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Lyrical dance is a dance style that embodies various aspects of ballet, jazz, acrobatics, and modern dance. [ 1] The style combines ballet technique with the freedom and musicality of jazz and contemporary. [ 1] According to Jennifer Fisher, lyrical dance is “strongly associated with clearly displayed emotional moods, fast-moving ...
Thus, dance is similar to language, where grammar depends on procedural memory and memory of words depends on declarative memory. Dance also involves feelings and personal experience. Each contemporary dancer has a moving identity as a result of a collection of choreographic and training influences that reveals a personal narrative.
Contemporary dance[ 1] is a genre of dance performance that developed during the mid-twentieth century and has since grown to become one of the dominant genres for formally trained dancers throughout the world, with particularly strong popularity in the U.S. and Europe. Although originally informed by and borrowing from classical, modern, and ...
Interpretive dance is a family of modern dance styles that began around 1900 with Isadora Duncan. It used classical concert music but marked a departure from traditional concert dance, as a rebellion against the strict rules of classical ballet. [ 1][ 2][ 3] It seeks to translate human emotions, conditions, situations or fantasies into movement ...
Nancy Julia Chodorow (born January 20, 1944) is an American sociologist and professor. [ 2] She began her career as a professor of Women's Studies at Wellesley College in 1973, and from 1974 on taught at the University of California, Santa Cruz, until 1986. [ 3] She then was a professor in the departments of Sociology and Clinical Psychology at ...
Neo-expressionism is a style of late modernist or early- postmodern painting and sculpture that emerged in the late 1970s. Neo-expressionists were sometimes called Transavantgarde, Junge Wilde or Neue Wilden ('The new wild ones'; 'New Fauves' would better meet the meaning of the term). It is characterized by intense subjectivity and rough ...
Dance theory is the philosophy underpinning contemporary dance, including formal ideologies, aesthetic concepts, and technical attributes. [1] It is a fairly new field of study, developing largely in the 20th century. It can be considered a branch of expression theory [2] and is closely related to music theory and specifically musicality. [3]
How ‘West Side Story’s’ First-Class Music Team Preserved the Authenticity of Leonard Bernstein’s Score