Contemporary dance

The dance now named contemporary dance is born in Europe and with the the United States after the Second world war. It makes following the modern Danse and begins, for some, with the currents postmodernists.

If any art is “contemporary”, therefore current, for that which saw it at its time, the expression covered various techniques and esthetics appeared during the 20th century, and one agrees today to limit the concept of it to choreographers and works which raise of the field of the modern Danse and of his prolongations. What the France called at the beginning the “new dance” or the “young dance” became, with measurement of its assertion, the contemporary dance.

Resulting initially from a will to dissociate former generations, the contemporary dancers seized the concept and are suitable for it, tacitly admitting between them an identical manner to approach the problems of the movement and body.

Contrary to the Modern music which recognizes like “contemporary” any work written during the 50 last years, the contemporary dance does not have such precise temporal limits and does not recognize itself as such as through the creators who assert themselves some: it is before any business of generation and opens on a will to name itself, to recognize itself between pars. It does not have, a priori , that to make currents Esthétique S and itself is indicated sometimes according to filiations, sometimes according to the ruptures, always or almost according to a common attitude in front of the history: to borrow the techniques from the modern or traditional currents, to bring up to date them or divert them, the métisser Theater, of Literature, Architecture, Visual arts, Circus artistic and other disciplines.

Some outstanding figures

For an exhaustive list, to see the List of the contemporary choreographers . Only here the most outstanding figures of the contemporary dance appear, of which pioneers:

The changing (principal names)

Contemporary dance in Africa - Choreographers

References

  • Isabelle Ginot and Marcelle Michel, Dance at the 20th century , Editions Larousse, 2002 (ISBN 2-0350-5283-1) .
  • Dominique Frétard, Contemporary dance, dance and not-dance , Éditions Ring Art, 2004 (ISBN 2-7022-0747-2) .

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