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

Demtrio Braceros is the creator of Cayuga Park, a sculpture garden in the Excelsior neighborhood, in San Francisco. Braceros emigrated from the Philippines in 1973, and began working as a groundskeeper for San Francisco Parks and Recreation. In 1986, he was assigned to Cayuga Park, an overgrown fi