He was a master of the Broadway musical and one of the greatest ballet choreographers this country has ever produced.

Martha Graham's impact on dance has been compared to that of Picasso's on painting, Stravinsky's on music, and Frank Lloyd Wright's on architecture.

Almost sixty years, Nikolais was modern dance's pioneer of multimedia. Often presenting his dancers in constrictive spaces and costumes with complicated sound and sets.

George Balanchine, the Russian born artistic director and primary choreographer of the New York City Ballet, had created over 400 works and was recognized as a 20th-century master.

The title of Charles Atlas' new documentary on Merce Cunningham may be taken quite literally: his mother described his dancing down the aisle of the church the family attended in Centralia, Washington, at the age of four.