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The feminine mystique: all-female troupes continue a modern dance tradition.

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In San Francisco choreographer Jo Kreiter's Whose Seeds These Are, a supple dancer crouches, arranging seeds with obsessive care, while a farmer reports in voiceover that his fields have been contaminated by bioengineered seed.

On a stage in New York, Ellis Wood's women hurtle, flail, and wrap together with a lyrical, fractured physicality that is both fragile and strong.

In a different part of the city, Gina Gibney and her six dancers ask residents of a women's shelter to counter years of abuse from male partners by moving their bodies in defiantly bold ways.

In Minneapolis, Ananya Chatterjea stages Bandh: A Meditation on Dream. In the piece, 25 women of color perform movement that blends Odissi Indian dance and modern forms into a vision of hope in a world where violence is escalating and religious fundamentalism is on the rise.

Each of these choreographers direct all-female companies that, in a sense, function like women's colleges to give women opportunities in a field where men and women still get very different...

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