William Forsythe (born December 30 1949 in New York City) is an American dancer and choreographer resident in Dresden in Saxony. He is known internationally for his work with the Frankfurt Ballet and his reorientation of classical ballet. Forsythe trained at the Joffrey Ballet, and the American Ballet Theatre in New York City (taking additional classes with Maggie Black, Finis Jung, Jonathan Watts, Meredith Baylis, William Griffith, Leon Danelion, Mme. Periaslavic, Mme.

Richard Alston is a British choreographer. He has been Resident Choreographer and Artistic Director for the Ballet Rambert and is currently Artistic Director at The Place. He trained at the London School of Contemporary Dance, and then choreographed for the London Contemporary Dance Theatre before forming the UK’s first independent dance company, Strider, in 1972.

Mia specializes in contemporary dance, and won an Emmy for her choreography work on So You Think You Can Dance, Season 3. She was raised in Florida, but moved west to pursue her dreams. She also does choreography for Celine Dion and Cirque de Soleil.

Shen Wei was a founding member of China’s first contemporary dance company, the Guangdong Modern Dance Company, after performing traditional Chinese Opera for five years with the Hunan State Opera. He moved to New York in 1995, and founded his own company-Shen Wei Dance Arts in 2000. He is currently one of the most popular modern dance choreographers in the country.

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, …

Tanja Liedtke (born 1978 Stuttgart, Germany) is an Australian based contemporary dance choreographer. She has been selected to be the artistic director of the Sydney Dance Company, succeeding founding director Graeme Murphy from October 2007. She went to Australia with her family when Bosch posted her father there in 1996. She was educated in England, beginning dance and theatre studies in Madrid including the Elmhurst School for Dance and Ballet Rambert School.

Danny Tidwell (born August 1, 1984 in Norfolk, Virginia) is an American dance choreographer, contemporary dancer, known for being one of the contestants on Fox's third season of "So You Think You Can Dance". He is the adopted brother of Travis Wall, runner-up of the second season of "So You Think You Can Dance". He is often confused with Taimak, known as "Bruce Leroy", from the movie "The Last Dragon".

Sabra Elise Johnson is an American contemporary dancer known for being one of the contestants on the hit reality TV show, "So You Think You Can Dance". == So You Think You Can Dance== She was paired up with hip hop dancer Dominic Sandoval. On the premiere of the show they danced a Doriana Sanchez disco routine to "No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)" by Donna Summer. She and Dominic placed in the bottom three and were required to dance solos for the three judges.

Neil Haskell (born April 16 1987 in Clarence Center, New York) is an American contemporary dancer. In 2005, he was chosen as the American Dance Awards' Dancer of the Year. He is now known for being one of the contestants on the hit reality TV show, "So You Think You Can Dance".

Kameron David Bink is an American contemporary/hip hop dancer known for being one of the contestants on the hit reality TV show, So You Think You Can Dance.

Lauren Gottlieb is an American contemporary/hip hop dancer known for being one of the contestants on the hit reality TV show, "So You Think You Can Dance".

Leigh Warren (born 1952) is an Australian contemporary dance choreographer and is Artistic Director of Leigh Warren & Dancers (LWD) having previously been at the Australian Dance Theatre. He has recently choreographed and directed the "Portrait Trilogy" of operas by Philip Glass ("Akhnaten", Einstein on the Beach and Satyagraha) performed by LWD, the Adelaide Vocal Project and the State Opera of South Australia.

David Gordon is a dancer, choreographer, writer and theatrical director prominent in the world of postmodern dance. David Gordon performed in the companies of James Waring and Yvonne Rainer in the 1960s, when he was a founding artist in the Judson Church dance performances and also showed dances at the Living Theatre. In the 1970s he was a founding member of the improvisational group, The Grand Union.

Martha Clarke (born June 3, 1944) is one of the most important modern choreographers in America. Born into an intensely musical family in suburban Baltimore, she studied at the dance program of the Juilliard School. She then spent three years performing with the modern dance choreographer Anna Sokolow and the Dance Theatre Workshop. She later became a member of Pilobolus Dance Theatre before going on to a highly original career as a choreographer.

Jaimie Goodwin is an American contemporary dancer known for being one of the contestants on the hit reality TV show, "So You Think You Can Dance".

Shauna Noland is an American contemporary dancer known for being one of the contestants on the hit reality TV show, So You Think You Can Dance.

