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| x Paul Taylor Dance Company |
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Paul Taylor |
Paul Taylor Dance Company, is a contemporary dance company, formed by Paul Taylor, an American choreographer of the 20th century. One of the early touring companies of American modern dance, the Company has "performed in more than 500 cities in 62...
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| x Limbs Dance Company |
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The Limbs Dance Company was a contemporary dance company formed in the late 1970s in New Zealand. Their first tour was 1978-9.
The artistic directors were: Chris Jannides (1977 - 1979), Mary-Jane O'Reilly (1978 - 1986) and Cath Cardiff (1986 - 1989)...
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| x AXIS Dance Company |
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Thais Mazur |
AXIS Dance Company is a professional contemporary dance company and dance education organization based in Oakland, California. It was founded in 1987 and was one of the first contemporary dance companies in the world to consciously develop...
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| x Katherine Dunham Company | Katherine Dunham |
The Katherine Dunham Company, a troupe of dancers, singers, actors and musicians, was the first African American modern dance company. It descended from Ballet Negre, a student troupe founded by Katherine Dunham, which later became the Negro Dance...
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| x Robert Moses' Kin | Robert Moses | ||||
| x Brown Badmaash Dance Company |
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Brown Badmaash Dance Company, often referred to as Brown Badmaash, is a nationally competitive South Asian fusion dance team based at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. As a South Asian fusion team, Brown Badmaash incorporates music from...
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| x Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater |
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Alvin Ailey |
The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater is a modern dance company based in New York, New York. It was founded in 1958 by choreographer and dancer Alvin Ailey. It is made up of 30 dancers as well as artistic director Judith Jamison and associate...
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| x Batsheva Dance Company |
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Tel Aviv | Bethsabée de Rothschild | 1964 |
The Batsheva Dance Company (Hebrew: להקת בת שבע) is an internationally acclaimed dance company based in Tel Aviv, Israel. It was founded by Martha Graham and Baroness Batsheva De Rothschild in 1964.
From its inception until 1979, the prima...
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| x Yana Lewis Dance Company |
The Yana Lewis Dance Company or YLDC is an ensemble of Indian and international dancers based in Bangalore, India. The company was founded by Yana Lewis, a ballerina and choreographer from the UK. The Company's repertoire—all original works...
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| x Agnes de Mille Dance Theatre | Agnes de Mille | 1953 |
The Agnes de Mille Dance Theatre toured the United States from 1953 to 1954 under the aegis of producer Sol Hurok. The company offered an overview of Agnes de Mille's choreography to that date, with the addition of Anna Sokolow's "Short Lecture &...
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| x Alonzo King’s LINES Ballet | |||||
| x American Chamber Ballet |
The American Chamber Ballet was a troupe of 15 professional dancers founded by Joel Benjamin.
Though they operating out of Carnegie Hall, the company rehearsed at Trutti Gasparinetti's studio. They performed and toured throughout the United States...
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| x American Indian Dance Theatre |
American Indian Dance Theatre is a professional performing arts company presenting the dances and songs of Native Americans in the United States and the First Nations of Canada. The group was founded in 1987 and includes members from many different...
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| x American National Ballet | Duluth | Armando Maldonado | 2001 |
The American National Ballet was a ballet company and school located in Duluth, Minnesota. The company was founded by Artistic Director Armando Maldonado in 2001. The company performed works in an eclectic mix of styles, incorporating elements of...
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| x Atlanta Ballet |
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Atlanta | Dorothy Alexander | 1929 |
Atlanta Ballet is a ballet company, located in Atlanta, Georgia. It is the nation’s longest continuously performing ballet company and the State Ballet of Georgia.
Atlanta Ballet was founded in 1929 by Dorothy Alexander as the Dorothy Alexander...
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| x Atlanta Festival Ballet |
The Atlanta Festival Ballet Company is composed of ten professional dancers and student apprentices who have dedicated themselves to the discipline of dance performance. The Company began as the vision of Co-Artistic Director Gregory Aaron, and made...
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| x Australian Dance Theatre |
The Australian Dance Theatre (ADT) is a contemporary dance company based in Adelaide, South Australia established in 1965 by Elizabeth Cameron Dalman,. Dalman sought to 'open the horizons for provocative contemporary and cutting edge dance'.
The...
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| x The Carpetbag Brigade |
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Oakland |
The Carpetbag Brigade is a touring physical theater company based in Oakland, California, best known for its breathtaking acrobatic stilt choreography.The Carpetbag Brigade will be long-term, featured performers at the 2007 Universal Forum of...
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| x Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet |
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Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet is a company dedicated to the continued development of dance by providing choreographers a comprehensive environment for creation, and curating work for presentation to a worldwide audience. The company is based on...
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| x Central California Ballet Company |
The Central California Ballet was the Central Valley's first semi-professional dance company. It was created by Diane K. Mosier, also founder of the Lively Arts Foundation, which sponsors the CCB.
