These dancers trained in the second generation modern dance schools where they realized the thematic feature of modern dance was limiting. So they instead opted to create abstract dance movements which employed contact improvisation, pedestrian, improvisation, accumulation, retrograde, chance and determinacy and game structure techniques. For example, Steve Paxton one of the pioneers of the postmodern dance movement extensively explored contact improvisation to create movement. The Postmodern dance movement, lasted for a decade and the new choreographers and dancers that came after, brought with them new ideas and innovations. The non restrictive and never-ending evolution of American dance is what defines it. Dance in the United States continues to be a medium for self-expression ranging from personal stories to political and social issues. This together with the manifestations of both European and African aesthetic make up American
These dancers trained in the second generation modern dance schools where they realized the thematic feature of modern dance was limiting. So they instead opted to create abstract dance movements which employed contact improvisation, pedestrian, improvisation, accumulation, retrograde, chance and determinacy and game structure techniques. For example, Steve Paxton one of the pioneers of the postmodern dance movement extensively explored contact improvisation to create movement. The Postmodern dance movement, lasted for a decade and the new choreographers and dancers that came after, brought with them new ideas and innovations. The non restrictive and never-ending evolution of American dance is what defines it. Dance in the United States continues to be a medium for self-expression ranging from personal stories to political and social issues. This together with the manifestations of both European and African aesthetic make up American