Avant Garde: Dancers and Choreographers
- Loie Fuller (pioneer of modern dance)
- Isadora Duncan (pioneer of modern dance)
- Vaslav Nijinsky (pioneer of modern dance)
- Léonide Massine (pioneer of modern dance)
- Ruth St. Denis (pioneer of modern dance)
- Ted Shawn (pioneer of modern dance)
- Doris Humphrey (pioneer of modern dance)
- Charles Weidman (pioneer of modern dance)
- Hanya Holm (pioneer of modern dance)
- Helen Tamiris (pioneer of modern dance)
- Mary Wigman (German dancer, choreographer)
- Martha Graham (American dancer, choreographer)
- Anna Sokolow (American dancer, choreographer)
- Merce Cunningham (American dancer, choreographer)
- Alwin Nikolais (American dancer, choreographer)
- Twyla Tharp (American choreographer, dancer)
- Lucinda Childs (American dancer, choreographer)
- Deborah Hay (American dancer, choreographer)
- Anna Halprin, (American dancer, choreographer)
- Yvonne Rainer (American dancer, choreographer)
- Pina Bausch (German dancer, choreographer)
- Trisha Brown (American dancer, choreographer)
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