Definition of Modern dance

1. Noun. A style of theatrical dancing that is not as restricted as classical ballet; movements are expressive of feelings.


Definition of Modern dance

1. Noun. A modern form of ballet that is more informal than classical ballet ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

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Literary usage of Modern dance

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Beginnings of Art by Ernst Grosse (1897)
"The modern dance is only a degenerated aesthetical and social remnant ; the primitive dance is the most immediate, most perfect, and most efficient ..."

2. Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians by George Grove (1910)
"It is generally admitted that the modern dance first made its appearance about the year 1780, ... therefore the modern dance was contemporary with the tune. ..."

3. American Medicine (1921)
"One such observation is of more value for the proper estimation of the modern dance than dozens of questionnaires sent out to the dancers and to their ..."

4. Famous Composers and Their Works by John Knowles Paine, Theodore Thomas, Karl Klauser (1891)
"And not only has the waltz been universally adopted, but it has become the dance of dances, the modern dance par excellence, the rapturous dance in which ..."

5. Vision: A Magazine for Youth (1889)
"That you blush when I speak of it only shows that there is a resurrection of the blushes that the modern dance has killed, and sent long ago to their graves ..."

6. Source Book for Social Origins: Ethnological Materials, Psychological by William Isaac Thomas (1909)
"But the primitive dance and the modern dance are so extremely different in ... The particular feature which has caused the modern dance to be favoured by ..."

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