Modern_Dance

Modern Dance Modern dance is the term used for the 20th-century theatrical dance movement. The movement was started by American dancer Isadora Duncan in a rebellion against ballet, which she felt was too constricting. Duncan based her dance technique and style on the Greeks. She identified with their ideals of human form and beauty. Although her way of dance was originally met with strong opposition, her ideas later came into wide favor. Another influential person in the world of modern dance was Merce Cunningham. Also American, Cunningham was a dancer and choreographer. He studied folk, tap, and ballroom dance in his youth, but after meeting the very avant-garde composer John Cage, began to create more modern dances. His and Duncan’s dance style exhibited similarities in the seemingly improvisational aspect of their techniques. Alvin Ailey was another dancer-choreographer with a great impact on modern dance. Founder of the internationally renowned dance, modern, theater, style, dancer, company, wuppertal, unique, movement, horton, director, cunningham, combination, choreographer, came, ballet, american, ailey, after, youth, years, world, women, wide, way, very, various, unconventional, theatrical, term, techniques, technique, tap, tanztheater, studied