Members of the company, consist mainly of teenagers...
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| x Chunky Move |
Chunky Move is an Australian contemporary dance company from Southbank, Victoria
It was founded in 1995 and debuted at the Melbourne International Arts Festival with artistic director Gideon Obarzanek.
The company’s work is diverse and has included...
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| x CityDance Ensemble |
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CityDance Ensemble was founded in 1996 and is a contemporary repertory dance company based in Washington, D.C. and North Bethesda, Maryland. CityDance Ensemble, Inc, is composed of the dance company and three other divisions: an outreach education...
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| x Cluj-Napoca Romanian Opera |
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Cluj-Napoca Romanian National Opera (Romanian: Opera Naţională Română din Cluj-Napoca) is a public opera house and ballet company institution in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. The Opera shares the same building with the National Theatre.
The opera house was...
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| x Columbia City Jazz Dance Company |
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| x Complexions Contemporary Ballet |
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New York City | Desmond Richardson | 1994 |
Complexions Contemporary Ballet is a contemporary ballet company founded in 1994 by Artistic Directors Dwight Rhoden and Desmond Richardson based in New York City comprising about twenty classical and contemporary dancers. Complexions performs...
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| x Dance Theatre of Harlem |
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Dance Theatre of Harlem is a ballet company and school of the allied arts founded in Harlem, New York City, USA in 1969 by Arthur Mitchell and Karel Shook. The company has not performed since 2004, however its Dancing Through Barriers Ensemble...
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| x DV8 Physical Theatre |
DV8 Physical Theatre was formed in 1986 by an independent collective of dancers who, they claim, had become frustrated and disillusioned with the preoccupation and direction of most dance. The company has produced 16 dance pieces, which have toured...
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| x Fire of Anatolia |
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The Fire of Anatolia or Anadolu Ateşi is a Turkish dance group consisting of 120 dancers, several choreographers and other technical staff. The group has performed in more than 60 countries from the USA to China and Japan, in front of an audience of...
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| x Folsom Lake Civic Ballet | Folsom |
Folsom Lake Civic Ballet is the official dance company for Folsom, California, USA. It is primarily a pre-professional ballet, and most performers are auditioned from the Folsom dance school Hawkins School of Performing Arts although adult dancers...
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| x The Forsythe Company |
The Forsythe Company is a dance ensemble of eighteen dancers based in Dresden, Germany founded by William Forsythe following the closure of the Frankfurt Ballet. It seeks to build on Forsythe's work there, "to explore a new dramaturgy of social and...
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| x The Indigo Belly Dance Company |
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The Indigo Belly Dance Company is a tribal fusion style belly dance company based in San Francisco. It was founded by Rachel Brice in 2003. Its members include Brice, Mardi Love, and Zoe Jakes. Past members include Sharon Kihara, Ariellah Aflalo,...
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| x Joffrey Ballet |
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Chicago | Robert Joffrey | 1956 |
The Joffrey Ballet is a dance company founded in 1956. From 1995 to 2004, the company was known as The Joffrey Ballet of Chicago. It is considered one of the foremost ballet companies in the world. The company regularly performs classical ballets...
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| x Judson Dance Theater |
Judson Dance Theater was an informal group of dancers who performed at the Judson Memorial Church, New York between 1962 and 1964. The group of artists that formed Judson Dance Theater are considered the founders of Postmodern dance. The theater...
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| x La La La Human Steps |
La La La Human Steps is a leading Québécois contemporary dance group in Canada, known for its energetic, acrobatic style that often involves fast-paced and athletic physical contact. Its signature move is the barrel jump, which is like a horizontal...
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| x Lar Lubovitch Dance Company |
Lar Lubovitch Dance Company (founded in 1968) is a dance company based in New York City and founded by Lar Lubovitch in the late 1960s. They have performed at Carnegie Hall, and worldwide.
In 2003-04, the Lar Lubovitch Dance Company celebrated its...
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| x Leigh Warren & Dancers |
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Adelaide | Leigh Warren |
Leigh Warren & Dancers is a contemporary dance company based in the South Australian capital of Adelaide. Formed in 1993 by Leigh Warren (formerly of the Australian Dance Theatre), the company has toured internationally and won several awards.
A...
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| x Live Action Set | Minneapolis | 2003 |
Live Action Set is an experimental theatre/dance performance company based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The company focuses on ensemble creation of new work and draws from the worlds of dance, drama, music, mime, clowning and visual theatre. Founded...
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| x Malibu Ballet | |||||
| x The Mendocino Ballet |
The Mendocino Ballet is the official dance company for Mendocino County, California, USA. It consists of two main parts, the Mendocino Ballet Company formed in 1984 and the Mendocino Ballet School, formed in 2001 as a classical ballet school.
The...
