Steve Paxton is an experimental dancer and choreographer. His early background was in gymnastics, his later training included three years with Merce Cunningham and a year with José Limón. He was a founder member of the Judson Dance Theater, he performed works by Yvonne Rainer and Trisha Brown. He was a founding member of the experimental Grand Union, and in 1972 named and began to develop the dance form known as Contact improvisation, … Wikipedia
The definitive Wikipedia entry for Steve Paxton. Wikipedia is the biggest multilingual free-content encyclopedia on the Internet. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Paxton