You could definitely say that Penny Saunders and Pablo Piantino have had a front row seat for the making of some of the most important choreography of the last decade, except that if you did, it would actually be a pretty serious understatement.

Pascal Rioult is a choreographer, but he constructs his works from materials that very few others know how to find.

Opera is currently reviving and reinventing itself for modern audiences, and one organization in particular has had a fair amount of success in creating new operatic works.

Cayetano Soto is one of the leading young choreographers of contemporary dance. His work is in demand all over the world and he has more big commissions coming up soon.

I've gone to The Dance Cartel's OnTheFloor four times and still have no idea what to call it. That's not a complaint, mind you. Part dance, part video installation, part DJ set and part concert, describing the evening as a "performance" or a "show" doesn't do it justice.

Michelle Dorrance goes to a lot of places, and every time she does, she brings something.

Even if almost everyone thinks they already know the story of Helen Keller and Ann Sullivan, this story will always be an astonishing inspiration. Still, how on Earth would you tell it in dance?

The more dramatic the movement, the harder it is to stay balanced; the higher the leap, the more difficult it is to land it gracefully. Those may sound like universal principles of motion, but you'd never know it from watching Ashley Wheater move.

As a dancer, her range of interest, experience and expertise is itself a defiance of boundaries; her biography lists "contemporary, ballet, jazz, modern, hip hop, breakdance, ballroom, tap, and fusions of various styles," somehow leaving out her performances as an aerial artist.

With an infectious joy in her smile and a quirky openness in her dancer's step, Celia Rowlson-Hall radiates a fresh and distinctly female voice in film, with a touch of throwback faithfulness to the classic Hollywood greats.

It's not easy to bring the multitude of choices in movement, costume, lighting and set into harmony with equally complex choices in melody, texture and tone, but when it's done really well, it's a very different kind of art.

Lizzie MacKenzie has been a lot of different places as a dancer, both literally and artistically. That would be enough experience to give anybody an unusually complete perspective on a dance company, but there's one more significant part to Lizzie MacKenzie's bio.

It's a whirlwind of a dance company; when Janine Parker saw them perform, she wrote in the Boston Globe that they "dance as if it's the last night on Earth," but it wasn't always this way when Gustavo Ramírez Sansano made dances.

Coldplay have left the stadium but the buzz surrounding the Paralympic Games looks set to continue. Some feedback credits London 2012 for bridging the...

Naked is not a decision you should make lightly as a dancemaker, or, in my opinion, frequently. Dancing in the buff has serious implications that you can't avoid.

We have seen the future of dance, and it is fun! For two nights in June, Klaus' company, Ballets with a Twist, took viewers for a spin with its 21st-century take on an American tradition -- blasting the boundaries between high art and entertainment.

The New York-based dance company Pilobolus released a behind-the-scenes trailer of it's new work, Automaton. It's a collaborative piece choreographed ...