"It opens the door to using and expanding dance in a way that I simply did not have the space to attempt".
Yoga Groove: Misty Tripoli, an aerobics, dance, and yoga instructor, teaches a combination of vinyasa-style yoga and "heart expanding" dance movements set to live tribal drumming.
Electric Daisy founder Pasquale Rotella says he's received offers as high as $120 million to sell his Insomniac promotion company and is exploring a longer-term partnership with rock concert promoter Live Nation, which could expand dance music into stadiums and amphitheatres in most major North American markets.
Next year Ms. Thompson hopes to expand dance to three weeks and to offer open daytime rehearsals that can be watched by passers-by and those grabbing a lunchtime sandwich outdoors.
He has just returned from a trip to the Arizona desert, where he was working on an expanding 30-minute dance called "Opus Cactus".
For the Ailey company, Ms. de Lavallade has expanded the dance to express both a man's and a woman's point of view about the breakup of a relationship, with emphasis on the emotions of the choreography rather than its steps.
Operating since 2006 from the Siobhan Davies Studios, in south London, its activities have expanded beyond dance classes to include seminars, summer schools and workshops.
Others, such as a dust-up in a drugs lab, expand like dance numbers.
In addition to set movement warm ups, students will also learn footwork from different traditions, including tap and current social dance styles to expand their dance vocabulary.
One of the breakthroughs of 20th-century choreography was its revelatory discovery of concert music, so that ballets to concertos, symphonies and other works never intended for dance were expanded onstage in dance terms.
