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A dancer performing a contemporary dance piece Indian Contemporary Dancer at 2018 Folklorama Festival, Winnipeg. 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.
Martha Graham (May 11, 1894 – April 1, 1991) [1] was an American modern dancer and choreographer, whose style, the Graham technique, reshaped American dance and is still taught worldwide. [2] Graham danced and taught for over seventy years. She was the first dancer to perform at the White House, travel abroad as a cultural ambassador, and ...
Known for. Choreography. Movement. Modern dance. Charles Weidman (July 22, 1901 – July 15, 1975) was a renowned choreographer, modern dancer and teacher. He is well known as one of the pioneers of modern dance in America. He wanted to break free from the traditional movements of dance forms popular at the time to create a uniquely American ...
In 1988, the José Limón National Dance Award was created in his honor to recognize outstanding figures of contemporary and modern dance. [15] The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts presented a retrospective exhibition on his life and work in 1996, and in 1997 he was inducted into the National Museum of Dance and Hall of Fame. [3]
Modern dance is a broad genre of western concert or theatrical dance which includes dance styles such as ballet, folk, ethnic, religious, and social dancing; and primarily arose out of Europe and the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It was considered to have been developed as a rejection of, or rebellion against ...
Donald McKayle (July 6, 1930 – April 6, 2018 [2]) was an American modern dancer, choreographer, teacher, director and writer best known for creating socially conscious concert works during the 1950s and '60s that focus on expressing the human condition and, more specifically, the black experience in America. He was "among the first black men ...
February 17, 1974. (1974-02-17) (aged 62) Los Angeles, California, U.S. Occupations. choreographer. dancer. Jack Cole (born John Ewing Richter; April 27, 1911 – February 17, 1974) was an American dancer, choreographer, and theatre director known as "the Father of Theatrical Jazz Dance " [1] for his role in codifying African-American jazz ...
Closely related to the development of American music in the early 20th century was the emergence of a new, and distinctively American, art form – modern dance. Among the early innovators was Isadora Duncan (1878–1927), who stressed pure, unstructured movement in lieu of the positions of classical ballet. Duncan said "from early childhood I ...