sorry another dance question from me - jazz and modern theatre, what is the difference?

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ok my daughters do ISTD modern theatre dance and their friends do IDTA modern (which I think is modern jazz??). so are they basically the same they are just calling them different things or is there some fundamental difference I am missing? I mean ballet is called ballet, tap is tap so why have 2 sorts of modern? I don't really get it.

I was confused by this too, so I asked - Modern Theatre is the type of dance you might see in musicals in the West End/Broadway, and Jazz/Modern Jazz is similar but a bit more up-to-date and funky, and can contain more street/hip hop moves as well.

Could it be though, that the ISTD and IDTA examining bodies just use a different name for it?!

By the way, there are several different sorts of ballet as well, Imperial, Russsian, Cecchetti, Vaganova to name a few... and American Jazz Tap is pretty different from the English style of Tap too.

well I was wondering if it was just the exam boards trying to differ from each other. Your explanation makes sense. Probably a stupid question though but wouldn't modern jazz/jazz mainly use jazz music or is it literally just the style set with any music?

Yes I suppose there are different types of ballet, I just don't know the differences between those either and they all look the same to me....

never heard of American Jazz Tap. I thought there was just tap (and then obviously overlaps with irish hard shoe dancing and clog dancing or whatever it is called)

thank you

I thought jazz would be dancing to jazz music too, but I found out it isn't - it's much more likely to be something in the top 20 charts!

oh ok, so really in a way modern theatre or just plain modern is more accurate than modern jazz.

How confusing!
I'm wondering if the modern my DC does is actually modern jazz. It's IDTA syllabus. No chart music though. They also do Theatre craft, which seems to be show dance, musicals type.

Bare feet or ballet shoes to be worn for the modern they do. And ballet or split sole jazz shoes for the theatrecraft

theatre craft? I am not familiar with that one either. does that include musical theatre? sounds fun. off to google that now.

our modern theatre is bare foot until about grade 3 I think.

I always thought that they were both modern (which as you go up the grades you can choose between the lyrical or jazz amalgamation.

Jazz to me is a separate style (think Fosse style choreography)

At my daughters school they study ISTD Modern in Years 7-9 & add jazz to the curriculum in Year 10.

I find that modern is good for technique & complements ballet.

yes I noticed in ISTD that they do modern theatre until a certain level and then can also do jazz.

erm ok what exactly is lyrical? is that the overdramatic one?

Yes, it's a bit floaty & dramatic (ds would probably be horrified at my awful description)

Dd even.

your description makes perfect sense to me :o)