Instead, this was a Minneapolis-based dance group directed by a quirkily imaginative choreographer.

What an imaginative choreographer he must have been!

From Korea, a wildly imaginative choreographer of theater and dance pieces with startling costume and set effects.

There must be something in the air or water in the Northwest, given the number of imaginative choreographers and dance troupes the area has produced.

"Les Noces" revealed Mr. Lemon to be an imaginative and steadily developing choreographer.

Mr. Greenberg has often been a quirkily imaginative choreographer, and these dances certainly had their own moments of wit and invention.

Ms. McLean is an intelligent, imaginative choreographer with long experience in dance.

More important, imaginative choreographers might have artistic, dramatic or philosophical convictions that would justify a happy ending.

Shannon Hummel is an impressively savvy and imaginative young choreographer.

Yet imaginative choreographers make them compelling.