Interpretive dance

Interpretive dance is a family of modern dance styles that began around 1900 with Isadora Duncan. It used classical concert music but marked a departure from traditional concert dance.[1][2][3] It seeks to translate human emotions, conditions, situations or fantasies into movement and dramatic expression, or else adapts traditional ethnic movements into more modern expressions.[4]

For the TV episode, see Interpretive Dance (Community).
Women's interpretive dance class, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1949

The effect of interpretive dance can be seen in many Broadway musicals as well as in other media. While it was—and most often, still is—thought of as a performing art, interpretive dance does not have to be performed with music. It often includes grandiloquent movements of the arms, turns and drops to the floor. It is frequently enhanced by lavish costumes, ribbons or spandex body suits.

See also

References
  1. Making Music For Modern Dance. Oxford University Press. p. 33–. ISBN 978-0-19-991148-6.
  2. Elizabeth Kendall (1979). Where She Danced: The Birth of American Art-dance. University of California Press. pp. 182–. ISBN 978-0-520-05173-7.
  3. Selma Jeanne Cohen (1 April 2011). The Modern Dance: Seven Statements of Belief. Wesleyan University Press. pp. 4–. ISBN 978-0-8195-7093-2.
  4. "Interpretive Dance by Nadia Hava-Robbins, MA". www.snowcrest.net.
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