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What were these divas like?" recalls the choreographer. "Are they going to stand in one spot and just sing?"

AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE: These dancers will heat up an encore of gay choreographer Robert Hill's Baroque Game with a cast of incredible male pyrotechnicians, and choreographer Christian Holder will premiere his newest work, Weren't We Fools?

In the first rehearsal of Tan Dun's production of The First Emperor, which has its world premiere this season, Levy takes notes as choreographer Dou Dou Huang leads 50 dancers through a blend of martial arts and contemporary dance.

ALONZO KING, Artistic Director and Choreographer, LINES Ballet

Earlier that day, in a studio across town at Jefferson High School, choreographer Josie Moseley explains to nine participants, "It's not a gesture of the hand.

The Belgian choreographer thrusts her eight black-clad dancers into a measured movement maelstrom, introducing and then developing thematic elements.

Then chillingly he suggested, "You know, a lot of young dancers don't know the name Jerome Robbins." Not know the name Jerome Robbins, the greatest-ever American-born classical choreographer? It seemed unthinkable.

The mysterious woman by the water's edge is its choreographer, Yoshiko Chuma.

All members of the Young Dance Collective, they had been invited by postmodern choreographer Noemie Lafrance to perform their signature work, Be There For Me, within her site-specific performance piece Agora.

Aubrey, who is also a choreographer and instructor, points to knees that may get their knocks in jazz dance as well as ballet; ankles for hoofers; lower back, shoulders, and feet for flamencos; and for breakers, shoulder, neck, arm, and hand injuries.

It was a choreographer's cooperative where we would all dance in each other's pieces."

"I don't think of myself as religious," says Bay Area choreographer Nina Haft, "but I feel some sense of longing to connect with my Jewishness." Likewise Maryland-based choreographer Liz Lerman says she has "an ongoing internal struggle with any idea of God," but has made several pieces with Jewish themes.