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title: Contemporary Dance
description: Contemporary Dance is an expressive genre that combines elements of modern, jazz, lyrical, and classical ballet. Learners will understand floor work, gravity release, spatial awareness, and improvisation techniques to develop fluid, expressive movement and personal artistic style.
category: music-audio
subcategory: dance
difficulty: beginner, intermediate, advanced
url: /subject/contemporary-dance
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# Contemporary Dance

Contemporary Dance is an expressive genre that combines elements of modern, jazz, lyrical, and classical ballet. Learners will understand floor work, gravity release, spatial awareness, and improvisation techniques to develop fluid, expressive movement and personal artistic style.

## Available Resources

1 Courses • 3 Websites

## Websites

### 1. PBT (Progressive Ballet Technique)

Conditioning method for dancers, delivered through a membership library of on-demand exercise videos plus teacher certification. Its drills build core strength, alignment and weight placement, helping dancers develop the muscle control, balance and injury resilience that ballet and contemporary technique demand.

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://www.pbt.dance/

**Tags:** dance-conditioning, ballet-technique, contemporary-dance, core-strength, injury-prevention

### 2. dancemagazine.com

Dance Magazine is a premier dance publication featuring news, performance coverage, and in-depth articles, including practical technique tips and training guidance. The site offers tutorials, warmups, exercises, interviews, and videos across ballet, contemporary, and other styles to help dancers develop core fundamentals and artistry.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://dancemagazine.com

**Tags:** websites, arts-design, creative-arts

### 3. contemporary-dance.org

A resource hub for learning contemporary dance. It features technique tutorials, movement vocabulary, and choreographic ideas, plus articles and video demonstrations on practice, history, and performance.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://contemporary-dance.org

**Tags:** websites, music-performing-arts, dance

## Courses

### 1. iDance.net Online Lessons

Learn ballroom dancing online with iDance.net! Access lessons from various instructors and dance your way to confidence.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://www.idance.net/

**Tags:** ballroom-dance, latin-dance, swing-dance, partner-dancing

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