NEW YORK — For more than 50 years, some spark of divine fire has kept touching dancer-choreographer Steve Paxton. In the 1960s, he performed with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company and Judson ...

Steve Paxton, Who Found Avant-Garde Dance in the Everyday, Dies at 85. With Judson Dance Theater and as the founder of contact improvisation, he expanded the possibilities of what dance could be ...

Steve Paxton, who helped radically upend ideas about dance as a member of the 1960s collective Judson Dance Theater in New York City, and who developed contact improvisation, a movement form that ...

Experimental dancer and choreographer. Founding member of the Judson Dance Theater and the improvisational dance group Grand Union. Developed the dance ...

Steve Paxton Performances by this influential sixties radical and father of contact improvisation are exceedingly rare. His septuagenarian body has grown craggy, but the mind that directs it ...