It's a real medieval dance of death; some of Jooss's movements, mixing ballet and modern techniques, look as if they leapt straight from woodcuts.

Toward that end, GTV mixes visual techniques from documentaries, music videos and television commercials.

"He mixes modern, telegenic techniques with old-fashioned Hoosier campaigning," he said.

From the 1940s on, artists started to mix Western techniques with Southeast Asian imagery and content.

It came into currency in the 1970's, when artists began promiscuously mixing techniques like drawing, collage, painting, print-making and photography.

The result was to mix original techniques with the newest digital techniques to make it difficult for the viewer to guess which technique was being used.

There are several schools of chiropractic adjustive techniques, although most chiropractors mix techniques from several schools.

The basic musical structure is similar to Baltimore's, but it differs in the use of the same exact beats and mixing techniques.

"They didn't want to mix techniques," Mr Loukos said.

Studies of this brand of therapy are important for the thousands of therapists around the world who mix and match analytic techniques with other therapies.