Indeed, born and brought up in Toulouse, she is widely recognized as one of France's most innovative choreographers.

Admired as a bravura performer and an innovative choreographer, he had a varied career that was broadly international in scope.

Jakobson has long been considered by the international dance intelligentsia as the most innovative and courageous Soviet choreographer of his generation.

And since his death in 1950, he has been enshrined as the greatest dancer and one of the most innovative choreographers of the 20th century.

Fosse was an innovative choreographer and had multiple achievements in his life.

Montreal is Canada's dance capital and home to several dozen innovative choreographers.

But he attracted special attention as an innovative choreographer who presented works at the Judson Church in the 1960's.

As with any innovative choreographer, his own movements, spidery and intense, are almost always more riveting than any imitator's.

From 1924 to 1939 he was a member of the Bolshoi, sympathetic to the efforts of innovative Soviet choreographers of the 1920s and 30s.

Horton, an innovative modern-dance choreographer with a distinctive movement style, died in 1953.