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| x Merce Cunningham Dance Company | New York City | Merce Cunningham | 1953 | ||
| x Minnesota Dance Theatre |
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The Minnesota Dance Theatre (MDT) dance company and school in Minneapolis, Minnesota was founded by Loyce Houlton in 1962 as the Contemporary Dance Theatre. Lise Houlton succeeded her mother as artistic director in 1995. Each holiday season MDT...
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| x Moldova National Opera Ballet |
The National Ballet of Moldova is housed, together with the National Opera, in a theatre building on the Boulevard Stefan the Great, main road in Chişinău (pronounced Kishinau), the capital of Moldova. Built during the years of the Soviet Union, the...
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| x Mirramu Dance Company |
Mirramu Dance Company is an Australian contemporary dance company founded in early 2002 by Australian dance pioneer Elizabeth Cameron Dalman (the founder of Australian Dance Theatre) and Dancer/Choreographer Vivienne Rogis.
The company is based at...
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| x Nederlands Dans Theatre |
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Nederlands Dans Theater (NDT; literal translation, Netherlands Dance Theatre) is a Dutch contemporary dance company. NDT is headquartered at the Lucent Danstheater in The Hague. In addition to the Lucent Danstheater, NDT performs at other venues in...
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| x Northern Ballet Theatre |
Northern Ballet Theatre is a dance company based in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, with a strong repertoire in theatrical dance productions where the emphasis is on story telling as well as classical ballet. It tours widely across the United...
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| x Parsons Dance Company |
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New York City |
Parsons Dance is a contemporary dance company founded by choreographer David Parsons. The company tours nationally and internationally, and includes an annual season in New York, where they are based.
The company consists of ten full-time dancers....
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| x Patti Rutland Jazz |
Patti Rutland Jazz is a contemporary dance company founded by choreographer Patti Rutland.
Patti Rutland Jazz produces two full length contemporary jazz and hip-hop theatrical dance productions each year in their home city of Dothan, AL. These...
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| x Les Percussions de Guinee |
Les Percussions de Guinee was founded in 1987 by the Ministry of Information, Culture, and Tourism of the Republic of Guinea. It is a government sponsored national ballet of the finest percussionists, musicians, and dancers from Guinea, West Africa....
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| x Pick Up Performance Company |
The Pick Up Performance Company is a not-for-profit theatrical producing organization founded in 1971 and incorporated in 1978. Its mission is to support the artistic work of choreographer-director-writer David Gordon and playwright Ain Gordon. The...
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| x Pilobolus |
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Washington | Lee Harris |
Pilobolus is an internationally-renowned dance company, whose origins are traced to a 1971 Dartmouth College dance class taught by Alison Chase; the founding members were Robby Barnett, Lee Harris, Moses Pendleton, Nicholas Bochte and Jonathan...
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| x Ballet Rambert |
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London | Marie Rambert |
The Rambert Dance Company, is a leading British contemporary dance company.
Dame Marie Rambert (1888-1982), founder of Rambert Dance Company, was born in Warsaw, where she was inspired to become a dancer after seeing Isadora Duncan perform. She went...
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| x Restless Dance Company |
Restless Dance Theatre is a contemporary dance company based in the South Australian capital of Adelaide. Founded in 1991, it comprises young performers with and without a disability. It conducts workshops and tours throughout Australia. Restless...
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| x Ridgefield Conservatory of Dance |
The Ridgefield Conservatory of Dance is a school of dance located in Ridgefield, Connecticut, primarily providing programs in ballet, modern, jazz, tap, and hip hop.
It is home to two pre-professional performance companies:
Also, a professional...
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| x Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company |
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Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company is an American contemporary dance company based in Salt Lake City, Utah. Founded in 1964 by University of Utah dance instructors Joan Woodbury and Shirley Ririe the company is dedicated to furthering contemporary dance...
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| x The Rockettes |
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The Rockettes are a well-known precision dance company performing out of the Radio City Music Hall in Manhattan, New York City. During the Christmas season, the Rockettes have performed five shows a day, seven days a week, for 75 years. Perhaps...
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| x Showtime Steppers |
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The Showtime Steppers is a nationally recognized step team, and the first professional step team of its kind. The group, which originated from a Fort Worth, Texas high school, is currently led by Shane "Shane-O" Wilson and Jenerian "El Hadjo" Young....
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| x Snappy Dance Theater |
Snappy Dance Theater (1996 - ) is a non-profit Postmodern dance company located in Cambridge, Massachusetts founded by current artistic director Martha Mason, Marjorie Morgan and George Whiteside.
The company is currently composed of Mason, Carey...
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| x Swingtime Dance Troupe | Stanford University | Darick Tong | 2002 |
Swingtime is a student-run swing performance troupe based at Stanford University in California. It was founded the fall of 2002 by four students - Megan Kale, Darick Tong, Maria Reese, and Andy Huang - in the wake of the dissolution of the Vintage...
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