Contemporary | Dance
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- Silence In The Wind -
In-sync - Contemporary Dance form successfully-surfaced during the commencement of 20th Century with celebrated American-French Dancer-Angela Isadora Duncan stepping-off Ballet and creating her own fresh-new natural style.
by William M Cardozo
Basically, Contemporary Dance incorporates various dancing styles intimately-allied with Music including Classical Ballet, jazz, Rock & Roll, Hip-Hop. Lyrical, Modern, and so on....
Fascinatingly, Contemporary is a genre of dance always full of life, wherein Dancers combine mind and body via fluid-like dance motion that’s so very flowing and sinuous.
Interestingly, worldwide Dancing & Choreography pioneers - Angela Isadora Duncan, Martha Graham, Mercier Philip “Merce” Cunningham are the ones who broke every authoritarian in Ballet from amongst Dancers-Choreographers - Twyla Tharp, William Forsythe, Doris Humphrey Wayne McGregor, Kurt Jooss, Jérôme Bel, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Jiří Kylián, Siobhan Davies, Matthew Bourne, Terence Lewis, Ohad Naharin, Hofesh Shechter, Travis Wall, Mia Michaels, Allen Kaeja, Rudolf Nureyev, Akram Khan, Robert Cohan, Sang Jijia, Rachel Browne, Shobhana Jeyasingh, Damien Jalet, Ashley Lobo, Michael Clark, Maurice Béjart, Wim Vandekeybus, Meg Stuart, Loie Fuller, Ruth St. Denis, Mary Wigman, Anna Pavlova, Rudolf von Laban,
Today, Contemporary Dance is an eclectic mix-and-match of a number of styles, with Choreographers, drawing from Ballet, Modern, and Post-Modern (structure-less) forms of dance whilst some Contemporary Dancers create characters, theatrical events, or stories, others perform fresh-new creations, and improvise dance steps in their own unique styles, as Contemporary dancing lay emphasis on versatilities and improvisations. And, Contemporary Dance stresses more on emotional and physical expressions.
Contemporary Dancers’ centre of attention-and-attraction is floor-work - and –Contemporary Dance is performed bare-feet over various genres of music. And the Choreographer makes and takes creative decision aspects ahead... whether the said titled-dance be an abstract or a narrative piece of dance.
Enthrallingly, Contemporary and Modern Dances have countless nuts-and-bolts in common akin to branches, stemming from same roots. Say… during the 19th Century theatrical dance performances were identical to Ballet – a formal technique from Courtyard Dance.
In the now-time, F.M. Alexander – The Alexander Technique – original writings and teachings has come a-fore with learning how to move on more-and-more ease, liberality, efficiency, support, and balance. The technique incorporating modern dance somatic embraces co-ordination of mental, physical, Spiritual, and emotional subject-matter of influence.
In India, alluding to some of the best examples from amongst Celebrity Personalities into Contemporary Dancing is the Indian Contemporary Dancer-Model-Actress Isha Sharvani who is much-reckoned for her stylistic Indian Contemporary dance performances. Enchantingly, she gained name and fame in the game at a very young age. A deed, indeed, “My Mother pioneered Indian Contemporary Dance movement”, avows....Bollywood Actress Isha Sharvani
And You know for sure...., romantically, all moments linger forever etched in Your memory. So, button-up in high spirits - and - You fling away Your dancing shoes and head out full of beans. Be committed and engaged!
Interestingly, worldwide Dancing & Choreography pioneers - Angela Isadora Duncan, Martha Graham, Mercier Philip “Merce” Cunningham are the ones who broke every authoritarian in Ballet from amongst Dancers-Choreographers - Twyla Tharp, William Forsythe, Doris Humphrey Wayne McGregor, Kurt Jooss, Jérôme Bel, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Jiří Kylián, Siobhan Davies, Matthew Bourne, Terence Lewis, Ohad Naharin, Hofesh Shechter, Travis Wall, Mia Michaels, Allen Kaeja, Rudolf Nureyev, Akram Khan, Robert Cohan, Sang Jijia, Rachel Browne, Shobhana Jeyasingh, Damien Jalet, Ashley Lobo, Michael Clark, Maurice Béjart, Wim Vandekeybus, Meg Stuart, Loie Fuller, Ruth St. Denis, Mary Wigman, Anna Pavlova, Rudolf von Laban,
Today, Contemporary Dance is an eclectic mix-and-match of a number of styles, with Choreographers, drawing from Ballet, Modern, and Post-Modern (structure-less) forms of dance whilst some Contemporary Dancers create characters, theatrical events, or stories, others perform fresh-new creations, and improvise dance steps in their own unique styles, as Contemporary dancing lay emphasis on versatilities and improvisations. And, Contemporary Dance stresses more on emotional and physical expressions.
Contemporary Dancers’ centre of attention-and-attraction is floor-work - and –Contemporary Dance is performed bare-feet over various genres of music. And the Choreographer makes and takes creative decision aspects ahead... whether the said titled-dance be an abstract or a narrative piece of dance.
Enthrallingly, Contemporary and Modern Dances have countless nuts-and-bolts in common akin to branches, stemming from same roots. Say… during the 19th Century theatrical dance performances were identical to Ballet – a formal technique from Courtyard Dance.
In the now-time, F.M. Alexander – The Alexander Technique – original writings and teachings has come a-fore with learning how to move on more-and-more ease, liberality, efficiency, support, and balance. The technique incorporating modern dance somatic embraces co-ordination of mental, physical, Spiritual, and emotional subject-matter of influence.
In India, alluding to some of the best examples from amongst Celebrity Personalities into Contemporary Dancing is the Indian Contemporary Dancer-Model-Actress Isha Sharvani who is much-reckoned for her stylistic Indian Contemporary dance performances. Enchantingly, she gained name and fame in the game at a very young age. A deed, indeed, “My Mother pioneered Indian Contemporary Dance movement”, avows....Bollywood Actress Isha Sharvani
And You know for sure...., romantically, all moments linger forever etched in Your memory. So, button-up in high spirits - and - You fling away Your dancing shoes and head out full of beans. Be committed and engaged!
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