7 ARTS is a multi-disciplinary artist collective exploring an expansive collaborative process. Our original works push traditional boundaries of narrative and genre with a fresh approach to performance, filmmaking and exhibition. (Brooklyn, NY)

A modern dance company based in Connecticut and New York

A contemporary dance company of five women based in New York City. Combining robust athleticism with dramatic intent, the choreography portrays a spectrum of power dynamics among women.

A professional modern dance company based in New York City.

The home site for 'airelise', an aerial and experimental dance group directed by Elise Knudson.

The company's goal has always been to work with as many art forms and new and upcoming choreographers. (NYC)

The official site, includes history, current repertory, information about the Ailey School and ticket purchasing.

Creates visual motion constructions dance art technology for collaborators, galleries, museums, theater and industrial / alternative spaces. (New York)

Brings modern dance to communities through residencies, lecture demonstrations, and performances, educating the public about the art form. Located in New York, United States.

Ananda = Sanskrit for bliss, pleasure, joy; the seat of creativity. Dance = How we express Ananda. Ananda + Dance = Anandance

Information provided includes biographies, performance schedule and newsletter. (NYC)

Choreographer Anita Cheng's art and technology modern dance company in New York City develops new media, DVDs, photos, internet streaming video and live performances (NYC)

An ensemble of accomplished dancer/actors who perform the full spectrum of Anna Sokolow's repertory and on whom Ms. Sokolow created new work through 1997. The company produces an annual New York season.

Annabella Gonzalez Dance Theater (AGDT) Modern dance with a latin touch. (NYC)

Arch Dance Co., based in New York City, is a unique mosaic of members with diverse backgrounds in ethnicity and training from around the globe. Since 1999, the company has been known to bring intense energy on stage under the artistic direction and choreography of Jennifer Archibald.

A Bronx-based contemporary modern dance company committed to carving a permanent niche in the Bronx cultural landscape with a repertory of works that explore life on the margins of Latino and gay cultures, and to bring these works to a local, national and international audience.

Provides a vehicle for artists to explore and create dance and performance works.(New York, NY, USA)

Modern dance company rooted in the Jewish tradition. (NYC)

A modern dance company that explores the relationship between movement and fundamental human questions. The group's work is particularly influenced by Laban Movement Analysis and Zen Buddhism.

A contemporary dance company inspired by Balinese theatre. 6 dancers and Balinese guest artists. Founded in 1979. (NYC)

(New York City, NY, USA)

Modern classical technique combined with innovative movement. (NYC)

Bessie Award Winner 1993. Choreographer of over 100 solo and company works (NYC)

Established in year 1998, the company provides choreographers the opportunity to show their work and talent to the New York City community.

Former artists from the Martha Graham Company provide information on schedule, dance festivals, photographs, and reviews. Performs nationally and internationally. (NYC)

An organization of dancers and educators committed to expressing, engaging, and transforming the human spirit through the experience of dance and movement. (Long Island, NY)

New York performers who specialize in contemporary dance works choreographed by Carol Fonda.

As a respected member of the extended New York City dance community, CDDC's nine members compose a uniquely talented contemporary dance ensemble. The Company is highly acclaimed for its artistic excellence and range as well as its extraordinary ability to communicate to audiences about dance and the creative process.

Post-modern dance company. Site includes tour dates and company information. (New York, USA)

Has created a uniquely Asian-American expression by embodying its cultural heritage, infusing Western modern dance with the strength and beauty of Asian aesthetics (NYC)

Has presented works in various venues in New York City including the Evolving Arts Theater at Dance Space, Soundance Studio, the Cunningham Studio, 31/21 Circum-Arts, and the Pace Downtown Theater.

Founded in 1982 by five artists dedicated to developing a regional modern dance company. (Huntington, NY)

Award-winning interdisciplinary performance company that creates innovative, adventurous, visual theatre using the company's signature choreographic style. The company fuses the real, the unreal, and the hyper-real, using documentary material, especially in-person interviews, as the "spark" for making compelling, image-saturated theatre.

