Dance → Dance is a type of art that generally refers to movement of the body, usually rhythmic and to music, performed in many different cultures and used as a form of expression, social interaction or presented in a spiritual or performance setting.
Dance halls → Dance hall in its general meaning is a hall for dancing. From the earliest years of the twentieth century until the early 1960s, the dance hall was the popular forerunner of the discothèque or nightclub. The majority of towns and cities in the West had at least one dance hall, and almost always featured live musicians playing a range of music from strict tempo ballroom dance music to big band, swing and jazz. One of the most famous dance hall musicians was Glenn Miller.
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20th century concert dance is the name given to a category of dance forms that include:
- Free dance
- Modern dance
- Expressionist dance
- Postmodern dance
- Dance improvisation
- Contemporary dance
- Dance for camera
Although technically 20th century concert dance, the following dance forms are considered under the separate category of Ballet or 20th century ballet:
- Contemporary ballet
- Neoclassical ballet
- Deconstructivist ballet / Post-structuralist ballet
lineage of dance forms
Relationship to art movements
Although sharing the name of art movements the dance forms may not relate to them directly. From an ideological and conceptual point of view the connections are shown below:
- Expressionism
- Free dance
- Modern dance
- Expressionist dance
- Ausdruckstanz
- Tanztheater (dance theatre)
- physical theatre
- Ausdruckstanz
- Modernism
- Postmodern dance
- Dance improvisation
- contact improvisation
- Dance improvisation
- Postmodern dance
- Postmodernism
- Postmodern dance
- Contemporary dance
- Dance for camera
- Postmodern dance
notes:
- This list is given as an illustrative example and should not be used for re classificatio ... Read the rest of this article