The development of musical forms in choreographic art in the second half of the XXth century

Abstract

The article is devoted to the issues of form-generation in the musical choreographic perfomances in the second half of the XX century. The cooperation between John Cage and Merce Cunningham in the dance art is analysed. The author lists up the main types of music forms (mobile form and modular form) and methods of the interaction, which were characterized for the dances of Postmodern period. The role of the improvisation in dance is highlighted.
Thus, there are specific methods for creating / writing a musical composition and the principles of forming in the postmodern dance. The creative principle of indeterminism and the method of random action are the most important among them, which have become the basis of the musical-choreographic performances and the works of pure instrumental music of the second half of the XX century. The main characteristic of the dance performances is the freedom of form formation. The composers, who worked in postmodern dance, use the aleatory forms to look for the new structural solutions of the organic combination with a free choreographic compositions with the academic cliche. The composers and choreographers consider that the main artistic task is the transition of the art work from the object into the process.