New York based modern dance company.

Choreographers Dwight Rhoden and Desmond Richardson, former stars from Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, run this New York based troupe which performs internationally with artists from dance, theater and music.

A Manhattan-based nonprofit modern dance company founded in September 2000.

A contemporary modern dance company founded by choreographer Neil Greenberg. The company aims to provide keys for the viewer into the rich experience of dance, and explore the particular kinds of meaning--sensual, perceptual, ontological--that dance can provide.

Brief description of history, mission, repertory and programs of NY Dance Collective.

A young, highly-praised modern dance company based in New York. Choreographer Gwirtzman previously danced with Garth Fagan and Mark Morris, and is a co-founder of Artichoke Dance Company.

Official website for David Dorfman Dance and Art Sweats, Inc. (NYC, NY)

Dedicated to the collective creation of dance-theater works that are at once spontaneous and skillfully crafted.

Made up of female dancers from the US, Germany, Denmark and Japan. (Brooklyn, NY)

Dedicated to creating dance, with the desire of communicating the possibilities of human excellence while inspiring and revitalizing the human spirit. The company is committed to collaborating with the community as well as other artists including musicians, animators, and photographers to achieve these goals. (New York, NY)

La Donna Dance, Inc. (Donna Uchizono Company) is a contemporary modern dance company founded by Artistic Director Donna Uchizono to create and present works for the public." New York City, NY (USA)

Interested in the creation of possibilities rather than the forming of actualities. They hope to reveal continuity where others have assumed an ending, to expose that wherever there is closure there is the possibility of a new beginning ? and to challenge their own declaration of what is real.

Performs a body of work heralded by critics as "among the most compelling in the contemporary repertory." Honored with seven New York Dance and Performance Awards (Bessies)

Nonverbal, narrative, theatrical work utilizing an original movement vocabulary which owes its heart to classical, ballroom, and flamenco and its physical sensibility to Merce Cunningham and the Judson Church choreographers. (NYC)

Eiko & Koma create a unique and riveting theater of movement out of stillness, shape, light and sound. Much honored on five continents for their exquisitely wrought productions, they continue to explore new contexts and challenges.

Committed to working with composers who push the boundaries of musical forms. (NYC)

A New York-based postmodern dance collective, featuring master classes, national residencies and a year-round performing roster.

Official web site for the Erick Hawkins Dance Company. Schedule of performances and other up to date information on the reborn company.

A collective of modern dancers and choreographers working as one to bring innovative movement to the world. The Esse Aficionado mission is to encourage professional artists to collaborate their technical and aesthetic ideas for the purpose of creating works of thought-provoking art. (NYC)

A Brooklyn-based contemporary dance company established in 1985. It has premiered over 40 highly acclaimed dances.

Creates and performs new dance works. In its twenty-seven year history, the company has produced over forty dance works, a full-length play about dance and dancers (which featured projected computer animation and choreography), video/dance works, a number of original television broadcasts, and many contemporary music and contemporary art collaborations. (NYC)

A diverse performing group seeking to find and share the beauty and intensity of movement. (New York)

A non-profit organization to create and promote choreo-works combining movement and technology. (NYC)

New York-based dance and performance group committed to the creation of a dynamic, theatrical dance vocabulary with emotionally challenging themes.

A modern dance company from New Jersey (USA)

Gabrielle Lansner & Company is a NYC based dance/theater company. The works, inspired by literary sources, are physical, visual and non-linear collages of words and movement. The Company creates emotionally intimate and resonant work, inviting an audience to connect to and deepen their own emotional life.

Maintains an active schedule that includes the creation of new work, an annual New York season, and touring engagements throughout the U.S. and abroad.

A non-traditional dance company committed to expanding the boundaries of dance and changing the world's perception of what a dancer is. The company performs works that include a variety of disciplines not traditionally associated with concert dance performances such as on-stage singers, actors, and theatrical techniques including gesture and story. (NYC)

Jamie Bishton;Dance a nonprofit modern dance company, based in New York City.

