Concert dance

Stage dance ( dance on stage ) is next to straight theater and musical theater, the third classic form of theater. This refers to all types of dance that are listed on the theater stage, both dance performances in opera, operetta and musicals, as well as independent feature-length choreographies.

History

The history of stage dance until the end of the 19th century, the history of classical ballet. With Isadora Duncan then was a movement against the rigid conventions of classical ballet. This idea of ​​"free dance " was another of Ruth St. Denis, Mary Wigman ( Dance) and Martha Graham (Modern Dance), picked up and further developed. After the Second World War and especially in the 1960s and 1970s a variety of new choreographic styles and dance techniques, such as dance theater ( Pina Bausch ), Butoh and neoclassical ballet (Uwe Scholz ) was born. The latest styles and trends of stage dance are summarized under the term contemporary dance.

Demarcation

In contrast to stage dance performance ( art ) developed the urban space as a stage. The dance opera referred dominated by dance works ( Heike Hennig ) and productions in the border area to the opera or musical theater.

Professional organizations

The professional dancer at the theaters in Germany describe themselves as a stage dancer and from the cooperative German Stage Workers ( GDBA ) represented a union. Much larger is the number of free stage dancers, who are loosely organized in associations such as the Society for Contemporary Dance NRW or the Bavarian Association for Contemporary Dance.