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| Danc Enlight Company |
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| Lorelei Chang |
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Modern Instructor: Autumn Grezel
Both Postmodern dance and Contemporary dance are built upon the foundations laid by Modern dance and form
part of the greater category of 20th century concert dance. Where as Postmodern dance was a direct and opposite response to
Modern dance, Contemporary dance draws on both modern and postmodern dance as a source of inspiration. The social and artistic
upheavals of the late 1960s and 70s provoked even more radical forms of modern dance. Modern dance today is much more sophisticated
in technique and technology than when modern dance was founded. The founders composed their dances entirely of spirit, soul,
heart and mind as opposed to today's modern which has more technical aspects. The concern with social problems and the
condition of human spirit is still expressed, but the issues that are presented would have appalled many early modern dancers.
The essence of modern dance is to look forward, not back. Ballet and modern sometimes fuse together and enrich both forms,
but neither is likely to lose its identity in the process. It is impossible to predict what directions modern dance will take
in the future. Each style could go in so many different directions and are usually very radical. |
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