Dance History

Listen, modern dance has only been around for about 100 years. It has grown and developed and explored and it is awesome. Sometimes it stinks too. It began as a revolt against ballet and it kept revolting against other kinds of dance, mostly itself. We are studying the self-revolt of the 1960's when the formal was rejected and the pedestrian was embraced. It has the confusing term Postmodern dance which other than following modern dance has no relation to postmodernism in any other way. Here we are in class, mastering the history.