Postmodern dance is a 20th century concert dance form. A reaction to the compositional and presentation constraints of modern dance, postmodern dace hailed the use of everyday movement as valid performance art and advocated novel methods of dance composition. Claiming that Any movement was dance, and any person was a dancer (with or without training) early postmodern dance was more closely aligned with ideology of modernism rather that the architectural and literary movements of postmodernism. However, the postmodern dance movement rapidly developed to embrace the ideology of postmodernism which was reflected in the wide variety of dance works emerging from Judson dance theater, the home of postmodern dance. Lasting from the 1960s to the 1970s the main thrust of Postmodern dance was relatively short lived but its legacy lives on in contemporary dance (a blend of modernism and postmodernism) and the rise of postmodernist choreographic processes that have produced a wide rage of dance works in varying styles.
Claiming that Any movement was dance, and any person was a dancer (with or without training) early postmoderndance was more closely aligned with ideology of modernism rather that the architectural and literary movements of postmodernism.
However, the postmoderndance movement rapidly developed to embrace the ideology of postmodernism which was reflected in the wide variety of dance works emerging from Judson dance theater, the home of postmoderndance.
Lasting from the 1960s to the 1970s the main thrust of Postmoderndance was relatively short lived but its legacy lives on in contemporary dance (a blend of modernism and postmodernism) and the rise of postmodernist choreographic processes that have produced a wide rage of dance works in varying styles.
Holm's dance work Metropolitan Daily was the first moderndancecomposition to be televised on NBC and her labanotation score for Kiss Me, Kate (1948), was the first choreography to be copyrighted in the United States.
Both Postmoderndance and Contemporary dance built upon the foundations laid by Moderndance and form part of the greater category of 20th century concert dance.
Where as Postmoderndance was a direct and opposite response to Moderndance, Contemporary dance draws on both modern and postmoderndance as a source of inspiration.
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