Internet Research, Contemporary Dance History

The website Contemporary dance history, available at URL: http://www.contemporary-dance.org/contemporary-dance-history.html (Accessed on 26/04/15) pin points influential moments within dance history and shows the importance of the practitioners ideas, style and choreographic works on our society.

'We could say that both ballet and modern dance are ancestors of contemporary dance. Ballet creates the general concert dance frame work and technical knowledge used or refused by contemporary dance. Modern dance is at the same time its ‘anti-reference’ and kind of ‘mother in law’.

So, there’s a contemporary dance history before the 1950s: that one of ballet and modern dance, which somehow serves society to make emerge contemporary dance.' 

                                                                                    Directly quoted from the website. 

This website talked about Merce Cunningham. Cunningham used chance as a method of creating choreography and he always uses music that has no direct relationship to the movement. Therefore I am interested in creating a session around Cunningham's ideas of creating movement separate to the music. Afterwards I will analyse it and compare it to structure ballet choreography and repertoire.  

Available at URL: http://corp.lastlookapp.com/posts/legendary-collaboration-merce-cunningham-rei-kawakubo/ (Accessed on 26/04/15)

Merce Cunningham and John Cage talking about chance as a method of choreography, found on Youtube, 26/04/15

'Cunningham developed “choreography by chance,” a technique in which selected isolated movements are assigned sequence by such random methods as tossing a coin.' 

Available at URL: http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/146610/Merce-Cunningham (Accessed on 26/0415)