Every choreographer, company, and work on Ballet Modern tagged 2000s. Browse all tags →
Earthy, gestural ensemble work built through deep collaboration
A Canadian choreographer known for earthy, deeply collaborative ensemble works made with dancers, companies, and even Mikhail Baryshnikov himself.
Building a shared physical language across cultures and forms
A Belgian-Moroccan choreographer who builds work at the meeting point of ballet, martial arts, and global dance traditions.
Kathak's rhythm and storytelling recast as contemporary dance theatre
A British-Bangladeshi choreographer who fuses classical kathak with contemporary dance into some of the most physically demanding storytelling in the field.
Hyperextension, speed, and the choreography of cognition
The Royal Ballet's longtime resident choreographer, known for hyperextended movement developed in collaboration with cognitive scientists.
Musicality, wit, and the recovered grammar of 19th-century ballet
A former Bolshoi Ballet director whose new works and painstaking historical reconstructions have made him one of the most performed choreographers in ballet today.
Primal, propulsive movement set to his own pounding scores
A former Batsheva dancer and composer whose company builds dark, tribal-feeling ensemble works from his own pounding, self-composed scores.
Neoclassical fluency in service of full-length storytelling
A former Royal Ballet and New York City Ballet dancer whose neoclassical fluency has produced acclaimed narrative ballets and Tony-winning Broadway work.
Philadelphia's commission-only home for new choreographic voices
A Philadelphia company built on one strict rule: every work in its repertory is a new commission, never a revival of existing choreography.
Wayne McGregor, 2006 - ten dancers inside a stark white box
Wayne McGregor's 2006 breakthrough for The Royal Ballet, staged in a stark white box designed by architect John Pawson, won the Olivier Award and reshaped what the company's dancers could do.
Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui & Akram Khan, 2005 - two bodies, one border
A duet co-choreographed and danced by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Akram Khan themselves, built around a life-cast figure standing in for a dead body.
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