dancersdreamland
Joined: 27 May 2005
Posts: 611
Location: Dancer's Dream Land
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| Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2006 6:35 pm Post subject: |
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I am not personally familiar with modern, so I am hoping another member will respond to either confirm or set straight my thoughts...
I would assume you could use some of your techniques and choreography, but my understanding is modern is an entirely different style of dance with different technique and styling. You may want to talk with your jazz instructor and see if he/she has recommendations on things you could easily change for the modern try out.
All the best with the try out! |
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DancePortugal
Joined: 04 Apr 2006
Posts: 12
Location: Lisbon Portugal
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| Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2006 7:40 pm Post subject: |
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Well, about contemporary dance, I can tell that it is reallyyy so much different from jazz. Jazz is all about marked poises, counts, the style is completely different.
A Jazz dancer, or any kind of dance with jazz in it, is supposed to have an attitude, and most performances are demonstrations, if you know what I mean.
What, overmost separates Jazz from contemporary or modern dance is the filosophy and the composition methods (because of course there are marked exercises, but its all so more organic and it's purpose are really different, as for instance, in jazz you have so many steps that are all about how they look, if you don't make them like the teacher, then it's wrong, by the instance in contemporary it's already assumed in the 1st place that every/body is different and as is your style your emotions, and that appears naturally in the dance movements.)
You cannot call your dance modern, specially if you never had contemporary classes, or even butoh.
I know that there are some amazing stunts done in contemporary that you would like to use, but contemporary dance is not about stunts, they appear as a result of the composition process, they have a actual meaning, even if that one is not obvious to the viewer. Pop up some more questions if you still heve some doubts |
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