"Boards of culture no longer have to be asked whether foreign choreographers can be invited," he said.

Guangzhou Ballet is also involved in cultural exchanges with foreign ballet choreographers, dancers, and instructors.

And it has welcomed increasing numbers of foreign choreographers to its summer courses and commissioned premieres from them.

The dancers are drawn from the students and other foreign choreographers attending the festival school.

There was talk of inviting foreign choreographers and foreign students.

His purpose, he said, was to present his own pieces and new works by young and foreign choreographers.

What may seem experimental to foreign choreographers turns out to be, on a New York stage, rather passé.

Yet, foreign choreographers inspired by them do not necessarily imitate them.

At the same time, it was surprising to realize how rarely foreign ballet-trained choreographers, unlike their American counterparts, value the classical idiom for its own sake.

The Spain of the foreign choreographers has been either a cartoon or a stereotyped land of blood and sand.