contemporary dance

Contemporary dance is a dance performance genre that developed during the mid twentieth century and has since grown to become one of the dominant genres for formally trained dancers throughout the world, with particularly strong popularity in the U.S. and Europe. Although originally informed by and borrowing from classical, modern, and jazz styles, it has since come to incorporate elements from many styles of dance. Due to its technical similarities, it is often perceived to be closely related to modern dance, ballet and other classical concert dance styles.

In terms of the focus of its technique, contemporary dance tends to combine the strong and controlled legwork of ballet with modern dance’s stress on the torso, and also employs contract-release, floor work, fall and recovery, and improvisation characteristic of modern dance. Unpredictable changes in rhythm, speed, and direction are often used, as well. It sometimes also incorporates elements of non-western dance cultures such as elements from African dance including bent knees, or movements from the Japanese contemporary dance Butoh.

23. April 2017

Suomi100

Finland in December 2017 celebrates the 100th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. On this occasion, throughout the year 2017, various events, concerts, exhibitions and other […]
23. April 2017

MIMO

Modular dance installation MIMO is a project that aims to – physically – communicate through new forms of contemporary dance and digital media. Installation wishes with […]
19. March 2017

Pure

PURE dance performance without the story, focusing on the rim of physicality. Two dancers ponukajte their body’s own presence to investigate the purity observed as a […]
19. March 2017

Investment deposit

Between the wind and the hurricane between drought and flood, the headless risk and ordinary fear is an opportunity to gain favorable interest rate of 2.4% […]
19. March 2017

Festival of Light and shadow 2016

2nd year of the event Festival of Light and shadow took place in Banská Bystrica and followed a positive feedback from the first year in 2015. […]
25. January 2016

Dust

In late May, viewers could experience the dance-theater performance with elements of digital projection PRA(C)H – DUST in English. The young choreographer and director Radoslav Piovarči […]
16. January 2016

Night wanderings across Batovce

Theatre Pôtoň prepared for Saturday, July 18, 2015 an extraordinary outdoor cultural program. Intention of project Nočné potulky Bátovcami / Night wanderings across Batovce was to […]
28. November 2015

The Last Anniversary show

Project Hopes and Memories after two years meets an accomplishment and comes to his final. The result of our intensive international cooperation is contemporary-ballet-opera performance The […]
28. November 2015

H&M Residence Budapest

TRAKT (Michaela Bottková) spent the second weekend of November in Budapest, Hungary, where she joined the ongoing dance workshop and a choreographic residency of the Hopes […]
28. November 2015

H&M Residence Durban

As part of an international project Hopes and Memories, in which TRAKT represents one of the five partner organizations, our visual team will be participate for […]
28. November 2015

Skyway

Lighting Up the Wonders of the Elements. In its third edition, SKYWAY ’11 draws the analogy between the richness of the experience that light based art delivers and […]
28. November 2015

Crossroad

That project is an initiative set up in the framework of European programme, Youth in Action. The aim is those 2 weeks project is to bring […]
28. November 2015

French Film Festival Trencin

French Film Festival – the biennial event is one of the results of the well-established friendship and partnership between the cities of Trencin and Cran-Gevrier since […]
28. November 2015

The level of movement

The exhibition project titled as The Level of Movement is a fluent continuation of the cycle of exhibitions presenting young artists under the auspices of the […]
27. November 2015

CementARTňa

Second year of the festival of art called cementÁrtňa will take place on 25th of June 2010, again in the former freight cement-station on Kostiviarska road […]