Post Modern Dance begun during the 1960s, postmodern dance hailed the use of everyday movement as valid performance art and advocated novel methods of dance composition. A dance company called Judson Dance Theatre are an example who worked with Post Modern Dance. Judson Dance Theater was an informal group of dancers who performed at the Judson Memorial Church in Greenwich Village, Manhattan New York City between 1962 and 1964. It grew out of a dance composition class taught by Robert Dunn, a musician. The artists involved were avant garde experimentalists who rejected the confines of Modern dance practice and theory, inventing as they did the precepts of Postmodern dance.They performed at various places, and most not necessarily on stage, they believed dance could happen anywhere and they had non traditionalist audiences.
The Judson Dance Theatre took on dancers of all shapes, sizes, ethnicity etc. (Unlike, for example, ballet where they prefer a certain look with their dancer) some of which were not even professionally trained.
Post modern dance takes everything ballet is about, aesthetic dancers, technical choreography etc. It uses common movements that average people would perform in everyday life and turns it into a creative dance idea.
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