And for another, although they are Americans, the Mounts currently live in London, where Mr. Mounts works for Goldman Sachs.
"In order to mount work of this magnitude in this century it takes multiple partners," Mr. Melillo said.
Plenty, including rising young companies such as Rash Dash, have been able to mount work that wouldn't otherwise have been possible.
Ms. Goldberg has cannily managed to extend her festival's reach by convincing other New York institutions to mount work in conjunction with Performa.
The theater's artistic director, Lynne Meadow, said in a recent interview that Ms. Greenfield would take the lead in selecting, developing and mounting work for the club's Off Broadway stage at City Center.
Unfortunately, while "House Arrest" is a handsomely mounted work (Jo Bonney is credited as the "directorial consultant") that offers copious evidence of its creator's exceptional talents, Ms. Smith makes good on that promise only fitfully.
In 1991 he left the Dutch National Ballet to concentrate on writing and mounting works for other companies.
He was in demand internationally, mounting works for Ballet Rambert, the Royal Ballet (a creation starring Nureyev) and the Paris Opera Ballet among others.
Graham Lustig, the artistic director appointed in mid-1999, has mounted works that won critical acclaim but left some former subscribers cold, she said.
She has also helped artists mount works for Times Square, the Brooklyn Bridge, Coney Island, the skies over Manhattan and the streets of New Orleans, where she was behind a post-Katrina staging of "Waiting for Godot".
