In class students will warm up with stretches and strengthening exercises before moving onto dance choreography.
Contemporary is a modern dance style that crosses various genres including jazz, lyrical and ballet. It’s a fluid style of dance that includes a lot of floor work, tumbling and abstract movements.
In class students will warm up with stretches and strengthening exercises before moving onto dance choreography.
Unlike other styles where technique can be rigid, dancers are encouraged to connect the mind and body to movements and apply their own interpretation to express choreography.
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Contemporary dance is very interpretive in its choreography and often focuses on emotions or storytelling. Contemporary can be balletic or abstract, jazz-influenced or lyrical, structured or unconventional.
Contemporary dance is an artform that uses human movement as its palette. We train the dancer to move as a whole being with particular attention to skills that bring extra awareness to the torso, getting in and out of the floor, improvisation and encouraging a thinking dancer.
Contemporary Dance Lessons are offered by Dance & Art Centre for all ages and abilities. Dance, the movement of the body in a rhythmic way for the purpose of releasing energy, expressing an idea or emotion or simply taking enchantment in the movement itself.
A form of dance which takes its technique from classical ballet but permits a greater range of movement and abstract shapes. It is athletic in nature and pulls upon yoga and Pilates principles to create strength.
Contemporary dance is one of our popular dance styles and is a particularly innovative way of moving the body.
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