Question about Dance

[lydy]

So, recently a friend showed me this video.  It is Vienna Teng's "Level Up".  www.youtube.com/watch

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It's a stunning video, and it reminded me of how much I love this kind of dance, and how much I don't know about dance.  As in, I have no idea what style(s) the dance in this video is/are.  I see some breakdance moves, but that's not the only thing going on here.  Does this fall under the rubric of "modern dance"?  Is is something more specific?

More importantly, where can I see more of this?  Especially, where in the Twin Cities can I see this live?  I don't even know what to search for, so impoverished is my vocabulary.  

Anybody have any good pointers?  

Thanks.  

Comments

[calimac]

The bit in this video isn't classical ballet, just in the style of, and it isn't en pointe, which is the thing with the toes. (They wear reinforced shoes to do that, by the way, so it's a little less hideous than it looks.)

My point is that there's multiple types of dance going on in there. If there's a form of modern dance which includes an eclectic mix of everything else, then that's what this is. But it's not the original high modern form of modern dance, which is what I know.

[lydy]

Only slightly less hideous. Have you ever seen x-rays of a working ballerina's feet?

I really like the interactions between the dancers in this video. I worry that really abstract dance will not have the emotional kick that the dance in this video has for me. But, well, some exploration would be good, I think.