Please watch the two videos below, both videos feature choreography by Hofesh Shechter whose work fails into the category of contemporary dance a subset of modern dance .
A short background on Shechter , he started his career as a dancer with the Batsheva Dance company in Israel at the same time, Shechter was pursuing his interest in percussion and music .he later moved to Paris, where he studied music in 2002, he moved to London to perform with the Jasmin Vardimon Company, and in 2003 he created his first dance work , Fragments, for which he also Composed the music.
Please watch the following videos and use this discussion board to identify and describe the elements (similar or contrasting ) that you see that helps classify each work as an example of contemporary dance. comment on Shechter’s use of the choreographic elements of dance discussed in your text. then describe why you think this dance would be considered modern dance and contemporary. Describe in detail what movements and ideas helped you form your opinion.
The first video is ” The Other Seder ” from 2010.
The second video is an excerpt from ”Political Mother ” from 2015.