Music used for Lyrical dance is usually emotionally charged and expressive and give dancers a chance to express a range of strong emotions through their dancing. The term Lyrical Dance comes from the word “lyrical,” which means to have a poetic, expressive quality expressing spontaneous feelings and deep personal emotions. In Lyrical dance the upper body movements resemble traditional African dance forms. Music for this style may consist of many genres including pop, rock, and hip- hop. The Lyrical style has a relatively recent history and brings together ballet with rock/folk/pop/alternative music and a variety of jazz and modern dance styles. To understand what Lyrical dance is, we need to understand some of the lyrical background and why dancers choose to use Lyrical dance. It does not concentrate on the dancer’s precision of movement. This style concentrates on an individual approach and expressiveness of such emotions as love, joy, hurt, or anger. ![]() It is performed to music with lyrics so that it inspires expression of strong emotions the choreographer feels from the lyrics of the song. Lyrical dance is a style that combines ballet and jazz dancing techniques. I've not heard of concert contemporary as such but I do wonder if it is referring to a more 'popular' generic style aimed at theatre audiences, rather than class based technique-based dance.What is Lyrical Dance, and What is the Meaning Behind it? That is obviously quite different to the more stylistics techniques of Bob Fosse, Luigi etc and very different to commercial jazz also. ![]() I believe our 'modern dance theatre jazz' is linked to the styles that became popular as jazz began to appear in films and theatres and as people wanted to be taught in classes. ![]() Again, there is a huge variety in styles of jazz. Jazz has its origins in Africa and the slaves that went over to America and kept their dance traditions going. Contemporary is quite a generic term though and there are many different styles within contemporary but students are generally taught the techniques of Graham, Cunningham, Limon etc to get them started on their individual contemporary styles. No rules, danced to music or without, movements ranging considerably and taking bits and adapting them from ballet, jazz etc. ![]() Lyrical was described to me as being a fusion of ballet and jazz as it includes elements of both, but is above all expressive - showing emotion through dance and hence songs are often used as the lyrics and dance steps go together to create an expressive dance.Ĭontemporary dance to me is how the poster US friend above described it. I don't know if that is what 'lyrical' means in the UK though.īy now I think definitions are super confusing!!! Edited by DancingtoDance According to her answer (not word-for-word), and also what I had in mind 'lyrical' means based on the lyrics of a song or it can be spoken words, but the difference between that and contemporary is that in lyrical dance it is literally reflecting the words. That explanation was also what I had in mind when thinking about 'contemporary' dance. She also said that the term contemporary dance is often misused in recital and competition schools. Well actually as I wasn't getting many answers here at first, I asked this, and I had also asked similar question about what style a dance was which turned out to be contemporary, somewhere else and someone (a former professional ballet dancer from the US so this would be the US explanation) said contemporary dance has no rules, can be danced to music, noise, silence or spoken words, can be emotional or completely devoid of all emotion and just be line and movement, and that the technique used for contemporary dance is rooted in both ballet and codified modern dance technique but movements can range from very balletic to simple and pedestrian (the explanation is hers except I took out some words like 'it', but it is her explanation).
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