Exit Dance Theatre, a modern dance company based in Newburyport, Massachusetts, was founded in 1987 by Susan Atwood, Fontaine Dollas, Cheryl Fisher, Stephen Haley and Linda Lazzaro. Exit's style is deeply rooted in theater techniques, improvisation and collaboration. Founding members wanted the movement to open up beyond traditional styles in order to explore the limitless range of possibilities through the body not the head; through imagining not thinking.