definition of modern/contemporary dance

Postmodern dance is a  20th century concert dance  form. A reaction to the compositional and presentation constraints of modern dance , postmodern dance hailed the use of everyday movement as valid performance art and advocated novel methods of dance  composition .

Claiming that any movement was dance, and any person was a dancer (with or without training) early postmodern dance was more closely aligned with ideology of  modernism  rather than the architectural,  literary  and  design  movements of  postmodernism . However, the postmodern dance movement rapidly developed to embrace the ideology of postmodernism which was reflected in the wide variety of dance works emerging from  Judson Dance Theater , the home of postmodern dance.

Lasting from the 1960s to the 1970s the main thrust of Postmodern dance was relatively short lived but its legacy lives on in  contemporary dance  (a blend of modernism and postmodernism) and the rise of postmodernist  choreographic processes that have produced a wide range of dance works in varying styles.

So, postmodern dance is a form claiming that any  movement  is  dance , and any  person  is a  dancer , with or without training. As a reaction to the compositional and presentation constraints of  modern dance , postmodern dance hails the use of everyday movement (pedestrian) as a valid  performance art .  From Urban Dictionary.

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