Category: Contemporary dance

Rudolf von Laban and Mary Wigman laid the foundations for the development of Contemporary dance.

Contemporary ballet is a form of dance influenced by both classical ballet and modern dance.

Contemporary St. Louis shag, for instance, ( an eight-count dance ) does not look much like contemporary Carolina Shag, though both originated in the Swing era of the 1930s and 40s.

The Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts is a performing arts festival that takes place near Pilton, Somerset, England, best known for its contemporary music, but also for dance, comedy, theatre, circus, cabaret and other arts.

Lake Success is the city of license for popular regional dance / Hot Adult Contemporary radio station WKTU, although the station is based in Manhattan along with other Clear Channel stations.

* Contemporary dance in Japan

It has five active Morris dance sides, the Wharfedale Wayzgoose, ( Border ), The Buttercross Belles ( Ladies Northwest ), Flash Company ( Border, Molly, Appalachian & Clog ), Hellz Bellz ( Contemporary ) and Kitchen Taps ( Appalachian Step ).

Contemporary choreographers working primarily in site-specific dance include: Noémie Lafrance ; Tom Pearson and Zach Morris of Third Rail Projects ; Andrea Haenggi / AMDaT ; Tamar Rogoff ; Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre ; and Clarinda Mac Low, Paul Benny, Alejandra Mortorell of TRYST, and Genevieve Bernard of Voci Dance.

The Richard Alston Dance Company is a medium size contemporary dance company that was formed in 1994 after the demise of the London Contemporary Dance Theatre, based at The Place in London.

Notable Israeli dance companies include the Batsheva Dance Company and the Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company.

Contemporary music includes e. g. a renowned metal music scene, in common with the other Nordic countries, as well as a number of prominent rock and pop bands, jazz musicians, hip hop performers and makers of dance music.

A dance section, the " International Festival of Contemporary Dance ", was established in 1999.

Contemporary K-pop is dominated by dance groups featuring young entertainers the latest looks and dance skills.

Contemporary sources for dance crazes include music videos and movies.

Contemporary dance emerged in the 1950s as a dance form combining elements of modern dance and classical ballet.

Whereas Postmodern dance was a direct and opposite response to Modern dance, Contemporary dance draws on both modern and postmodern dance as a source of inspiration.

Contemporary analysis distinguishes tangible, physical, or nonhuman capital goods from other forms of capital such as human capital.

Contemporary hypnotism makes use of a wide variety of different forms of suggestion including: direct verbal suggestions, " indirect " verbal suggestions such as requests or insinuations, metaphors and other rhetorical figures of speech, and non-verbal suggestion in the form of mental imagery, voice tonality, and physical manipulation.

Contemporary media studies includes the analysis of new media with emphasis on the internet, video games, mobile devices, interactive television, and other forms of mass media which developed from the 1990s.

Contemporary authors, too, suggest that spirituality develops inner peace and forms a foundation for happiness.

The National Museum of Contemporary Art ( MNAC ), situated in a wing of the Palace of the Parliament, was opened in 2004 and contains a widespread collection of Romanian and international contemporary art, in a number of expressive forms.

Within contemporary forms of music ( sometimes referred to as Contemporary Commercial Music ), singers are classified by the style of music they sing, such as jazz, pop, blues, soul, country, folk, and rock styles.

Contemporary forms of popular culture, much like the traditional forms, provide not only entertainment but also an escape for the contemporary Japanese from the problems of an industrial world.

Other forms of Modern art ( some of which border on Contemporary art ) include:

Contemporary to Shiki was the idea that traditional Japanese poetic short forms, such as the haiku and tanka, were waning due to their incongruity in the modern Meiji Period.

Contemporary slavery comes in various forms, including bonded labour, early and forced marriages, forced labor, slavery by descent, and human trafficking.

Contemporary views of curriculum reject these features of Bobbitt's postulates, but retain the basis of curriculum as the course of experience ( s ) that forms human beings into persons.

Contemporary forms of the music are also characterised by quick tempi and rapid delivery, while tempi tend to be slower in traditional forms and in some Lao genres.

Contemporary beliefs that artistic creation should not be swayed by financial gains or the demands of patrons or customers, and the belief that the greatest artists are those who create new and entirely unprecedented forms of expression, rather than those who develop already existing forms, all owe a great deal to the influence of Schopenhauer.

Contemporary popular forms such as Zambian Kalindula also exhibit traces of traditional music in the finger-picking style used by guitarists.

