Every choreographer, company, and work on Ballet Modern tagged Collaboration. 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.
Large-scale spectacle with a wink - contemporary dance that laughs at itself
A former NDT and Cullberg dancer whose large-scale, wickedly funny works turn contemporary dance's own conventions - and its critics - into the subject of the piece.
Hyperextension, speed, and the choreography of cognition
The Royal Ballet's longtime resident choreographer, known for hyperextended movement developed in collaboration with cognitive scientists.
Restless, sneaker-clad energy inside a neoclassical frame
A former New York City Ballet corps dancer turned resident choreographer, known for propulsive, contemporary-inflected neoclassicism and crossover work on Broadway and film.
Postmodern rigor and social-dance swagger, folded into classical technique
The postmodern-trained choreographer who proved ballet-trained bodies could dance social dance, boxing, and pedestrian movement without losing their classical footing.
The Vancouver company that reinvented itself - and shaped Crystal Pite
A regional ballet company that shed its classical repertory entirely to become an all-contemporary commissioning ensemble - and once counted Crystal Pite among its dancers.
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.
The New York company that fused ballet with hip-hop, jazz, and modern dance
Founded by two dancers out of Alvin Ailey and American Ballet Theatre, Complexions treats ballet as one ingredient among many - hip-hop, jazz, and modern dance included.
Sweden's opera-house company, built for large-scale immersive dance
Sweden's leading contemporary dance company, built inside an opera house and known for large-scale, immersive works from major international choreographers.
The Hague company that defined a generation of contemporary ballet
Founded by dancers who broke away from Sonia Gaskell's Nederlands Ballet, NDT became one of the defining engines of contemporary ballet worldwide.
Alexander Ekman, 2010 - a satire of contemporary dance and the critics who explain it
Sixteen dancers, square white platforms, potted cacti, a live string quartet, and a voiceover in the overblown language of dance criticism - Ekman's best-known satirical work.
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.
Twyla Tharp, 1986 - stompers and bombers colliding in fog and stripes
Twyla Tharp's most performed work sets sneaker-clad 'stompers' against pointe-shoe 'bombers' in drifting fog, a commissioned Philip Glass score, and Norma Kamali's black-and-white stripes.
Christopher Wheeldon, 2012 - a duet built for one dancer's second act
A duet made for New York City Ballet's Wendy Whelan, set to Max Richter's mashup of his own score with Dinah Washington's voice, that became a defining contemporary pas de deux of its decade.
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.
This site uses cookies for basic operation and, where enabled, to serve advertising through services like Google AdSense. See our Privacy Policy for details.
