Most modern-dance companies devote themselves to the work of one choreographer.
A survey is about to go out to modern-dance companies throughout the city, asking what they need most.
Working with a modern-dance company fit that bill perfectly.
There is always a question, with a modern-dance company, whether the troupe should continue after the creator's death.
Alicia Sanchez calls her modern-dance company a theater of movement.
"I had seen a modern-dance company from Canada," he said.
It isn't even that it is China's first professional modern-dance company, having been established only in 1990.
She assumed direction of his modern-dance company in 1996, two years after his death.
Even today, relatively few black dancers are found in most major American ballet and modern-dance companies.
At one time, this definition would have fit all modern-dance companies.