In presenting the award, Chita Rivera gave a brief tribute to the late choreographer and director Bob Fosse.

The latest choreographer to retool the wheel is Garry Stewart, the 39-year-old artistic director of the Australian Dance Theater of Adelaide.

EVEN Mozart wrote a ballet score, and last year Peter Martins became the latest choreographer to be attracted by it, creating one of his best works in the process.

He recalled the late choreographer Martha Graham's early performances.

When the curtain rises for the first time this Wednesday on Eliot Feld's "Savage Glance," the choreographer's latest ballet, the audience will watch a haunting and seamless 18-minute dance unfold.

"Ring Around the Rosie," the choreographer's latest New York premiere, is a variation on a medieval dance of death.

The story of a young girl's coming-out ball, "Cotillon" was considered among the late choreographer's most sublime pieces in its evocations of lost innocence and bittersweet romanticism.

Wim Wenders's biopic of the late, hugely influential German choreographer Pina Bausch loses some of its impact in 2D, but remains a rich record of Bausch's work.

A heartfelt 3D tribute by Wim Wenders to Pina Bausch, the late modern ballet choreographer.

Next week, several of the late choreographer's works will get a new look by some artists closer to home, including Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, the Richmond Ballet and Desmond Richardson.