• Any form of dance that is performed primarily for an audience. • Often performed in a theatre or other public venue Usually choreographed to set music. and often have elaborate costumes, props, lighting, setting and scenery..
As Laban says, 'dancing does not always demand spectators' – it is the movement of life itself.
This is in contrast to theatre, which is in essence defined as a relationship between performer and spectator.
Dancing does not always demand spectators Theatre is a relationship between performer and spectator..
The German Tanztheater ("dance theatre") grew out of German Expressionist dance in Weimar Germany and 1920s Vienna.
The term first appears around 1927 to identify a particular style of dance emerging from within the new forms of 'expressionist dance' developing in Central Europe since 1917..
Dance theater is a dance-based art form in which a world is created through physical and psychological interactions on stage.
Roland Langer (1984) exemplifies the elements as drawing on “dance, speaking, singing, conventional theater, and the use of props, set and costumes in one amalgam..
Mr.
Garland is currently the Dance Theatre of Harlem Artistic Director..
In 1969, at the height of the civil rights movement, Arthur Mitchell and Karel Shook founded Dance Theatre of Harlem..
