They take a theory of experimental choreography to preposterous extremes.

Primus' dance orientation, then, began with experimental choreography in dances that expressed social protest and explored ethnic material.

Susan Marshall's always experimental choreography provides food for both the eye and the mind, as these two new duets showed again at Serious Fun on Friday night.

Ms. Thompson will also continue her encouragement and presentation of experimental choreography.

THIS YEAR, AS USUAL, IT IS mainly the summer dance festivals outside New York that have revealed significant new talent and experimental choreography from abroad.

She had little sympathy for the experimental abstract choreography of Merce Cunningham, and in "America Dances," a history published in 1981, she called Twyla Tharp's choreography "tiresomely neurotic."

Nancy Meehan's experimental choreography is defined, unusually, more by its sensibility than by an idiom or a doctrinaire formula for composing dances.

It concentrates on challenging, contemporary and experimental choreography.

Mr. Robbins helped to shape the City Ballet's creative profile with daring and brio for half a century through his often startling, always experimental choreography in ballet's classical idiom.

The raw and the tender lie deep in the experimental choreography that Reggie Wilson creates with such freshness in his view of the African diaspora.