Dunn's job was to encourage the creation of dances following the far-out methods Cage had adopted for his music-making.
A longtime performer with Murray Louis and Meredith Monk, Ms. Brenner has had a wide-ranging career and approaches the creation of dances with a blessed seriousness but too little emotional engagement.
Mr. Martins and Mrs. Diamond, whose foundation also supports City Ballet's Diamond Project for the presentation of new choreography, said they had two goals in mind: to furnish choreographers with time, space and dancers, and to support the creation of dances in the classical ballet idiom.
8 p.m., Peter Norton Symphony Space, 2537 Broadway, at 95th Street, (212 864-5400; $32. ( La Rocco) NEW YORK BAROQUE DANCE COMPANY (Tonight and Sunday) New York's premiere company devoted to the re-creation of dance from the 18th century and before presents a program saluting Marie Sallé, who died 250 years ago and helped French dance evolve from the court to the theater.
A free exhibition of photographs by Diane Smook, a chronicle of the creation of a dance by Isabel Gotzkowsky, is also on view.
The award, which was established in 1981 by the arts patron Samuel H. Scripps and the ADF, honors choreographers who have dedicated their lives and talent to the creation of modern dance.
All the best dancehall songs are deeply lustful, and the genre routinely inspires the creation of new dance moves with evocative names: Wine and Dip, Tek Weh Yuhself, Whine Up, Boosie Bounce, Drive By, Shovel It, To Di World, Nuh Behavior, Skip to My Lou, Gully Creepa, Bad Man Forward Bad Man Pull Up, Pon Di River, Willie Bounce, Screetchie, and Daggering, to name but a handful.
In 2006, MTV France documented the creation of a dance crew for an original series called MTV Dance Crew.
Though the dance is established in entertainment, including mild representation in theater, it maintains a strong presence in urban neighborhoods which has led to the creation of street dance derivatives Memphis jookin, turfing, jerkin', and krumping.
