This lecture is devoted to the rise of postmodern American dance, which came about in the second half of the 20th century.
Tired of the constraints of modern dance, a group of students from Robert Ellis Dunn’s experimental composition class decided to look for an alternative way of expressing their emotions through movement; in the end, they invented what came to be known as postmodern dance. In postmodern dance, every movement was dance and every person a dancer. In her lecture, Vita Khlopova will speak about the key representatives of the movement and show some of their seminal works.