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Born in the early 20th century, modern dance is a dance style that focuses on a dancer's own interpretations instead of structured steps, as in traditional ballet dancing. -
Merce Cunningham
Merce Cunningham is a student of Martha Graham. After being a main dancer in her company for several years, he starts an independent career as a choreographer in 1942. -
s starts a series of concerts and tours
Since 1943, Mercies starts a series of concerts and tours with the purpose of exposing his new ideas concerning dance. -
Contemporary Dance
So, there’s a contemporary dance history before the 1950s: that one of ballet and modern dance, which somehow serves society to make emerge contemporary dance. -
Black Mountain Colle
In 1953, Mercie creates a group in the Black Mountain Colle that allows him to develop a method full of new artistic postulates. He innovates from almost all of the possible perspectives: choreographic, compositional, technical-interpretative, musical, philosophical and others.