Founded in 1998, jill sigman/thinkdance uses body as a medium to make people think, question, and interpret. (NYC)

Creates strong energetic, expressive, extremely physical dance

Formed under the principles of open communication, collaboration, and the idea that the company exists as a community in which each individual has a voice, as well as a responsibility for its success (NYC)

Presents live performances of contemporary dance and engages in a broad range of residency activities in the US and abroad. The company aims to challenge and engage audiences in rich, innovative aesthetic and intellectual experiences, thereby expanding the form. (NYC)

Based in New York City. K D N Y showcases the athletic and buoyant choreography of Kathleen Dyer, which ranges from the comic to the mysterious.

A pickup company available for performances, residencies, lecture-demonstrations, and workshops (NYC, NY, USA)

Dance company whose choreography is a fusion of modern American and Asian traditions (Tai chi, Martial art, Chinese dance, theater, music and painting) mixed with popular culture and postmodern dance

Reviews, photos, video, bio/history, performance calendar. Also includes information about the music and other artistic projects of New York City-based Lacy James and Mereminne Productions.

Mandalas are dances which place emphasis on the mandala as a medium for meditation while still maintaining a formal choreographic structure. Synthesizing contemporary dance and meditation, Mandalas occupy a place between prayer and performance. (NYC)

Emerging modern dance company located in New York City.

Presents an average of 90 shows each year in 35 cities worldwide and has the distinction of being the only modern dance company in the country to feature live music at every performance.

A community dedicated to the continuing affirmation of Martha Graham's life and legacy.

Exists to further the growth of modern dance in society and act as a catalyst for learning, growth, and physical development (NYC)

Work often explores issues surrounding an identity specifically regarding racial ties and gender roles, incorporating text with an athletic movement style drawing on gymnastics, stage combat, Peking Opera, martial arts, contact improvisation, and various traditional and contemporary dance / theater forms. (New York)

Bethune Street. Studio. Company, classes, schedules. (New York)

Dedicated to performing the works of Michael Mao, an immigrant choreographer who makes dances in the American modern dance tradition with dancers who are either native-born or have resettled in the United States from Africa, Asia, the Americas and Europe. (NYC)

One of the first companies to combine film with dance and to use spoken words and theatrical devices (NYC)

Aims to blend human architecture and improbable partnering with a physically tense quick-action movement style informed by traditional Balinese dance. (New York)

Movin' Spirits Dance Theater's primary focus is to expand the boundaries of dance-theater to include interdisciplinary performance, theater and film. The company's work in relationship with writers, composers and visual artists is strongly interdisciplinary. Movin' Spirits is committed to building new audiences. (NYC)

New works that celebrate the diversity of ideas on the immigrant's journey and inspire the audience to examine the common ground between tradition and innovation, freedom and discipline as well as spirit and form. (NYC)

New York City

Confronts issues of race, gender, and cultural dominance with dancing that is well-crafted and fully realized. (NYC)

A dance theatre company made up of choreographers and artists invested in collaboration and the energy and challenge which such community fosters. Three major elements constitute Notes in Motion programming: workshop, production, and education/outreach.

Creates high-octane avant-garde dance theater that reaches people in a visual and visceral way. The company approaches performance in a richly textured interdisciplinary deconstructionist manner which includes text, music, voice and installation art.

Orquidea Dance is committed to creating and performing works with a strong stylistic impact, while remaining devoted to the strength and beauty of pure movement. (New York)

dance theatre company under artistic leadership of Pavel (Palo) Zustiak, based in New York City

The Parsons Dance Company is comprised of ten full-time dancers and maintains a repertory of over 50 works. See when the company is coming to a theatre near you. (New York)

Paul Taylor, his work, and his company.

A New York City based modern dance company combining mime, clowning, movement, and spectacle to create dance theater. Founded by Rachel Cohen.

