The choreographer and creative director Ian Spink, who has died of lung cancer aged 76, stretched the possibilities of what dance and performance could be. He established his name with Second Stride, the dance company he co-founded in 1982 with the choreographers Richard Alston and Siobhan Davies.
It was the first British contemporary dance company to tour the US and, especially under Spink’s sole directorship from 1988 onwards, gained a reputation for adventurous multimedia performances that were unconstrained by genre boundaries yet remained respectful of craft and medium.
