My first work of choreography, Rien de Rien, was about not believing in regret – only in making choices.
In 1981 Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, a young Belgian student at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, presented her first professional work of choreography at a festival in Westchester County in New York.
In projects like "Falling Up," a work of choreography that Dr. Todd Winkler presented at the Dublin Fringe Festival in September, performers can conjure up elaborate multimedia effects.
As a work of choreography there were other issues.
Established stars performed in unfamiliar partnerships and repertory; one of George Balanchine's very last works of choreography, not seen for 30 years, was revived; young ballet dancers at soloist or corps level received prestigious breakthrough opportunities.
He, George Balanchine, and Sir Frederick Ashton became the leading exponents of classical or abstract dance; but the latter two like Martha Graham, Leonide Massine, Jerome Robbins, and others also produced major representational works of choreography.
Mary Kevlin, a copyright and trademark specialist at the law firm of Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman in New York, said that yoga sequences might receive the kind of copyright protection granted works of choreography.
Meanwhile, the rest of the cast would chat, sample a disarray of cake and candy or work out bits of choreography and music.
October 1 2014 October 5 5 2014 This Croatian-born artist brings two participatory works of "social choreography" to the "Crossing the Line" festival, one for grownups, one for kids.
Although it's likely that Mr. Moreira had something else in mind — maybe some myth to do with a female sea spirit — it was unwise of him to present, especially in New York, a work that had so many features in common with one of the world's best-known works of stage choreography.