In the 20th century, the stones became an important site for adherents of various forms of Contemporary Paganism, as well as for other esotericists who continue to hold magico-religious ceremonies there.

Contemporary journaling can take many forms.

Contemporary African-American dance is descended from these earlier forms and also draws influence from African and Caribbean dance forms.

Contemporary Mexican journalists and foreigners who knew these women in the first half of the nineteenth century call attention to the way in which the fashion of peasant women showed off their feminine forms, or were an appropriate feature of all the graces that were attributed to these women.

Always active in United States with avant-garde music artists, he has been awarded a CAPS Grant in multi-media, a grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts in 2004, a New York State Council on the Arts commission grant for flutist Barbara Held, a National Endowment for the Arts grant for collaborative work with Blondell Cummings and Senga Nengdi, and a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in performance / emerging forms.

Contemporary set theorists also study axioms that are not compatible with the axiom of choice, such as the axiom of determinacy.

Increased interest in modern a cappella ( particularly collegiate a cappella ) can be seen in the growth of awards such as the Contemporary A Cappella Recording Awards ( overseen by the Contemporary A Cappella Society ) and competitions such as the International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella for college groups and the Harmony Sweepstakes for all groups.

Contemporary scholars and patriots such as Noah Webster, John Trumbull, and Joel Barlow were instrumental in securing the passage of these statutes.

Contemporary colloquial Cantonese has distinct loanwords from English, such as 卡通 " cartoon ", 基佬 " gay people ", 的士 " taxi ", and 巴士 " bus ".

Contemporary critics such as Webbe and Puttenham praised his poetic ability, and his verses were published in several poetry miscellanies.

Contemporary filmmakers such as Woody Allen, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Pedro Almodovar, Tim Burton, Terry Gilliam, Emir Kusturica, David Lynch, Girish Kasaravalli, David Cronenberg, Martin Scorsese, and Juraj Jakubisko have cited Fellini's influence on their work.

Contemporary examples of modern German-style board games referred to as German-style, such as Acquire, appeared in the 1960s.

Contemporary American writers in this tradition include Joyce Carol Oates, in such novels as Bellefleur and A Bloodsmoor Romance and short story collections such as Night-Side ( Skarda 1986b ) and Raymond Kennedy in his novel Lulu Incognito.

Contemporary literary theory, however, denies the attribution of such fixed meanings.

Contemporary developments in logic and the foundations of mathematics, especially Bertrand Russell and Alfred North Whitehead's monumental Principia Mathematica, impressed the more mathematically minded logical positivists such as Hans Hahn and Rudolf Carnap.

The difference is mostly in the era and styles covered -- Easy Listening is mostly older music done in the style of standards from the early 20th century ( typical artists include Johnny Mathis and Frank Sinatra ) combined with Big Band music and more modern performers in the same style such as Céline Dion and Josh Groban, while Adult Contemporary focuses more on newer pop music from the 1970s on.

Since the late 1980s especially, prose poetry has gained increasing popularity, with entire journals, such as The Prose Poem: An International Journal, Contemporary Haibun Online and Modern Haibun & Tanka Prose devoted to that genre.

Contemporary Paganism, or Neopaganism, includes reconstructed religions such as the Cultus Deorum Romanorum, Hellenic polytheism, Slavic neopaganism ( i. e. Slavianstvo, including Rodnovery ), Celtic Reconstructionist Paganism, or Germanic religious reconstructionism, as well as modern eclectic traditions such as Discordianism, Wicca and its many offshoots.

Contemporary charity is regarded as a continuation of the Biblical Maaser Ani, or poor-tithe, as well as Biblical practices, such as permitting the poor to glean the corners of a field and harvest during the Shmita ( Sabbatical year ).

Contemporary debates have centered on issues such as secularization, civil religion, and the cohesiveness of religion in the context of globalization and multiculturalism.

Contemporary ideas from systems theory have grown with diversified areas, exemplified by the work of biologist Ludwig von Bertalanffy, linguist Béla H. Bánáthy, ecological systems with Howard T. Odum, Eugene Odum and Fritjof Capra, organizational theory and management with individuals such as Peter Senge, interdisciplinary study with areas like Human Resource Development from the work of Richard A. Swanson, and insights from educators such as Debora Hammond and Alfonso Montuori.

Contemporary books are more likely to be set with state-of-the-art seriffed " text romans " or " book romans " with design values echoing present-day design arts, which are closely based on traditional models such as those of Nicolas Jenson, Francesco Griffo ( a punchcutter who created the model for Aldine typefaces ), and Claude Garamond.