What's the difference between lyrical and contemporary dance?

Question: What's the difference between lyrical and contemporary dance!?

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contemporary

http://en!.wikipedia!.org/wiki/Contemporar!.!.!.

Contemporary Dance is the name given to a group of 20th century concert dance forms!. It is a collection of systems and methods developed from Modern and Postmodern dance, thus contemporary dance is not a specific dance technique!. Australian, European, Canadian and American contemporary dance differ from each other in a number of ways!.

Contemporary dance principles include: centering, alignment, gravity, breath, contraction, release, fall and recovery, spension, balance and off-balance, tension and relaxation, opposition and emotion!.

lyrical

Lyrical dance is a fusion of ballet and jazz dance techniques!.

Lyrical dance challenges choreographers and dancers to use motion to interpret music and express emotion!. A lyrical dancer's movements attempt to show the meaning of the music!. Lyrical jazz is a very passionate and emotional dance style!. It portrays certain emotions such as love, and tells a story through every movement made!.

http://en!.wikipedia!.org/wiki/Lyrical_dan!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

lyrical is like contemporary only it is more emotional and based off the lyrics of the song!.

contemporary usually refers to modern but it is not a specific style!.

modern:http://en!.wikipedia!.org/wiki/Modern_danc!.!.!.

lyrical: http://en!.wikipedia!.org/wiki/Lyrical_dan!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com