# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/steve-paxton
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:53:28.330Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/steve-paxton"
name: "Steve Paxton"
slug: "steve-paxton"
description: "Steven Douglas Paxton was an American experimental dancer and choreographer. His early background was in gymnastics while his later training included three years with Merce Cunningham and a year with José Limón. As a founding member of the Judson Dance Theater, he performed works by Yvonne Rainer and Trisha Brown. He was a founding member of the experimental group Grand Union and in 1972 named and began to develop the dance form known as Contact Improvisation, a form of dance that utilizes the physical laws of friction, momentum, gravity, and inertia to explore the relationship between dancers."
tagline: "American experimental dancer and choreographer (1939–2024)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Steve_Paxton_2012.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1939-01-21"
deathDate: "2024-02-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump