance company (he composed the music for the choreography of Le cri du monde, which premiered in Toronto on March 21, 2000), his work with the artistic committee of ACREQ, and the creation of hybrid and unbridled musical experimentation.

Patch Theatre Company

The Adelaide Festival Centre Trust and Come Out '99 presented Ken Evans' and Jonathan Taylor's Visible Darkness, a collision of Film Noir, contemporary dance, puppetry and illusion.

Reinhild Hoffmann

From 1965 to 1970, she studied contemporary dance at the Volkwang School in Essen with Susanne Linke and Pina Bausch and graduated with a degree in dance education.

Riccardo Buscarini

In 2010 he received a danceWEB scholarship for Impulstanz, Vienna's international contemporary dance festival and one of the 16 choreographic commissions of The Place Prize, sponsored by Bloomberg.

Robin Howard

Following the company's successful tour, he established Graham-inspired classes, and by 1967 he had founded the London Contemporary Dance Group (afterward renamed the London Contemporary Dance Theatre) and the Contemporary Dance Trust, of which he was director general (1966–88) and life president (1988–89).

Streb

Elizabeth Streb, American choreographer, performer, and teacher of contemporary dance

The Place

Since then, under the auspices of its founder Robin Howard, its first artistic director Robert Cohan, and subsequent directors Richard Alston, John Ashford, Nigel Hinds and Veronica Lewis, it has led the way in the development of contemporary dance in the UK.

Through founding in 2001 with RADA the Conservatoire for Dance and Drama, London Contemporary Dance School became the first dance school to provide funding for its students which compares to that for students of other disciplines in the UK.