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Postmodern dance is a
20th century concert dance form. A reaction to the compositional and presentation constraints of
modern dance, postmodern dance hailed the use of everyday movement as valid performance art and advocated novel methods of dance
composition.
Claiming that any movement was dance, and any person was a dancer (with or without training) early postmodern dance was more closely aligned with ideology of
modernism rather than the
architectural and
literary movements of
postmodernism. However, the postmodern dance movement rapidly developed to embrace the ideology of postmodernism which was reflected in the wide variety of dance works emerging from Judson dance theater, the home of postmodern dance.
Lasting from the
1960s to the
1970s the main thrust of Postmodern dance was relatively short lived but its legacy lives on in
contemporary dance (a blend of modernism and postmodernism) and the rise of postmodernist
choreographic processes that have produced a wide range of dance works in varying styles.
The influence of postmodern dance
Postmodern dance led to:
see also: 20th century concert dance
The postmodern choreographic process
The postmodern choreographic process may reflect the following elements:
post-structuralism / deconstructivism
parody
irony
jouissance
revisionism
hyperreality
Death of the Author
see also: choreographic technique
Founders of postmodern dance
the founders of postmodern dance are
Merce Cunningham (who came before postmodern dance per se but used a postmodern choreographic process)
Robert Dunn (who taught composition at the Cunningham school)
the members of the Judson Dance Theater
Alwin Nikolais
Murray LouisFurther Information
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