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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 dace 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 that 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 rage of dance works in varying styles.
1 The infulence of postmodern dance
postmodern dance lead to:
see also: 20th century concert dance
2 The postmodern choreographic process
The postmodern choreographic process may reflect the following elements:
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- revisionism
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see also: choreographic technique
3 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 Louis
