When I saw some video clips about Korean creative dance and Korean modern dance, it seemed difficult to distinguish one another. ... This is because some Korean dancers choreographed new dances based on Korean traditional dance and blended movements from western dances and other dancers who were educated from foreign countries adapted Korean traditional dance to western dances. ... If a foreign dancer is adept at Korean dancing, he or she can be a Human Cultural Asset. Koreans can learn from foreign dancers because Korean dancers were directly involved in Korean dances and thus could have c...

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Histories of Dance. ... I believe this as dance always changes. ... An example of what I mean is that today there is a large influence on contemporary dance; dancers are trained in a wide range of different dance techniques. ... Dancing of today is provoked both by feeling and being traditional. ... The company has attempted to retell these stories by applying modern-day logic, but without losing the essence of magic which is essential to these pieces. ...

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Merce Cunningham is a choreographer, dancer, company director, and video/filmaker of modern dance. As a result of his varied education and love for dance, he was able to create a type of modern dance that many people have accepted. ... The best way to describe Merce Cunningham's dance is, just as modern is an alternative to ballet, his dance is an alternative to traditional modern. He was once called "a revolutionary, an innovator and perhaps, the antithesis of traditional modern dance". ... Over the years, Merce Cunningham has developed his own unique s...

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The structure of the dance was organized with a duet of two dancers from beginning to end. ... All female dancers are dressed identically. ... With that being said, Serenade played a major role within Modern Dance as the woman was seen as a rising figure and the centerpiece of a narrative. ... Ballet helped signify the overall portray of women within Modern Dance. ... With that said, women were the key component in ballet, and therefore, were illustrated as much more significant figures in Modern Dance. ...

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She's an M.F.A. recipient from New York University, in Dance. ... These together were presented as "Dances for the Holiday Spirit." ... The movement was more modern with little to no use of any contemporary ballet technique. ... The dancers themselves were somehow pre-occupied with something, and this only added to diminishing the poor choreography. ... The dancers were trying their best to make use of the horrid choreography they had been given. ...

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