Contemporary Ballet Study Guide

1. How do you know that one video is Classical ballet and one is Contemporary ballet?

From my understanding, I think the presentation was not just choreography. But the dancer to describe the story of the show. Presentation of the choreography, costumes, music and the display device it just not a technique.

2. Site several examples describing the intentional dynamic shift in the dancer's center of gravity toward being off balance and/or the struggle to keep a vertical balance.

The word and the times have changed and growing steadily make everything has evolved to adapt to the modern era. Thus, it includes a ballet dancer as well not only practiced the choreography. But more needs to be updated to the ballet remains an interesting and decays. From modern dance, Jazz, R & B or

How has the male-female partnership changed?

Both video did presentation of the choreography ballet together men and women.

There was a collaboration between male and female dancers making dance or show a significant increase. Partnering has become less conventional, utilizing alternate supports in a variety of body orientations (upside down, sideways), with variety also in the energy between the partners which can range from aggressive to sterile.

4. How are these two video examples representative of their respective ballet eras?

There are these two video examples representative of their respective ballet eras are twenty. A presentation of dance, Contemporary Ballet. The show still had basics skill and the traditional dances are also included. These two video still have basics move like classical ballet. The dancer begins in a Classical Ballet 5th position of the feet, but her arms, instead of a soft, rounded shape, are dangling limply at her side like we studied in this chapter;

The shifting of the hip side ward is one of the first big signs that this ballet is contemporary.

Notice the incredible control and strength the dancer possesses to rise onto the point of the