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• Modern dance is often considered to have emerged as a rejection of, or rebellion against, classical ballet, although historians have suggested that socioeconomic changes in both the United States and Europe helped to initiate shifts in the dance world.
• Modern dance can be divided (roughly) into three periods or eras, Early Modern, Central Modern and Late Modern period.
• Isadora Duncan is often referred to as the "Mother of Modern Dance", she is most famous for her death in 1927 at the age of 50, when her scarf got caught in an automobile's wheel and strangled her.
• Isadora Duncan described ballet as "ugly and against nature", she wanted her "modern" dance style to be free and natural.
• Ruth St. Denis was an American modern dance pioneer, introducing eastern ideas into the art.
• Loie Fuller developed a form of natural movement and improvisation techniques that were used in conjunction with her revolutionary lighting equipment and translucent silk costumes.
• Ted Shawn was one of the first notable male pioneers of American modern dance.
• Martha Graham is known as the "Mother of Contemporary Dance", she codified a vocabulary of Modern dance that still prevails and is the closest thing to a "mainstream" Modern dance.
• Katherine Mary Dunham is known as the "Queen Mother of Black Dance", she was an African-American dancer, choreographer, author, educator, anthropologist, and social activist.
• Interpretative Dance incorporates a wide variety of dance styles and techniques, with the most important element being that it typically depicts a story or emotion.
• Contemporary Dance is a hybrid of ballet and modern dance.
• Abstraction in dance does not tell a story, nor is related to symbolic contents or any kind of associations with feelings, ideas or other elements than movement itself.
• A dance can be considered as abstract if it is seen through the frame of pure movement and/or its components.
• Alignment in dance is the placement of bones in such a way that increases physiological effectiveness and health.
• Depending on the dance genre, the alignment can vary according to its specific aesthetic goals.
• Arch in dance is a position where the whole or upper body is extended, creating the form of an arch.
• Beat in dance is the basic unit used to measure time in both the choreographic and musical language.
• Contraction in dance refers to the forward curving of the spine, starting from the pelvic zone.
• Hip-hop Dance is part of a greater culture that began in the streets rather than having been developed by dance masters of famed academies and institutions, which is how many classical forms of dance originated.
• The three unique aspects of Hip-hop dance are freestyle movement, the involvement of battles, and the use of ciphers.
• When Hip-hop dancers participate in freestyle routines they do not adhere to any choreographic sequence of steps, but rather improvise their own moves on the spot.
• Hip-hop dance battles may be between individual dancers or crews.
• Hip-hop dance battles originate from informal dance contests that took place in the streets and popular night time establishments.
• In using ciphers, hip-hop dancers form a circle.
• One dancer enters to perform a sequence of choreographed or freestyles moves while the remaining dancers in the circle yell out jeers or encouragements for the person performing.
• The term "street dance" arrived in the Philippines from the United States during the 1980s but only gained unparalleled popularity during the 1990s.
• The term "street dance" is a "Filipinized version" of hip-hop dance specifically used by Filipino dancers.
• Cheerleading - is an event that consists of cheers and organized routines for sports team

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• Break dancing, also known as B-boying, started as a form of fighting, a mixture of physically demanding movements which exploited the daredevil prowess of their performers, and stylized punching and kicking movements directed at an opponent.
• Krump is a street dance that is characterized by its free, expressive, and highly energetic nature.
• Tutting is a dance style that mimics the angular poses common to ancient Egyptian art.
• Stomping is a form of percussive dance in which the participants entire body is used as an instrument to produce complex rhythms and sounds through a mixture of footsteps, spoken word, and hand claps.
• Vogue, a street dance created by the gay community, was inspired by photos of models in poses in various positions such as posturing hands, feet and body movements in linear.
• Isolation is a fluid style that uses every part of the body and involves using angles and smooth movements to make everything flow together.
• Waacking is a form of street dance created in the LGBT clubs of Los Angeles during the 1970s disco era.