"My original idea was to fly the dancers across the stage," she said.
Emma Hogarth likes to send dancers across the Williamsburg Bridge in symbolic journeys that allude to the history of the site.
"Pilgrimage," the opening section of Mr. Lin's "Land of Lost Content," moved a wedge of six dancers across the stage slowly to music by Philip Glass.
KEN SWIFT, Jazzy J, Pop Master Fabel: names once familiar only to hip-hop fanciers are on the lips of young dancers across New York City.
Within his structure, which shifts dancers across or on and off the stage in packs, Mr. Morris creates optical illusions, fooling the eyes into imagining that there are double, even triple the number of performers.
Musicians and dancers across the entire region became familiar with both musical languages, and the large bands of the swing era expanded their repertory to include rumbas and congas, two types of Afro-Cuban dance music.
Like Mr. Ruiz, Mr. Whitener knows how to move his dancers across the stage and up into midair with easy, inventive grace, the dancers assembling and splitting into cheeky smaller ensembles.
Ms. Brown hopes to expand the dancers' contracts, which currently run a maximum of 21 weeks, less than half what the modern dance troupe ODC/San Francisco offers its dancers across the bay.
Eva Silverstein, who directs this modern-dance company with Guillermo E. Brown, a composer, will spread out with her dancers across the docks, pebble beach, granite boulders and grass of a reclaimed waterfront area in "Oasis," a free site-specific piece.
