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Modern Dance

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Noun

1. modern dance

a style of theatrical dancing that is not as restricted as classical ballet; movements are expressive of feelings

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Modern Dance

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noun
a style of free and expressive theatrical dancing not bound by the classical rules of ballet

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Modern Dance

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a form of dance as a performing art, variously developed in the 20th cent. by Isadora Duncan, Ruth St. Denis, Martha Graham, etc., and characterized by bodily movements and rhythms less formalized than in classical ballet and less firmly bound to predetermined musical form

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Modern Dance

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n.
An expressive style of dance developed in early 1900s as a reaction to the formality of ballet.

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