ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on a historiographical consideration of modern dance from before the First World War up until the present. It uncovers the ways in which definitions of modern dance and ideas about its relationships with modernity have changed over the years. It looks at how recent scholarship in dance studies has dealt with questions of dance, modernism, and modernity. It then reconsiders the writing of dance history in the first half of the twentieth century by dance writers and dance artists and how they approached the problematics of dance and modernity.
