Jennifer Dunning, writing in The New York Times last year, called Mr. Richardson "one of the most charismatic modern dancers of our time."

The performance also revealed that "Chiaroscuro" is not just a showcase for a charismatic dancer, but also a sturdily constructed piece of choreography.

Stone-bald and built like a football player, he is also a naturally charismatic dancer, despite his almost total lack of formal training.

Daniel (Tom Long), a charismatic dancer, is drugged and abducted in an alley by three hooded women.

The "Melancholic" variation was danced clearly in a boyish performance by Cubie Burke, one of the company's most interesting and charismatic dancers.

Tonight's free outdoor "Inside/ Out" program features New York's own Young Dancemakers Company, a group of charismatic and gifted dancers and choreographers drawn from the city's public schools.

Like her brother, the charismatic dancer Vaslav Nijinsky, Bronislava Nijinska was an innovative choreographer.

Hijikata Tatsumi was a charismatic dancer who experimented with different kinds of creative dance to capture expressive motions he considered expressly suited to the Japanese physiognomy and psyche.

Volume 2 sums up the years 1980-83, a period which saw a decline in the group's popularity, and the group's charismatic dancer Bobby Farrell being replaced with singer Reggie Tsiboe in 1982.

In the 1980s, charismatic dancers like Crazy Legs, Frosty Freeze, and the Rock Steady Crew revived the breaking movement.