Whats the difference between jazz and modern dance?
Some studios tend to call all types of dance some pretty arbitrary names depending on what I have no clue. In the real world of dance, Jazz and Modern are 2 completely different things. Modern, if it is true modern, is a lot closer to ballet in technique but with some disregard for some of the rules. Everything is grounded. The main types of Modern are Graham, Horton, Limon , Cunningham & Dunham. If you ask what type of modern they do and they don’t say any of those or something like Alvin Ailey or Paul Taylor, you would be doing something more along the line of Contemporary or what some studios call Lyrical dance. There is a blending of styles in Contemporary dance. It can be almost anything. There are no rules about any of it. It can be anything that is a mix of ballet, street, modern, jazz even common pedestrian movements. Contemporary can be anything. Jazz is more structured and relies mostly on the type of music used. It is closely related to theater dance. There are jazz pirouett
