Stanley Love, an experimental choreographer who built a loyal following by instilling his dances with joy, vibrant physicality and his wild imagination, was found dead on Aug. 22 at his home in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn. He was 49 .

The medical examiner’s office in Brooklyn said the cause had not yet been determined.

Mr. Love created numerous works for his company, the Stanley Love Performance Group, embracing spectacle and pop music, dance history and social dancing. He was a staple of the downtown dance world in Manhattan, and, tall and lithe, he made an instant impression even off the stage.

Lauri Hogan, one of his longtime dancers, recalled encountering Mr. Love when they were students at the Juilliard School. “He had on these pants that I would see him in many times — green-and-white polka dots — and a white turtleneck, and he had this very severe blunt bob and his purse across his body, which he wore most of the time in various forms. I was fascinated. He opened up looking at the world in this very vivid way.”

Mr. Love was drawn to unison movement and repetition, and viewed dance as a means of creating a collective energy. “It’s not about everybody doing the dance step perfectly,” he said in a 2017 interview in Movement Research Performance Journal. “It’s so much more important than this idea of perfection, or winning.”