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Question: What is contemporary dance!?
What is it!? I am going to a dance club and we are going to do contemporary dance, but i don't know what it is!
Please answer!
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there's alot of defenitions!.!.!.its sometimes about lines etc!.!.!.but not as much as ballet is!.!.!.most kicks may have upturned feet and it may look like it freestyled!.this year's GCSE setstudy is extremely contemporary orientated and it looks great!.contemporary is sometime hard to master if yoo've has ballet training as most of it's on flat feet etc!.but ballet can help yoo with the lines etc!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

in my opinion in a club we cannot talk about contemporary dance!.
i will explain why:
in the last decades many people make confusion between modern dance and contemporary dance!. there is not a term that can make a clear difference between this two kinds of expression and people who are not involved in this area can make very easy all kind of confusions!.

the so called modern dance you can see in videos (dancers who makes all kind of movements around a singer or something like that)!. that can be hip hop, r&b, breakdance, etc!. we usually call this modern!. in a club we also can see striptease!. but i will appreciate if you'll take a look on some sites that describe contemporary dance!.

(modern dance is also Martha Graham, Pina Bausch or Merce Cunningham - and you can watch some pieces on youtube)

contemporary dance :

Xavier Le Roy, DD!.Dorvilier, Jerome Bel, Meg Stuart, etc!.
you can look on www!.sarma!.be - there you will find some critics who mention relevant names and positions in contemporary dance!. and you can also go deep with theoretical dance studies!. Www@QuestionHome@Com

i have studied contemporary dance for a long time and its movement which doesnt have to have a meaning, it can have themes you can dance with or with out music and you can just let yourself go and feel the music and can create movement which can either flow softly or can be a jagged fast dance!.


contemporary is what ever you want it to be !.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!.!Www@QuestionHome@Com

Its like a slower type of jazz; or ballet that has more emotion and conveys a lot with your bodyWww@QuestionHome@Com