ABSTRACT
In dance, the terms style and technique means one and the same thing because the word technique often means the content of the idiom. Thus we have ballet, jazz, contemporary techniques which produce these particular styles. It is interesting to study how new techniques, or changes of emphasis in traditional techniques, form particular styles. All choreographers try to invent new styles, they will probably take elements from the traditional style and embrace them within a style more relevant to the choreographer's own time. The styles of Graham, Cunningham and a few other early modern dance artists have become integrated and generalised to serve the needs of present-day choreographers. The style, creates the expression of grace, the technique or content with its emphasis on line, shape, balance, and the choreographic form with an emphasis on order, harmony and a pleasingly unified appearance, create the style of modern-formalism.
