This article interrogates the multivalent understandings of the term “contemporary dance” in concert, commercial, and world dance contexts. I argue that placing multiple uses of the term “contemporary” alongside one another can provide insight into the ways that “high art” dance, popular dance, and non-Western dance are increasingly wrapped up with each other and, at the same time, the ways that their separations reveal our artistic, cultural, and political prejudices, as well as the forces of the market.

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现代舞什么时候播出？

本文探讨了在音乐会、商业和世界舞蹈背景下对“当代舞蹈”一词的多价理解。我认为，将“当代”一词的多种用法并排放置可以让我们深入了解“高艺术”舞蹈、流行舞蹈和非西方舞蹈越来越相互融合的方式，同时，它们的分离揭示了我们的艺术、文化和政治偏见以及市场力量的方式。