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The United States of America is the home of the hip hop dance, swing, tap dance and its derivative Rock and Roll, and modern square dance (associated with the United States of America due to its historic development in that country—twenty three U.S. states have designated it as their official state dance or official folk dance) and one of the major centers for modern dance.
Closely related to the development of American music in the early 20th century was the emergence of a new, and distinctively American, art form – modern dance. Among the early innovators was Isadora Duncan (1878–1927), who stressed pure, unstructured movement in lieu of the positions of classical ballet.
Eventually, postmodern dance artists would reject the formalism of modern dance, and include elements such as performance art, contact improvisation, release technique, and improvisation. [3] [4] American modern dance can be divided (roughly) into three periods or eras.
Dab (America) Dabke (Arab folk dance native to the Levant) Daggering; Dalkhai (Folk dance from Western Odisha, India) Dance of Osman Taka; Dance video games (emotes from video games) Dancer's Delight (Scottish) Dances of Universal Peace; Danda Nata (Folk dance from Odisha, India) Dandiya Raas; Danza de los Viejitos; Danza de los Voladores ...
This is a list of dance categories, different types, styles, or genres of dance. For older and more region-oriented vernacular dance styles, see List of ethnic, regional, and folk dances by origin .
Theatrical dance, also called performance or concert dance, is intended primarily as a spectacle, usually a performance upon a stage by virtuoso dancers. It often tells a story, perhaps using mime, costume and scenery, or it may interpret the musical accompaniment, which is often specially composed and performed in a theatre setting but it is not a requirement.
Choreography is the art of making dances, and the person who does this is called a choreographer. Definitions of what constitutes dance are dependent on social , cultural , aesthetic , artistic and moral constraints and range from functional movement (such as Folk dance ) to codified, virtuoso techniques such as ballet .
Willa Mae Ricker and Leon James, original Lindy Hop dancers in iconic Life magazine photograph, 1943 Norma Miller and Skip Cunningham 2009 Lindy Hop Dance, 2013. The Lindy Hop is an American dance which was born in the African-American communities of Harlem, New York City, in 1928 and has evolved since then.