This class has over the past few years developed into a very popular class. It is freedom of expression, includes great technique gained from ballet and emotion whilst dancing. Contemporary dance is an ‘anything goes’ genre.
Contemporary dance is a dance performance genre that developed during the mid-twentieth century and has since grown to become one of the dominant genres for formally trained dancers throughout the world.
If you were to ask a dance teacher today to describe contemporary, you could well be faced with words such as modern, jazz-like, loose, expressive; not formal or rigid.
This class has over the past few years developed into a very popular class. It is freedom of expression, includes great technique gained from ballet and emotion whilst dancing. Contemporary dance is an ‘anything goes’ genre.
Rather than a specific dance technique, contemporary dance is a collection of systems and methods developed mainly from modern and postmodern dance.
As the only dance school in Whangarei with a purpose-built fully furbished dance studio, WADPA has everything located under one roof. Our fully qualified and registered staff teach Ballet, Tap, Jazz, Lyrical, Acrobatic, and Contemporary Dance.
We teach age and developmentally appropriate Ballet, Tap, and Jazz dance technique classes from a syllabus that allows younger students more time for movement exploration while providing advanced students with the tools to become professional dancers.
Contemporary dance is a style of expressive dance that combines elements of several dance genres including modern, jazz, lyrical and classical ballet.
Contemporary is a genre of performance dance that employs compositional philosophy, rather than choreography, to guide unchoreographed movement.
We offer open contemporary classes that allow to develop skill that will support NCEA classes and take you on to further full-time training.
Contemporary dance is an accessible dance form that encourages both technique and creativity.
Contemporary dance utilizes both ballet and modern movement. Unpredictable changes in rhythm, speed, and direction are often used, as well as forms a creative dance expression.
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