It harks back to a pre-modern infantalisation of the idea of representation that has been critiqued, for example, in visual art history as a period ... time to acknowledge that contemporary dance ...

All this is representative of contemporary swing dance ... films and commercials using swing dance have tended to treat it as an ambered period style or a costumed caricature.

Advanced Modern/Contemporary Dance is one of several upper division technique classes that challenge students at the highest level with advanced training in modern/contemporary dance principles of ...

Especially after the Cultural Revolution in the 1960s, modern dance was essentially forbidden. This began to change in the 1980s, during the “reform and opening up” period. As early as 1980 ...

Dr. Welsh, a Guggenheim Award winner, will tell of how her time ... African dance elements with African American-derived rhythms. The names of its movements and structures convey cultural and ...

Dance facilitates creative connections, grounds dancers and provides an emotional and physical outlet. At Purdue Contemporary Dance Company (PCDC), students find refuge in the art of dance and are ...

Paul Taylor, one of the most prolific and influential choreographers in the world of modern dance, died Wednesday ... will live on for a very, very long time." In 2008, Paul Taylor wrote an ...

It's an exciting time for ... other forms of dance weren't suffering the same doldrums. Indeed, choreographers, such as Michael Clark and Russell Maliphant, left ballet for contemporary dance ...

It was a boom time for modern dance on the West Coast. Several of Mordine’s contemporaries moved to New York to pioneer a burgeoning postmodern movement (Simone Forti, Trisha Brown and Yvonne ...

One of the latest local arts groups to announce the coming 2022-23 season: Sarasota Contemporary Dance, entering its 17 ... while at the same time the four-show season will revive pieces from ...