Without her example, someone like Ms Waltz would not be thriving, although Ms Waltz is adamant that she is more influenced by TrishaBrown, an American choreographer, than her compatriot in Wuppertal.
TrishaBrown first made a name for herself in the 1960s when she appeared on the New York dance scene as a performer of quiet charisma and a dance maker of regularly sly rebelliousness.
" Ms. Brown formed her TrishaBrown Dance Company in 1970, the same year she created the straightforward but eerie event for a solo male dancer, matter-of-factly called "Man Walking Down the Side of a Building.