What happens when you add a touch of technique that follows no rules except those dictated by the dancer's inner voice? What emerges when you add a few unspoken words and unexpressed emotions to this? The result is a dance without ideals, standards, scripts, or rules. A dance that carries profound meaning, like electricity flowing from one's own body – this is contemporary dance.
Contemporary dance emerged relatively recently in the West, in the 1960s, and appeared in the post-Soviet space in the 1980s. It embodies the emotional richness of the dancer, offering a new sense of the world, helping to express where words hinder meaning. This dance plays with symbolic undertones and hidden meanings...
Contemporary dance is characterized by extreme psychological depth and profound wisdom. The dance technique can be divided into internal and external, psychological and physical. Since the dance's peculiarity lies in using techniques for working with consciousness, which involve awareness of one's own body (body awareness), harnessing inner strength, the performer listens to their body's voice, learns to understand and accept oneself.
Great attention in dance is paid to classical body alignment, sharp changes between contraction and release, falls and lifts, stops, balancing, tension, and relaxation (techniques of William Forsythe, José Limón, Susan Klein, Merce Cunningham, flying low – David Zambrano's technique of working with and above the floor, and others). All movements in dance are maximally natural, take into account the possibilities, and are aimed at unfolding the potential of the dancer's consciousness and body.
Contemporary dance is unique, even when performed by a group of dancers. It transforms time and space, possesses speed, strength, and energy. It offers qualitatively new psychological, physical, and spiritual sensations, becoming a unit of measurement for love and respect for one's own 'self'. By performing contemporary dance, you will feel an influx of strength and the lightness of life that Eastern wisdom provides.