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= Postmodern dance = Postmodern dance is a 20th century concert dance form that came into popularity in the early 1960s. While the term "postmodern" took on a different meaning when used to describe dance, the dance form did take inspiration from the ideologies of the wider Postmodern movement, which "sought to deflate what it saw as overly pretentious and ultimately self-serving modernist views of art and the artist" and was, more generally, a departure from modernist ideals. Lacking stylistic homogeny, Postmodern dance was discerned mainly by its anti-modern dance sentiments rather than by its dance style. The dance form was a reaction to the compositional and presentational constraints of the preceding generation of modern dance, hailing the use of everyday movement as valid performance art and advocating for unconventional methods of dance composition.

The claim that all movement was dance and any person was a dancer regardless of training early postmodern dance was more closely aligned with the ideologies of modernism rather than the architectural, literary and design movements of postmodernism. However, the postmodern dance movement rapidly developed to embrace the more broad idea of postmodernism, which was reflected in the wide variety of dance works emerging from Judson Dance Theater, a pioneering postmodern dance collective located in New York City during the 1960s.

Postmodern dance as a performance art had a relatively short lifespan, lasting only from the 1960s to the 1970s. However, the form's influence can be seen in various other dance forms, especially contemporary dance, and in postmodernist choreographic processes that are utilized by choreographers in a wide range of dance works.

Contents

 * Influence
 * Process
 * Founders
 * See also
 * References

Influence[edit | edit source]
See also: 20th century concert dance lineage of dance forms, and 20th century concert dance

Postmodern dance led to:


 * contemporary dance
 * dance improvisation
 * contact improvisation
 * dance for camera
 * the concept of all movement as dance
 * the postmodern choreographic process

Process[edit | edit source]
See also: choreographic technique

The postmodern choreographic process may reflect the following elements:


 * post-structuralism / deconstructivism
 * parody
 * irony
 * jouissance
 * hyperreality
 * Death of the Author

Founders[edit | edit source]
The founders of postmodern dance are


 * Merce Cunningham (who came before postmodern dance per se but used a postmodern choreographic process)
 * Robert Ellis Dunn (who taught composition at the Cunningham school)
 * Simone Forti
 * Anna Halprin
 * the members of the Judson Dance Theater
 * Murray Louis
 * Alwin Nikolais
 * Yvonne Rainer
 * Lucinda Childs
 * Trisha Brown

See also[edit | edit source]

 * Judson Dance Theater
 * 20th century concert dance
 * Modern dance
 * List of dance style categories
 * Dance
 * Postmodernism

References[edit | edit source]

 * Notes


 * Further reading


 * 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. ASIN B0007DSWJQ
 * Reynolds, N. and McCormick, M. (2003) No Fixed Points: Dance in the Twentieth Century. Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-09366-7

= Postmodern dance = From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigationJump to search 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, literary and design 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.[citation needed]

Lasting from the 1960s to the 1970s, the main thrust of Postmodern dance was relatively short, 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.

Contents

 * 1Influence
 * 2Process
 * 3Founders
 * 4See also
 * 5References

Influence[edit | edit source]
See also: 20th century concert dance § lineage of dance forms, and 20th century concert dance

Postmodern dance led to:


 * contemporary dance
 * dance improvisation
 * contact improvisation
 * dance for camera
 * the concept of all movement as dance
 * the postmodern choreographic process

Process[edit | edit source]
See also: choreographic technique

The postmodern choreographic process may reflect the following elements:


 * post-structuralism / deconstructivism
 * parody
 * irony
 * jouissance
 * hyperreality
 * Death of the Author

Founders[edit | edit source]
The founders of postmodern dance are


 * Merce Cunningham (who came before postmodern dance per se but used a postmodern choreographic process)
 * Robert Ellis Dunn (who taught composition at the Cunningham school)
 * Simone Forti
 * Anna Halprin
 * the members of the Judson Dance Theater
 * Murray Louis
 * Alwin Nikolais
 * Yvonne Rainer
 * Lucinda Childs
 * Trisha Brown

See also[edit | edit source]

 * Judson Dance Theater
 * 20th century concert dance
 * Modern dance
 * List of dance style categories
 * Dance
 * Postmodernism

References[edit | edit source]

 * Notes


 * Further reading


 * 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. ASIN B0007DSWJQ
 * Reynolds, N. and McCormick, M. (2003) No Fixed Points: Dance in the Twentieth Century. Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-09366-7