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Contemporary dance is a style of expressive dance that combines elements of several dance genres including modern, jazz, lyrical and classical ballet. Contemporary dancers strive to connect the mind and the body through fluid dance movements.

Contemporary dance stresses versatility and improvisation, unlike the strict, structured nature of ballet. Contemporary dancers focus on floorwork, using gravity to pull them down to the floor. This dance genre is often done in bare feet. Contemporary dance can be performed to many different styles of music. Dance can be conceived as a new way of thinking about dance today, a form of expression through movement that processes memory, experience and imagination.

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History of contemporary dance in Philippines

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History of contemporary dance in Philippines

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Rising from the rubbles of WW II and freed from American domination, the Filipinos surged  in creativity. The ’50 and ’60s saw dance revival and choreographic invention.

Schools put up folk dance troupes like the Far Eastern University, Philippine Normal University (Barangay Folk Dance Troupe) and Philippine Women’s University.

In ballet, Orosa Goquingco went to stage Noli Dance Suit and other ballets. Remedios de Oteyza’s abstract ballets were performed by the De Oteyza Ballet, Manila Ballet Company and Hariraya Ballet Company (founded with Inday Gaston Manosa).

They all inspired a new group of dance-makers and leaders. Corazon Generoso Iñigo staged folk dances and choreographed modern pieces for university groups, for the films and the productions of J. Amado Araneta in Cubao, Quezon City. Maribel Aboitiz and Eddie Elejar followed up the fame of Manolo Rosado and Fely Franquelli in Europe. With Joji Felix and Cesar Mendoza, Elejar set up a school at PWU. He and Julie Borromeo and Felicitas “Tita” Layag Radaic later formed Dance Theater Philippines as the first professional company, along with the Hariraya.

In the idiom of jazz, Douglas Nierras and his Powerdance are the most prominent, following the groups Hotlegs, of Julie Borromeo, Metropolitan Dance Theater, etc. The new groups are Whiplash and several others dancing for television.

In dance education, physical education departments continue to teach dance (mostly folk) from the grade school  to college level.

During the leisure time Filipinos can be found dancing more. This include the battalas (choreographed skirmishes) in the moro-moro or comedia that still exist, and in many festivals around the country like thesinulog, ati-atihan, caracol, guling-guling, dinagyang, sayaw sa Obando, turumba in Pakil, etc. These may be found on the streets, the stage or the shopping malls today.

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The Old and new dance forms are the boogie-woogie, rock ‘n roll, mashed potato, twist, boogaloo, bossa nova, frug, pachanga, watusi, hustle, lambada, swing, hip-hop and the free-for-all disco-dancing.

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Video clip of contemporary dance in Philippines 

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Video clip of contemporary dance in Philippines 

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BEST CONTEMPORARY DANCE IN THE PHILIPPINES EVER! XD ..