Mordine & Company Dance Theater operated as a repertory company for 50 years — earning credit as the Midwest’s longest-running modern dance company. Mordine relocated to California in 2021.

Modern dance in the United States, the land of immigrants, is rooted in precisely this form of physical expression. That’s the thesis of “Border Crossings: Exile and American Modern Dance 1900-1955,”a ...

Woodbury and Shirley Ririe created Utah's first modern dance company in 1964. What they did was groundbreaking. As wives and mothers, they ''job shared'' before anyone knew what that was.

The creation of American modern dance, in the first half of the 20th century, was akin to the development of jazz or the Broadway musical, all potent new forms of expression for a country on the rise.

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“But ultimately, modern dance was too connected to American capitalist bourgeois culture,” Wilcox said. Apart from Chinese forms, only ballet, supported by the Soviet Union, was favored.

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