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modern dance

NOUN
  1. a style of theatrical dancing that is not as restricted as classical ballet; movements are expressive of feelings

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  • Years later, I ended up working for a community television house that produced a weekly magazine programme covering all things Trinidadian - from Orisha festivals to modern dance recitals.
  • But the dance also encompasses a vocabulary more referential to modern dance than to ballet: suspensions, falls, skips, and knee work.
  • Some people feel modern dance is difficult to follow, somewhat abstract or esoteric.
  • The United States was recognized as the fount of neoclassic ballet, postmodern dance, and above all jazz, and American choreography and performers were exported to companies throughout the world.
  • If approximately $ 15, 000 can be raised, SummerFest will even unite modern dance and chamber music.
  • In a totally unstructured environment, they present this creative explosion through modern dance, mime, pantomime and music with a whole lot of playfulness.
  • To the traditional form of the suite - allemande, courante, sarabande, and gigue - Bach added an introductory Prélude with a pair of fashionable modern dances.
  • To the traditional form of the suite - allemande, courante, sarabande, and gigue - Bach added an introductory Prélude with a pair of fashionable modern dances.
  • Once in New York, Baryshnikov journeyed through the American modern dance repertoire, becoming ever more daring in his choices.
  • There is also something uniquely American about modern dance in that it constantly morphs, changes and absorbs different ways of moving. Smithsonian Insider
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