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Choreographers have participated, sometimes peripherally and often anonymously, in the production of opera since its beginnings in 16th-century Italy.

He also encouraged talented emerging choreographers.

JOFFREY BALLET OF CHICAGO: This esteemed company will cook up a program comprising works by choreographer Gerald Arpino, including the world premiere of Footnotes for RJ, a tribute to the late ballet giant Robert Joffrey, who succumbed to AIDS complications in 1988.

Directed by Marlies Yearby, choreographer of Broadway's hit musical Rent, this exuberant modern dance company presents a diverse repertory of powerful, raw and poignant works.

Levy, her associate Joe Fritz, and choreographer Christopher Wheeldon, who created the 10-minute showstopper, huddle in the dark theater to resolve spacing issues and track sightlines.

He drew inspiration from African-American choreographer Alvin Ailey and artist Romare Bearden, a leading force in the Harlem Renaissance.

DANA CASPERSEN, Dancer and Choreographer, The Forsythe Company

Morris was the most controversial choreographer of the 1980s.

You learn what kind of movement you like best, and how each choreographer creates work and pulls work out of you.

Early in his career, Arpino made his reputation as a choreographer with two such works - the 1968 anti-nuclear work ``The Clowns,'' and his rock ballet ``Trinity'' in 1970, inspired by Vietnam-era peace marches in People's Park in Berkeley.

The German choreographer extracts the turbulence below the surface in the shocking opening episode, where one of Schubert's most lyrical effusions creeps in on a brutal assault inflicted by one man on another.

Baryshnikov worked with modern choreographer Mark Morris in the fall of 1989, and the following fall White Oak Dance Project had its debut performance in Boston in an evening of works by Morris.

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.