Talk:Contemporary ballet

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[edit] Cleanup

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)

[edit] Expansion

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)

It would be useful to explain if there is a relationship of contempoary ballet to contemporary dance. Maybe as a see also. Paul foord 10:03, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Merge with main ballet article

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)

  • Oppose
    • Hm... Slhogan, I think maybe a link to this article from the main ballet article might be in order, but I'm not sure of an actual merge. In my head, contemporary ballet warrants an article of its own, as in recent years it's really become a separate entity from "ballet ballet." I'd love to hear the opinions of others, though (I haven't been around in an extremely long while!). Thanks! Emmegan 23:17, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
    • A summary of this article there would be good but this stands alone and is a useful link to contemporary dance Paul foord 13:18, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
    • I disagree... Contemporary is an important part of dance today and needs its own article. It is quite different to ballet —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.161.75.248 (talk) 06:34, 9 February 2008 (UTC)
  • Agree
    • Being a dancer myself, i can inform you that contemporary dace is derived from a combination modern dance and ballet. Being one part ballet, it should be merged with the ballet article. I'm not saying anyone's wrong, though. Make no mistake, contemporary dance is very much it's own style. But without ballet, there would be no backbone for the technique of contemporary dance. Take Alvin Ailey's Dance Company, for example. They have many different styles of dancing, but most of them are formulated with ballet. Watching them perform, an expeirienced ballerina like myself and even an inexperienced one can point out specific movements that are strictly ballet. Thank you for reviewing my input!
P-nut-buh-tuh 21:46, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

Not merged open discussion since March 2007, balance is against merger. Removed tag. Paul foord (talk) 06:52, 9 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Removed tag to merge with neoclassical ballet - no rationale presented

Paul foord (talk) 06:59, 9 February 2008 (UTC)