That two classics by modern dance pioneers received an academic treatment came as no surprise.

But - and this is the piece's interest - she does not use the expressionist or symbolic devices of the modern dance pioneers of the past.

Katherine Dunham, who turns 91 on June 22, is an American dance pioneer who has endured through hard times.

Bella Lewitzky, 88, modern dance pioneer and choreographer.

Edna Guy (1907-1982) was an African-American modern dance pioneer.

There was a homage to four American modern dance pioneers by the late Miss Trisler.

I don't mean the ghosts of Shawn and his wife, Ruth St. Denis, the modern dance pioneer.

He must surely agree with the modern dance pioneers who insisted that the center of the body is the source of emotions.

America's dance pioneers had ideas; but because they could not express them in any existing dance languages, they invented their own.

Alvin had been circling around the awesome notion of presenting his own choreography, with black performers, in the hometown of the great modern dance pioneers.