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Thirdstream dance is more easily defined than traced.
Thirdstream dance is not just a crossover mix of the two predominant theater dance genres of the past century.
But not too many of these works, Tharp's apart, were genuine thirdstream ballets.
But I still stubbornly think thirdstream dance found its beginnings in The Hague, that staid capital of the Netherlands.
Its sweep and power, its use of classical technique underlayered with a modern dance spirit, made it a controversial template for thirdstream dance.
Gilbert might have put it, "the very model of a modern major dancer." Born in Potomac, Maryland, he is the epitome of what we are beginning to think of as a
thirdstream dancer.
Nowadays, like Caesar's Gaul, American theater dance is divided into three parts: classical, modern, and all those
thirdstream currents in between.