Contemporary Modern is designed to improve technique, flexibility, stamina, and artistry. Proper technique will be used as a departure point from which students will take risks and explore the freedom found within contemporary movement.
Contemporary Modern is designed to improve technique, flexibility, stamina, and artistry. Proper technique will be used as a departure point from which students will take risks and explore the freedom found within contemporary movement.
Contemporary fuses contemporary dance styles with jazz, ballet, and world dance influences. It emphasizes and develops proper body alignment, strength and flexibility, rhythmic and musical phrasing, and self-expression. A fun, expressive combination of global music and movement.
NW Dance Project was founded in Portland in 2004 by acclaimed dancer, mentor and choreographer Sarah Slipper.
NW Dance Project is dedicated to the creation and performance of innovative, new contemporary dance works from established and emerging dance makers created in an open and artistically stimulating environment.
NW Dance Project has fostered the creation and Portland premiere of nearly 300 original contemporary dance works to date.
Our dedication to providing dancers and dance makers the resources and creative room needed to realize new, inspired dance works led Dance International Magazine to proclaim that we are “changing the way dance is created” and that NW Dance Project has become “a laboratory, factory and repository for risk-taking new works from the next generation of choreographers from Europe and North America.”
Contemporary dance is an expressive style of dance that utilizes elements of different dance genres including modern, jazz, lyrical and classical ballet. It doesn’t have fixed or established movement patterns but it’s rather in a continuous search for new forms and dynamics
Modern/Contemporary Dance Classes are offered by South Bay Dance Center for all ages and skill level. South Bay Dance Center is recognized by many bay area professional dancers and college faculty members as the premiere dance education facility for serious dance students.
Contemporary stems from modern, jazz and ballet dance techniques. This form often utilizes: modern dance’s emphasis on the torso and use of improvisation, jazz dance’s focus on grounded/rhythmic movements and ballet dance’s attention to controlled legwork and lines.
A combination of Horton, Graham, Jazz and Ballet with a fusion of ethnic dance technique. It's a passionate and emotional dance style that uses motion to interpret music. The choreography attempts to show the meaning of the lyrics of the music.
Children love to move! Encourage them through Leap’s dance classes in ballet, pointe, tap, hip hop, jazz/lyrical and creative movement
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