Question: What concepts of dance does the Horton technique of dance utilize?

Mamela Nyamza is a dancer, teacher, choreographer, and activist in South Africa.  Nyamza is known for blending styles in a way that challenges traditional standards.  Nyamza has performed nationally and internationally and has choreographed autobiographical, political, and social pieces both on her own and in collaboration with other artists.  She is trained in a variety of styles of dance including ballet, modern dance, African dance, the Horton technique, Spanish dance, jazz, movement and mime, flying low technique, release technique, gumboot dance and Butoh.  She draws inspiration from her daily life and her identity as a young, black woman.  Nyamza's abstract dance style allows her to use dance as a way to share both her own personal stories as well as African stories with the world.  Additionally, she has created various community outreach projects that have helped to spread the positive influence of dance to different communities within South Africa, including the University of Stellenbosch's Project Move 1524, a group that works to educate on issues relating to HIV/AIDS, domestic violence and drug abuse, through dance movement therapy. <SEP> Graham technique is a modern dance movement style and pedagogy created by American dancer and choreographer Martha Graham (1894–1991).  Graham technique has been called the "cornerstone" of American modern dance, and has been taught worldwide.  It is widely regarded as the first codified modern dance technique, and strongly influenced the later techniques of Merce Cunningham, Lester Horton, and Paul Taylor. <SEP>  These dances must be viewed in close connection with Sub-Saharan African music traditions and Bantu cultivation of rhythm. African dance refers mainly to the dance of Sub-Saharan Africa, and more appropriately African dances because of the many cultural differences in musical and movement styles.  African dance utilizes the concept of as well as total body articulation. <SEP> Judson Dance Theater was a collective of dancers, composers, and visual artists who performed at the Judson Memorial Church in Greenwich Village, Manhattan New York City between 1962 and 1964.  It grew out of a composition class taught by Robert Dunn, a musician who had studied with John Cage.  The artists involved were "avant garde" experimentalists who rejected the confines of Modern dance practice and theory, inventing as they did the precepts of Postmodern dance.  Yvonne Rainer's 'No Manifesto' - (to which she rejects any confines to technique, thrill, spectacle, glamour, or assumed space) came out of this movement as a way to state what the Judson Dance Theater wanted; a way to convey the beauty of ordinary movement and the pureness of dance/performance art.  It was a place for collaboration between artists in various fields such as, dancers, writers, filmmakers, composers, etc.  Their goal in this collaboration was to observe dance in its purist form.  This resulted in the elimination of many theatrical elements like plots and storylines, elaborate costumes and scenery, and even formal dance technique.  The group constantly redefined itself by these collaborative efforts.