What is the difference between contemporary dance and modern dance?

The main differences are, different nature, different point of view, different attributes, as follows:

I. Different Nature

1. Contemporary Dance

Mainly refers to the widely absorbed but unconventional use of traditional Chinese dance materials and foreign art materials for creation and performance.

2. Modern Dance

Emphasizes that the art of dance should reflect modern social life.

2. Differences in viewpoints

1. Contemporary Dance

The work pursues distinctive artistic images and rich national aesthetic interests, reflecting China's contemporary hot social life and epochal spirituality.

2. Modern Dance

The main aesthetic point of view is to oppose the formalist tendency of classical ballet to stick to the old ways, detach from the real life and purely pursue skills.

Three, different attributes

1, contemporary dance

The attributes of contemporary dance are more contemporary and timely, more traditional and current reality of the relationship between the traditional and the more traditional sense of immediacy, more in line with the entertainment needs of most people. It is fashionable, mainstream and popular, and it also accumulates the cultural nature of China's era of change. It seeks to "improve" but not to subvert in its ideology and artistic style. It does not have the so-called "unique artistry" of art systematization, nor does it pay attention to the so-called "originality", but rather, it is brought and processed, and given new styles to be created and absorbed.

2, modern dance

Modern dance has the attributes of the essence of art, more personalized expression of the artist, that is, the technical way of thought and art. To achieve the systematic and extreme simplicity of artwork phase, the pursuit of uniqueness, pioneering avant-garde. Although concerned with all issues of the present, social nature, but not with the mainstream. Such a nature is often naturally not accepted and understood by the public, and such an artist is brave, lonely and willing to be lonely. Its real value, in addition to the value of the unique artistry itself, may be the channel of enlightenment and experience of the later people, it is a later time under the "current trend".

Baidu Encyclopedia-Contemporary Dance

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