Ian Spink obituary

Choreographer, creative director and co-founder of Second Stride, a company that transformed contemporary dance in the 1980sThe 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, especi