Lyrical, Modern, & Contemporary Dance... what's the difference? 

Amazing video! I couldn't understand the difference between lyrical, modern and contemporary before so it helped a lot.

Okay, so this is what I've gathered. Lyrical - inspired by ballet, looks similar to ballet but with different techniques Modern - someone said "fuck all these rules" and basically did the opposite of ballet. Everything is grounded, but it still has some similarities (i.e pointed toes) also, modern refers to an entire era of dance from the 1900s Contemporary - someone looked at basically every new style derived from modern and ballet and said "okay, mix them all up". from hip hop, jazz, latin and afro themes, modern and ballet

this is such a well done, lovely video! thank you!! ive been dancing 20 years, but was never clear on the distinction between modern and contemporary, but this cleared it up for me 100%! thanks for putting the time into this :)

thank you so much for this! i finally understand the difference between 3 styles i would have called the same a few months ago. this was very helpful:)

AMAZING your knowledge base!!!

This was excellent... thank you!

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This is great absolutely brilliant 💙

Thank you for this very informative video! I like listening to you. 💜

Thanks for your infomation solved my long term question of my mind.❤

This video was so helpful thank you!!! Here I was doing dancey stuff not even knowing how to refer to what style I was doing 💃🏼🤷🏼‍♀️🤦🏼‍♀️

Thank you so much for this. I was wondering why I've suddenly taken to lyrical dance recently. Now I understand the reason is due to my renewed interest in ballet, and lyrical dance has plenty of it.

I reaaaaally want to get into dance, and so I was so joyous to watch this video and learn a little bit of simple, useful differentiation. :) Thank you!😊

Thank you for the detailed information. I fell in love with the contemporary dance like crazy but they seem to have only modern in the school here :( Im heartbroken 💔

Thanks for the thorough descriptions, very helpful! Just wondering why you didn't use a few clips to visualize your remarks, that could enhance the video loads (I think)

Thank you!!!! You’re a trip 😂 You made me laugh, A LOT

I liked the way you explained these, I would have never understood the history behind them. I only knew them for the visual physical dances I saw when I looked up videos of different dances. Can you also do a video for Jazz? I am considering taking an adults beginners Jazz class and trying to decide between contemporary ballet or Jazz and which one I'd like but also feel comfortable doing with my body. I'm very shy and im worried if I do Jazz I might be uncomfortable doing it in front of other people but I think it might be what I naturally dance like at home on my own XD

This helped so much! I'd like to take up dance but had no idea what class to sign up to, thanks for your informative video!

Thank you for your video now I understand it better

Thank you so much, I need to give a presentation about modern dance and your explanation really helped me out a lot!! Just for future reference for myself, modern dance starts at @3:00

Thanks for that,,

Thank you explained so well. N yes helpful 💕💕💕💕🇮🇳🇮🇳

Great insight! I personally feel like contemporary is just the total opposite of lyrical,for lyrical you have like pointed toes etc(like you mentioned) but contemporary has like flexed foot and distorted body

Great video! Can you make a video about showdance and acrodance too?

Hi! Thank you for this comprehensive video. I'm curious to know if you could explain postmodern dance and where it fits into the timeline of different dance eras?

hiii! i'm 17 and i've been in musical theatre a *long time.* more recently i've discovered my love of dance from that sphere. i don't get to do it a lot with the schedule of theatre (only one class a week for a few months a semester and it's a youth theatre so not many complex dances which i'm very into are taught) so i'm looking into taking dance classes too. i'm not interested in street dancing but i'm also not interested in ballet. what would you recommend i look into?

Graham states she never took ballet and rebelled against it - was Ruth st Dennis and denis Shawn that took their inspiration from petroglyphs and art of Egypt her influence later was Japanese artist

modern = the hippie child of ballet, sold! now im learning modern, after being a competitive dancer as a teen. lol i need to reconnect with my inner child through dance!

Ballet can be done to a song. Graham is a contemporary technique along with Cunningham etc. A contemporary dancer trained in many techniques and normally they have a base in something like Cunningham, Graham, Horton, Limon etc. and I would say the boundaries of dance are pushed through the choreography. Contemporary choreography can look like and be anything. You may see a contemporary piece and feel like you're watching jazz or ballet, theatre or something so weird you don't know what you're watching. I feel the description of lyrical was pretty much what I would say, but the description of contemporary is a little lacking unitards, pushing and pulling angst Lol. Though me being a contemporary dancer I have always found it so difficult to describe contemporary and I feel it's even harder now the choreography is being influenced by techniques like hip hop etc. I feel this is even leaking into the training of the traditional techniques like Graham as teachers who teach are getting further and further away from the original source and start incorporating the dance styles of today that they train in, though I guess in some way this has probably always happened. I noticed that no release techniques were mentioned in this video and release techniques have been a base for many contemporary dancers in recent years. One thing I hate when looking for contemporary dance on RU-vid is that the results that come up are pretty much 95% lyrical. Lol. Babble over. Lol.

Thanks so much! I finally understand these difference I was trying to understand these to enroll my daughter to dance class. Each studio has thousands of classes. What would you recommend for a 8-year old who find ballet is boring ? Maybe a lyrical?

Thanx for explaining! I'd like to hear everyone's advice on the following: I'm looking for a contemporary dance class but the problem is there isn't a single dance school here that offers that style. They do offer Modern/Jazz or Classic/Modern/Jazz. But will I get the same amount of joy out of these combination classes or are the styles to different?

Similarites and differences in ballet,modern, jazz, lyrical

Very informative. Thank you. I’m wondering if you could offer some advice. My 13 yr old daughter has danced classical ballet since she was 3. She advanced to pointe but has developed a foot condition that will require surgery and makes pointe nearly impossible. She’s heartbroken and looking for a new genre to continue her passion for dance. So… what would be the best evolution for her? Lyrical? Modern? Contemporary?

Contemporary is a catch all hybrid of styles doesn’t have to go to the floor or be barefooted - lyrical is a mix of ballet and modern yes but now we have gymnastics and a more floor driven choreography these days but strip the extra extra and you have a strong base in ballet and classical styles of modern Horton is used to make GReAT ballerinas these days as well

I want to learn contemporary

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I'll take CONTEMPORARY for $500 Alex! 💁🏾‍♀️ It's more understood and invites culture.

Is it late for a 18 year old to start contemporary;

Yes amazing explanation! I know this is a year old but the term urban dance is no longer a term that is being used. The reason being is to respect the culture of hip hop and the black Afro/Latin/Caribbean communities from which it was originated.

Angst in contemporary?! What?! Girl, I don't know where you took classes, but here it can be anything. A lot of emphasis on emotions, whatver they may be. There is also a lot of experimentations, stuff we cannot do in any other type of dance. There is no special technique, it's basically the same as the other techinical types, like you still need to hold your core and have your feet and knees in alignement to not get injured. As experimental as it can be though, I don't think just rolling once and eating a sandwhich be considered dancing. That's like the dude who just put up a toilet in a museum and said it's art when he didn't do anything to it.

Is hip hop considered modern dance?

9:49 that was beautiful lmao

Thank you so much for this !