Modern Dance

• Modern Dance: also called as Contemporary Dance
• Modern Dance: It is a style of dancing where dancers are free to express their feelings through movements without adhering to any rules in dance particularly that of ballet.
• Modern Dance: has new varieties like tilting, twisting, and bending movements
• Modern Dance: it portrays actual human situation
• Characteristics of Modern Dance:

  1. Technique
  2. Improvisation
  3. Choreography
• Technique: purely interpretative dance, but there are technical approach
• Technique: includes dances that requires control to the body and in sync with the music
• Technique: is to develop an instrument "body" that is capable of expressing any aspect of human behavior.
• Improvisation: it refers to spontaneous movement by dancers and response to suggestions of the choreographer.
• Choreography: freedom within dancers
• Modern Dance: was developed independently in America and Germany
• Modern Dance: known in Germany as means of expressive dance.
• Modern Dance: Started in the Philippines in 20th Century
• Basic Modern Dance Skills:

  1. Dance Walk
  2. Run
  3. Chassé/Slide
  4. Jumps, Sauté, Sissonne
  5. Falling
  6. Turns
• Dance Walk: helps maintain body weight and ready for immediate action
• Dance walk: can be forward, backward, and sideward
• Run: Faster than a walk and requires more energy and power
• Chassé or slide: gliding step in dancing in which one foot displaces the other
• Sauté: a jump from two feet which lands on two feet
• Sissonne: aa jump from two feet, landing on one foot
• Falling: actions that aesthetically breath taking and catchy, usually in cheer dances
• Turns: involves establishing an axis within the body