modern dance

a form of dance as a performing art, variously developed in the 20th cent. by Isadora Duncan, Ruth St. Denis, Martha Graham, etc., and characterized by bodily movements and rhythms less formalized than in classical ballet and less firmly bound to predetermined musical form

See modern dance in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun
A style of theatrical dance that rejects the limitations of classical ballet and favors movement deriving from the expression of inner feeling.

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