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Modern dance is a broad genre of western concert or theatrical dance which includes dance styles such as ballet, folk, ethnic, religious, and social dancing; and primarily arose out of Europe and the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
With clear pioneers, pupils and principles, modern dance began to emerge as a distinctly American art form to be taught and developed throughout the country and continent. [citation needed] Later choreographers searched for new methods of dance composition. Merce Cunningham (1919–2009) introduced chance procedures and composition by field.
An early manuscript describing dance is the Natya Shastra on which is based the modern interpretation of classical Indian dance (e.g. Bharathanatyam). During the reign of the last Mughals and Nawabs of Oudh , dance fell down to the status of ' nautch ', an unethical sensuous thing of courtesans.
Ballet is a French word which had its origin in Italian balletto, a diminutive of ballo (dance) which comes from Latin ballo, ballare, meaning "to dance", [1] [2] which in turn comes from the Greek "βαλλίζω" (ballizo), "to dance, to jump about". [2] [3] The word came into English usage from the French around 1630.
Singkil is an ethnic dance of the Philippines that has its origins in the Maranao people of Lake Lanao, a Mindanao Muslim ethnolinguistic group.The dance is widely recognized today as the royal dance of a prince and a princess weaving in and out of crisscrossed bamboo poles clapped in syncopated rhythm.
Modern dance therefore became a hallmark of German unification, with Wigman's art heading the establishment of Volkish communities through dance. Whether Wigman's contributions to Nazism and its rise were intentional or unintentional is a matter of dispute, as Manning recognizes that “Mary Wigman could [have]... opposed Nazi cultural policy ...
A group of figures in front of a window, formed by dance students at Laban's Choreographic Institute in Berlin-Grunewald (November 1929).. Laban was the son of Rudolf Laban Sr. (1843–1907), a military governor in Pressburg (Pozsony) [2] and (from 1899) field marshal in the Austro-Hungarian Army in the provinces of Bosnia-Herzegovina, [9] and Marie (née Bridling; 1858–1926). [2]
Uday Shankar (born Uday Shankar Choudhary; 8 December 1900 – 26 September 1977) was an Indian dancer and choreographer, best known for creating a fusion style of dance, adapting European theatrical techniques to Indian classical dance, imbued with elements of Indian classical, folk, and tribal dance, which he later popularised in India, Europe, and the United States in the 1920s and 1930s.