Dance lover
Modern and contemporary style are my favorite
Contemporary dance is a genre of 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. In terms of the focus of its technique, contemporary
dance tends to combin the strong but controlled legwork of ballet with
modern that stresses on torso. It also employs
contract-release, floor work, fall and recovery, and improvisation
characteristics of modern dance.
Contemporary dance draws on both classical ballet and modern dance,
whereas postmodern dance was a direct and opposite response to modern
dance. Merce Cunningham is considered to be the first choreographer to
"develop an independent attitude towards modern dance"
and defy the ideas that were established by it.