20th century concert dance is the name given to a category of dance forms that include:

• Free dance
• Modern dance
• Expressionist dance
• Postmodern dance
• Dance improvisation
• Contemporary dance
• Dance theatre
• Dance technology
• Dance for camera

Although technically 20th century concert dance, the following dance forms are considered under the separate category of Ballet or 20th century ballet :

• Modern ballet
• Neoclassical ballet
• Deconstructivist ballet / Post-structuralist ballet

lineage of dance forms

sketch showing lineage of 20th century concert dance ©-cc-by Ohka-

Relationship to art movements

Although sharing the name of art movements the dance forms may not relate to them directly. From an ideological and conceptual point of view the connections are shown below:

• Expressionism
  • Free dance
  • Modern dance
  • Expressionist dance
    • Ausdruckstanz
      • Tanztheater (dance theatre)
      • physical theatre

• Modernism
  • Postmodern dance
    • Dance improvisation
      • contact improvisation

• Postmodernism
  • Postmodern dance
    • Contemporary dance / new dance
    • Dance technology
    • Dance for camera

notes:

1. This list is given as an illustrative example and should not be used for re classification
2. Postmodern dance falls under two catergories due to its complex nature (see Postmodernism).
3. Choreographers using a postmodernist process may produce works that are classical, romantic, expressionist, modernist or postmodernist (etc) in appearance (see Postmodernism).

Related articles

• Concert dance
• List of dance style categories
• Dance

Further reading

• Adshead-Lansdale, J. (Ed) (1994) Dance History: An Introduction. Routledge. ISBN 041509030X
• Anderson, J. (1992) Ballet & Modern Dance: A Concise History. Independent Publishers Group. ISBN 0871271729
• Au, S. (2002) Ballet and Modern Dance (World of Art). Thames & Hudson. ISBN 0500203520
• Banes, S (1987) Terpsichore in Sneakers: Post-Modern Dance. Wesleyan University Press. ISBN 0819561606
• Banes, S (Ed) (1993) Greenwich Village 1963: Avant-Garde Performance and the Effervescent Body. Duke University Press. ISBN 082231391X
• Banes, S (Ed) (2003) Reinventing Dance in the 1960s: Everything Was Possible. University of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 029918014X
• Bremser, M. (Ed) (1999) Fifty Contemporary Choreographers. Routledge. ISBN 0415103649
• Carter, A. (1998) The Routledge Dance Studies Reader. Routledge. ISBN 0415164478
• Cohen, S, J. (1992) Dance As a Theatre Art: Source Readings in Dance History from 1581 to the Present. Princeton Book Co. ISBN 0871271737
• Copeland, R. (2004) Merce Cunningham: The Modernizing of Modern Dance. Routledge. ISBN 0415965756
• Daly, A. (2002) Critical Gestures: Writings on Dance and Culture. Wesleyan University Press. ISBN 0819565660
• Desmond, J, C. (Ed) (1997) Meaning in Motion: New Cultural Studies of Dance (Post-Contemporary Interventions). Duke University Press. ISBN 082231942X
• Dils, A. (2001) Moving History/Dancing Cultures: A Dance History Reader. Wesleyan University Press. ISBN 0819564133
• Ihde, DD. (2003) Bodies in Technology. University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 0816638462
• Jowitt, D. (1989) Time and the Dancing Image. University of California Press. ISBN 0520066278
• Novack, C, J. (1990) Sharing the Dance: Contact Improvisation and American Culture. University of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 0299124444
• Reynolds, N. and McCormick, M. (2003) No Fixed Points: Dance in the Twentieth Century. Yale University Press. ISBN 0300093667
• Thomas, H. (2003) The Body, Dance and Cultural Theory. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 0333724321