Interpretive dance

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Interpretive dance is a family of dance styles that seeks to interpret the meaning inherent in music rather than by performing specific preformatted moves. Normally accustomed to the stylistic interpretation of beats and/or sounds created from stylistic and other mainstream and non-mainstream musical media.

Likened to the higher form of arts, interpretive dance can be seen in many Broadway musicals as well as in other forms of mainstream and non-mainstream media. While it was—and most often, still is—thought of as performing art, interpretive dance does not have to be performed with music.

Examples include:

• Glowsticking
• Liturgical dancing
• Popping (dance)