Postmodern dance

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Postmodern dance is a style of some of the 20th century choreographies. It was created in response to the emergence and performance of modern dance . In contrast to this, postmodern dance wanted to prove that everyday movements were also worth performing.

Assuming that “every movement is part of a dance and every person is a dancer” (with or without any dance experience), early postmodern dance was more related to the ideology of modernity than to postmodern ideas such as those in the literature or architecture to be found. Nevertheless, a movement quickly developed that can be found today in the great variety of works of the Judson Dance Theater , the home of postmodern dance.

The peak of postmodern dance, between the 1960s and the 1970s, was short-lived, but the legacy can still be found today in contemporary dance, as well as in the works of various styles that are still emerging.

Typical elements are parody , irony , dance just for the joy of movement and a special awareness of reality.

Developed through postmodern dance:

Founder of postmodern dance

  • Merce Cunningham (who actually came before the wave of postmodern dance per se , but was already using the postmodern choreographic process)
  • Robert Dunn (composition teacher at Cunningham School)
  • Alwin Nikolais
  • Murray Louis
  • Anna Halprin

literature

  • Banes, S (1987) Terpsichore in Sneakers: Post-Modern Dance . Wesleyan University Press. ISBN 0-8195-6160-6
  • Banes, S (Ed) (1993) Greenwich Village 1963: Avant-Garde Performance and the Effervescent Body . Duke University Press. ISBN 0-8223-1391-X
  • Banes, S (Ed) (2003) Reinventing Dance in the 1960s: Everything Was Possible . University of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 0-299-18014-X
  • Bremser, M. (Ed) (1999) Fifty Contemporary Choreographers . Routledge. ISBN 0-415-10364-9
  • Carter, A. (1998) The Routledge Dance Studies Reader . Routledge. ISBN 0-415-16447-8
  • Copeland, R. (2004) Merce Cunningham: The Modernizing of Modern Dance . Routledge. ISBN 0-415-96575-6
  • Denby, Edwin "Dancers, Buildings, and People in the Streets". (1965) Curtis Books.
  • Huschka, Sabine (2002). American postmodern dance. Found reactivated, set rearranged. In Sabine Huschka: Modern Dance. Concepts, styles, utopias. rowohlt's encyclopedia. Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, Reinbek near Hamburg. Pp. 246-277.
  • Reynolds, N. and McCormick, M. (2003) No Fixed Points: Dance in the Twentieth Century . Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-09366-7