Isadora duncan (1877- 1927), the founder of modern dance and a famous American dancer, is one of the pioneers who raised deductive dance to the status of creative art. On the stage of expressing life art, Duncan showed his unique artistic style with unrestrained love and strong maternal love.

1877 was born in San Francisco on May 26th, and 1927 died in Nice, France on September 4th. My mother is a music teacher. She received a good music education from an early age and cultivated her interest in dance. Duncan was able to teach her friends to dance when she was 6 years old. She showed disgust at the rigid classical ballet. She is determined to base her dance on natural rhythm and movements to explain and perform musicians' works. She disdains dancing low-level commercial dances for a living. At the age of 2 1, she was forced to go to Britain to make a living and devote herself to studying ancient Greek art in the British Museum. She found her ideal dance expression from ancient sculptures and paintings: dressed in robes and barefoot, like swaying trees or billowing waves. Inspired by classical music, she pursues the dance that "the human spirit can be displayed sacredly through human body movements". She believes that skills will defile the natural beauty of the human body, actions come from self-feeling, and dance should show life from beginning to end. So her performance in London made the audience feel refreshed. Like the goddess of the forest, the image of her dancing barefoot in a tulle blouse is welcomed by people all over Europe. Duncan visited Russia several times in 1904, 1905, 19 13. Her performance had a great influence on choreographer M.M. Fujin and later ballets russes manager C.п.. Dia Gilev who shocked the Russian art world.

Modern dance (English: Modern Dance) is a dance school that rose in the west in the early 20th century, as opposed to classical ballet. Its main aesthetic point of view is to oppose the formalism tendency of classical ballet, which is conformist, divorced from real life and simply pursuing skills. It advocates getting rid of the rigid movement procedure of classical ballet, freely expressing people's true feelings with dance movements that conform to the laws of natural movement, and emphasizes that dance art should reflect modern social life. A Brief History of Western Ballet and Modern Dance, Xiamen University Press, 2009.438+00)

Korean dance (mostly accompanied by Korean singers), jazz dance, street dance, MTV dance, etc. Generally, it is not modern dance. Although it can be combined with modern dance to produce a unique style, even so, a dance with a strong entertainment tendency will not be modern dance. At the same time, modern dance generally has its creative motives, such as thinking about certain themes, exploring aesthetic concepts and describing stories. , and generally will not become an accessory of a certain music or song.

At present, well-known modern dance companies in China include Yunmen Dance Collection (Taiwan Province Province), Urban Contemporary Dance Company (Hongkong), Guangdong Modern Dance Company, Beijing Modern Dance Company, Shanghai Jinxing Dance Company, Beijing Dong Lei Tianxia Modern Dance Company, etc. Beijing Contemporary Ballet has created many modern dance works with unique styles.