modern dance
Category: Dancing type
Definition: Hollywood’s reinterpretation of “modern” choreographic movements, and specifically “modern jazz” ones, which, in the 1940s, added to the jazz aesthetic various elements of extension (legs, arms, head, backbone, plexus), torsion and isolation.
Example: « Prologue », West Side Story – « Basal metabolism », Funny Face
Partnership
This project is supported by the Labex Arts-H2H and benefits from financial support from the ANR as part of the “Investments for the future” program (ANR-10-LABX-80-01).
Development
This website has been coded by Gaétan Darquié from Shinsen Dev.
The code is open source: the frontend code is available in selma repository and the backend api code in mc3 repository.