New Jersey based Modern Dance company under the direction of Artistic Director Randy James. Named one of the "Best Performances of 2000" by Newark's Star Free Ledger.

Risa Jaroslow & Dancers was founded in 1985 to create works that reflect and speak to people's lives, use dance-making to forge connections between people, and include people of different ages, backgrounds, and skills in the dance-making process. (NYC)

Rotate Dance is a dance theater collective of innovative choreographic works. Located in New York City.

A company of freelance dance professionals from both modern and ballet traditions, dedicated to sharing the power of human movement and, through a collaborative process, exploring the relevance of dance in modern society. (NYC)

Sarah Skaggs Dance merges formal concert dance with "club" or social dance, drawing on a range of traditional and contemporary influences in movement, music and visual media to create an exciting new, audience-inclusive format for dance. (NYC)

Based in Brooklyn, NY this vibrant young company brings a freewheeling kinetic abandon to classic modern dance. Appearing extensively in NYC, SBD also travels internationally, offering community-based dance education and master classes.

A modern dance company whose mission is to create and perform collaborative works using dance, music, spoken word and multimedia as contemporary African American folklore. (New York City, USA)

Exciting modern dance troupe using everyday objects in non-traditional ways. Movement and rhythms of bodies, objects, sounds - even abstract ideas.

STREB--Dance, Danger, Action!

Information about performances, touring, training and company membership in this NYC-based cross-over company presenting highly theatrical dance.

Conceived in 2001 by Rebecca Lazier, dedicated to creating theatrical and site-specific dance while developing diverse audiences through collaborations and educational programs (New York City, USA)

A contemporary dance company which offers strikingly innovative rhythm-based dance theater. Using dance rhythm as a new dramaturgy, he draws his movement language from tap dance, vaudeville, silent film comedy and modern dance

A timeless, classical company dedicated to the continuance of pioneer Lester Horton's style of dance. Sleek and skillful, the dancers emulate the beauty of all out dancing while embracing the human spirit with purity of motion. (NYC)

Founded in 1996 by Geoffrey Doig-Marx (NYC)

Mills' dancers partner in three-dimensional explosions, syncopating space. The Tiffany Mills Company strikes a nerve, triggered by instinct, driven out of raw physicality. (NYC)

Ballet and Modern works available for purchase. Full information on casting, techniques, costuming, and props. Free lighting plot information (PDF format) available for downloading or on-screen viewing. (New York, NY)

Jody Sperling/Time Lapse Dance was formed for the projects of Jody Sperling, a dancer, choreographer, and dance scholar based in New York City. Her choreographic style combines a fluid, sensual physicality with an acute sense of humor. With transformation as its goal, the work draws on eclectic imagery, often from vintage sources.

A New York City based modern dance company dedicated to presenting dance as total theatrical experience, and welcoming and encouraging artistic contributions from those with whom we work.

A dance-theater company committed to creating work that encourages people to experience their feelings and their connection to the greater community. Treehouse Shakers achieves this by creating humanistic stories, experimenting with narrative styles and exploring the story's elements through the abstractions of modern dance. (NYC)

For over 30 years the Trisha Brown Dance Company has been dedicated to the creation and presentation of work by its renowned artistic director, Trisha Brown. The Company continues to produce work ranging from solos to large-scale choreography, and chamber and grand operas.

New York City based company combines dance, theater, and interactive digital media in their eclectic live performances.

Urban Folk Dance Ensemble is a modern dance company located in New York City. Also conducts dance programs for the next generation.

Our work fosters a general appreciation of French, Japanese and European Culture through performances and workshops. We want to bring surreal and beautiful dream-like imagery to the public through our dance performances in order to awaken that which is still dormant within. (NYC)

New York City

Presents works that are a unique synthesis of Eastern and Western aesthetics, delicate rituals which recall an atmosphere of ancient places.

A ten-member dance company founded in 1989, performs works that mix modern, folk and traditional elements with lush, full-bodied movement. (NYC)