Modern
An American Ballroom Companion: Dance Instruction Manuals
This is a digital copy of "Modern Dancing" which is a dance manual containing descriptions of steps for waltzes, polkas and latin dances along with modern dance.
This is a digital copy of "Modern Dancing" which is a dance manual containing descriptions of steps for waltzes, polkas and latin dances along with modern dance.
The Early Moderns Tutorial
Read all about the history of modern dance. Great for beginners and intermediate teachers of modern dance. This site will introduce you to some of the most important figures in American modern dance, see some of the dances they created, hear the music they worked with, and read about the cultural events that shaped their evolutions. Get ready to open your senses, get ready to discover the world of THE EARLY MODERNS.
Read all about the history of modern dance. Great for beginners and intermediate teachers of modern dance. This site will introduce you to some of the most important figures in American modern dance, see some of the dances they created, hear the music they worked with, and read about the cultural events that shaped their evolutions. Get ready to open your senses, get ready to discover the world of THE EARLY MODERNS.
The Canadian Encyclopedia of Dance
Modern dance is a confusing term - loosely used and requiring explanation. For some people it simply means "not classical ballet," by which they mean not rooted in an
established academic code of movement. This usage, however, lumps together genres that are better understood in their particularity such as Post Modern Dance and New Dance. In fact, Modern Dance can now be used as a historic term referring to a particular group of choreographers and the tradition of dance values they established.
Increasingly, the term is used to describe a variety of styles that developed in the early 20th century as a reaction to classical BALLET. Its exponents viewed classical ballet as decadent and moribund. They believed that ballet had drifted away from the prime motives of dance and had become little more than a bourgeois confection. Traditionalists retaliated by referring to modern dance as "barefoot ballet." This was the debate that informed the breakaway movement we now refer to as
modern dance.
Modern dance is a confusing term - loosely used and requiring explanation. For some people it simply means "not classical ballet," by which they mean not rooted in an
established academic code of movement. This usage, however, lumps together genres that are better understood in their particularity such as Post Modern Dance and New Dance. In fact, Modern Dance can now be used as a historic term referring to a particular group of choreographers and the tradition of dance values they established.
Increasingly, the term is used to describe a variety of styles that developed in the early 20th century as a reaction to classical BALLET. Its exponents viewed classical ballet as decadent and moribund. They believed that ballet had drifted away from the prime motives of dance and had become little more than a bourgeois confection. Traditionalists retaliated by referring to modern dance as "barefoot ballet." This was the debate that informed the breakaway movement we now refer to as
modern dance.