modern dance

American  

noun

1. a form of contemporary theatrical and concert dance employing a special technique for developing the use of the entire body in movements expressive of abstract ideas.

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modern dance British  

noun

1. a style of free and expressive theatrical dancing not bound by the classical rules of ballet

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Etymology

Origin of modern dance

First recorded in 1910–15

Example Sentences

The phenomenon presents a very modern challenge - how can singers create the next hit tune when the one people actually listen to might sound so different?

From BBC • Aug. 17, 2024

Cable’s other Nxivm series, HBO’s “The Vow,” illustrates a more modern challenge for documentarians: footage abundance, not scarcity.

From New York Times • Apr. 9, 2021

A modern challenge is the ubiquity, and the necessity: gone are the days when recovering behavioural addicts can be told to avoid the ever-necessary internet, for example.

From The Guardian • Jan. 9, 2019

The modern challenge to infant baptism stems from several different arguments.

From Time Magazine Archive

We are conscious of the towering modern challenge that is called specialism or cut-throat competition—Business.

From What's Wrong with the World by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)