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  1. Interpretive Dance

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    Interpretive dance is a broad genre of concert dance developed in the early 20th century (era), characterized by a rejection of the strict formal vocabulary of classical ballet in favor of a more expressive, personal, and often emotionally abstract vocabulary of movement. Unlike narrative ballet, which typically follows a pre-determined plot, interpretive dance seeks to convey internal states, philosophical concepts or subjective interpretations of external stimuli through corporeal dynamics $[^1]$.
    The genre is …