Modern dance, from head to toe.(Features)(Arts & Leisure)(Dance)

From: The Christian Science Monitor | Date: August 25, 2000 | Copyright information

Modern dance" is a vague and nondescript term for one of the richest and most diverse of the performing arts. Little more than 100 years old, it ranges from the gaudily theatrical scarf dances of Loie Fuller at the dawn of the 20th century to the intensely stylized mythologies of modern-dance genius Martha Graham to the high-flying virtuosic acrobatics of Elizabeth Streb.

Unlike classical ballet, with its strict vocabulary of movements, modern dance is eclectic and marvelously diverse - accessible, appealing, and resonant to people in all walks of life. "Dance is another way ...

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