Steve Paxton is a dancer and choreographer known as one of the founders of contact improvisation (a dance form in which two or more people move while remaining in constant and spontaneous contact).  He has researched the fiction of cultured dance and the 'truth' of improvisation for

Yvonne Rainer is a dancer, choreographer and filmmaker.  She helped start the Judson Dance Theater, and was at the forefront of the postmodern dance movement in the 1960's. She is known for stripping dance of frill and narrative.  The emphasis being on everyday, or pedestrian movement, i

Gideon Obarzanek is a choreographer and the Artistic Director of Chunky Move, which he founded in 1995. He danced with the Queensland Ballet and the Sydney Dance Company before working as an independent performer and choreographer with various dance companies and independent projects within Austra

Edouard Lock is a choreographer/performer, who studied film at Concordia University.  He founded Lock-Danseurs in 1980, which then evolved into La La La Human Steps.  "Oranges" (1981) won him a Jean A. Chalmers Award for choreography, and "Human Sex" (1985) won a Bessie Award for choreog