Louise LeCavalier, (1958-), a Canadian dancer, is known as one of the icons of Canadian contemporary dance. Lecavalier was born and raised in Montreal, Canada. She began her professional dance career at the age of eighteen when she joined Le Groupe Nouvelle Aire. It was there that she met Édouard Lock. Lecavalier became Lock's muse in his company La La La Human Steps. With her mane of platinum dreadlocks, her physical power and her mastery of the full-body barrel jump, …

Mauro Bigonzetti (b. 1960) Contemporary Italian dancer and choreographer. Bigonzetti is currently the artistic director of the Aterballetto dance company. Bigonzetti graduated from the School of the Teatro dell'Opera in Rome. He joined Aterballetto in 1982, performing as soloist, and began to develop his early choreographic talent. Since 1985, he has received various awards as a dancer and choreographer. His works have been staged by the Teatro dell'Opera, …

Jenny Holzer (born 1950 in Gallipolis, Ohio) is an American conceptual artist. She attended Ohio University (in Athens, Ohio), Rhode Island School of Design, and the Independent Study Program at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Holzer was originally an abstract artist, focusing on painting and printmaking, but after moving to New York City in 1977, she began working with text as art. The main focus of her work is the use of words and ideas in public space.

Michael Palmer (b.1943 in Manhattan, New York) is a contemporary American poet and translator. He has worked extensively with contemporary Dance for over thirty years and has collaborated with many composers and visual artists. Palmer has lived in San Francisco since 1969. Palmer is the 2006 recipient of the Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets. This $100,000 (US) prize recognizes outstanding and proven mastery in the art of poetry

Kate Champion (born 1961, Sydney, Australia) is a contemporary dance choreographer and the director of Force Majeure, a dance collective exploring strong physical performance. Champion began her dance training with Karen Kerkhoven and also studied in Munich. She has worked DV8 Physical Theatre in the UK and in Australia with One Extra Company, dancenorth and the Australian Dance Theatre. Lloyd Newson of DV8 has been an important influence, …

Carole Laure is a Québécoise actress and singer from the province of Quebec in Canada. She was born on August 5, 1948, in Shawinigan. Throughout most of her career, she primarily collaborated with Anglophone singer, songwriter, producer, and director Lewis Furey, whom she met in 1977 and who later became her husband. She debuted as a singer on the album "Alibis" in 1978. In 1989, she devoted an acoustic-oriented bilingual album, "Western Shadows", …

Ákos Hargitay was born 1964 in Budapest. Since 1990 he danced in the field of contemporary dance with various local Hungarian dance groups such as Gyula Berger Dance Company, Artus, choreographer Katalin Lõrinc and in collaboration with Réka Szabó and Eszter Gál. In Vienna he worked with Cie Willi Dorner, TanzHotel ,Tanz Atelier Wien, Mark Tompkins among others. He worked with Dance Energy /Micha Purucker (D), with David Zambrano (NL) in the Ballroom Project in NYC.

Venerable Ajahn Sundara is a French-born ordained monastic in the Buddhist Thai Forest Tradition of Ajahn Chah. After studying and teaching dance in England and in France, she spent part of her early thirties working as contemporary dancer and teacher. Ajahn Sundara met Ajahn Sumedho in England, 1978 while attending one of his dhamma talks and then a retreat. She was one of the first four women ordained by Ajahn Sumedho, …

Jason Chan (born December 1, 1971) starred on "Power Rangers: Ninja Storm" in 2003 as Cameron Watanabe, the Green Samurai Ranger. He was born in Malaysia and moved to Perth with his family when he was only 5. He entered medical school at the University of Western Australia, but Jason continued to pursue the creative arts, studying ballet, contemporary dance, and jazz dance at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts.

Simona Lisi is an italian dancer and actress. She successfully attend many italian and english acting and dance academies, like the "London Contemporary Dance School". Among her teachers there are many acclaimed dancers like Carolyn Carlson, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and Win Vandekeybus. In the early 1990s Lisi begin her theatrical career as dancer and choreographer, developing her method based on contemporary dance.

Alissar Caracalla is a Lebanese dancer and choreographer. She is the founder and director of the Orientalist Dance Company and the Caracalla School of Dance, which is simply known as "Studio Caracalla: L'art de la Danse." Caracalla is the daughter of Abdul-Halim Caracalla, the founder of the Caracalla Dance Theatre. She received her BA in International Communications and Choreography from Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles.

William Charles Crowley (b. March 14, 1970) is an American dancer and choreographer. Crowley was born and raised in the northwest suburbs of Chicago, Illinois. He was first exposed to the arts through active involvement in both the Art and Theater programs offered at his high school. Upon graduation in 1988, he was accepted to Hope College in Holland, Michigan. There, Crowley began his dance training at the age of 20. Dance soon became his primary focus.

Paul J. Medford (born in West London in 1967) is a British actor and performer of Barbadian descent. He is best known for playing the role of Kelvin Carpenter in the BBC soap opera "EastEnders" from the show's inception in 1985 to 1987. Other television credits include "This Life" (1997), "Casualty" (2003) and "The Professionals" (1983).

Jonathan Le Billon is a British actor, born in West Yorkshire on 20th September 1980. He is primarily known for playing Brian Drake in Mersey Television's Hollyoaks between 2001 and 2003. The character of Brian was one of the more serious characters in the show, recognised as a goth but actually practicing Christian, it was played thoughtfully by Jonathan Le Billon, even when the exit storyline had Brian, rather uncharacteristically, …