Contemporary dance

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Unlike classical ballet, contemporary ballet often utilizes ground work and dancers often perform in bare feet.

A dancer performing a contemporary dance piece

Contemporary dance is a genre of concert dance that employs systems and methods found in modern dance and postmodern dance. Contemporary dance draws on modern dance techniques as well as newer philosophies of movement that depart from classical dance techniques by altogether omitting structured form and movement.^{[citation needed]}

Pioneers of contemporary dance include Isadora Duncan, Ruth St. Denis, Doris Humphrey, Mary Wigman, Francois Delsarte, Emilie Jaques-Dalcroze, Merce Cunningham, Martha Graham, Rudolph von Laban, Loie Fuller, Jose Limon and Marie Rambert. Dance techniques and movement philosophies employed in contemporary dance include:

• Alexander Technique^{[citation needed]}
• Bartenieff Fundamentals
• Contact Improvisation
• Dance Improvisation
• Feldenkrais method^{[citation needed]}
• Hawkins technique
• Horton Technique
• Humphrey-Weidman technique
• Graham technique
• Cunningham Technique
• Gyrotonic and Gyrokinesis
• Kinesiology
• Pilates
• Release Technique
• Yoga

[edit] See also

• Contemporary ballet
• Tanztheater
• ImPulsTanz Vienna International Dance Festival

[edit] External links

• Making Sense of Contemporary Dance: An Australian Investigation