THTR 1800 Chapter : Chapter 6 Modern Dance
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Contemporary dance has many different meanings: a technique that focuses on a fusion of techniques and styles, a technique that is based on emotion and story-telling, the newness or modernness of the form. Today what is taught and choreographed in modern dance is an eclectic type of technique, pulling from traditional, post-modern, and contemporary techniques to develop their own style. Isadora duncan credited to be the first dancer to present modern dance. Thought ballet as a whole was too confining: wanted to begin a dance that seemed more natural, her two children died but she adopted six of her students who kept the technique going. Inspired many contemporary ballet choreographers like michel fokine. Loved music by chopin after her death: ruth st. denis and ted shawn, married and formed denishawn school. To educate the total dancer- body, mind, and spirit. Their marriage ended along with their company and each went their separate ways and created dance companies.
