His best-known dance for the company was "Misalliance," a comic look at the mismating of ballet and modern-dance techniques.

Dance has become more and more homogenized in recent decades with crossover ballet and modern-dance techniques being taught regularly.

Mrs. Houlton favored a rhapsodic choreographic style that combined ballet with various modern-dance techniques.

And the choreography drew upon a variety of balletic, modern-dance and jazz-dance techniques.

Stanley Love has chosen to blend disco dancing and music with traditional modern-dance techniques.

Mr. Gaines wants his students to have fun in the classes, which incorporate aerobics, yoga, step dancing, sign language and traditional modern-dance techniques.

Nevertheless, in spite of their differences, the group gradually began to develop a new vocabulary, a hybrid of gymnastic and modern-dance techniques.

The company, founded in 1975, has been well trained in both classical ballet and modern-dance techniques.

That all-out dancing is tempered, however, by his passionately acquired knowledge of classical ballet and modern-dance techniques, idioms and history.

She had been invited for a month to teach a broad array of modern-dance techniques.