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I think this article is highly problematic because "Contemporary Ballet" is at best an ill-defined marketing term. The complete lack of citations is a symptom of this problem. This article lacks any objective basis for the terms it sets out to use or define.
A good article on the subject would probably need to rely on the works of various dance scholars. I have not collected such works in front of me at this point. But... I think that the resulting article would be (factually) very different from what we have here. Some major problems of fact I see in this article:
Some of this stuff is explained in: http://www.amazon.com/Ballet-101-Complete-Learning-Loving/dp/0786881550
In general, most (almost all) of what people call "contemporary ballet" these days, as far as I can tell, is just ballet. Sure, maybe they didn't use an fairy tale story line --- but is that enough of a difference to create an entire new artistic sub-genre? Every artist is different. To define "ballet ballet" as only ballets that look like they were made by Maurius Petipa --- that seems rather narrow to me, as well well as being incredibly subjective. We need (and we have) objective standards for what "classical ballet" means (as explained above).
So... I would suggest that:
This article needs a great amount of cleanup and expansion. However, I have never formally studied modern ballet and have no sources. If anyone could clean this up to adhere with encyclopedic tone, source it, add images, and expand it, it would be greatly improved and also appreciated. -- Keitei ( talk) 18:43, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
Hi, everyone (especially Keitei and E@L) -- I've just renamed the article (from "modern ballet" to "contemporary ballet"), expanded it, cleaned it up, and added the image of the ridiculously beautiful Drew Jacoby. I'll be adding more soon, as more information comes in! Thanks to all, Emmegan 02:31, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
"Contemporary dance" is a kind of dance that evolved after modern dance, late in the 20th century. It is not the same as "contemporary ballet."
Hello! I'd like to merge this article with the main ballet article. I plan to do so unless I hear otherwise. Slhogan94 19:12, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
Not merged open discussion since March 2007, balance is against merger. Removed tag. Paul foord ( talk) 06:52, 9 February 2008 (UTC)
Paul foord ( talk) 06:59, 9 February 2008 (UTC)
Added editing banners to two subsections that need more inline citations. -- SpiritedMichelle ( talk) 02:04, 29 November 2019 (UTC)
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I think this article is highly problematic because "Contemporary Ballet" is at best an ill-defined marketing term. The complete lack of citations is a symptom of this problem. This article lacks any objective basis for the terms it sets out to use or define.
A good article on the subject would probably need to rely on the works of various dance scholars. I have not collected such works in front of me at this point. But... I think that the resulting article would be (factually) very different from what we have here. Some major problems of fact I see in this article:
Some of this stuff is explained in: http://www.amazon.com/Ballet-101-Complete-Learning-Loving/dp/0786881550
In general, most (almost all) of what people call "contemporary ballet" these days, as far as I can tell, is just ballet. Sure, maybe they didn't use an fairy tale story line --- but is that enough of a difference to create an entire new artistic sub-genre? Every artist is different. To define "ballet ballet" as only ballets that look like they were made by Maurius Petipa --- that seems rather narrow to me, as well well as being incredibly subjective. We need (and we have) objective standards for what "classical ballet" means (as explained above).
So... I would suggest that:
This article needs a great amount of cleanup and expansion. However, I have never formally studied modern ballet and have no sources. If anyone could clean this up to adhere with encyclopedic tone, source it, add images, and expand it, it would be greatly improved and also appreciated. -- Keitei ( talk) 18:43, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
Hi, everyone (especially Keitei and E@L) -- I've just renamed the article (from "modern ballet" to "contemporary ballet"), expanded it, cleaned it up, and added the image of the ridiculously beautiful Drew Jacoby. I'll be adding more soon, as more information comes in! Thanks to all, Emmegan 02:31, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
"Contemporary dance" is a kind of dance that evolved after modern dance, late in the 20th century. It is not the same as "contemporary ballet."
Hello! I'd like to merge this article with the main ballet article. I plan to do so unless I hear otherwise. Slhogan94 19:12, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
Not merged open discussion since March 2007, balance is against merger. Removed tag. Paul foord ( talk) 06:52, 9 February 2008 (UTC)
Paul foord ( talk) 06:59, 9 February 2008 (UTC)
Added editing banners to two subsections that need more inline citations. -- SpiritedMichelle ( talk) 02:04, 29 November 2019 (UTC)