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Unlike classical ballet, contemporary ballet often utilizes ground work and dancers often perform in bare feet.
A dancer performing a contemporary dance pieceContemporary dance is a genre of concert dance that employs compositional philosophy, rather than choreography, to guide unchoreographed movement. It uses dance techniques and methods found in ballet, modern dance and postmodern dance, and it also draws from other philosophies of movement that are outside the realm of classical dance technique.

The term "contemporary dance" is sometimes used to describe dance that is not classical jazz or traditional folk/cultural dance[citation needed]. The hallmark of contemporary dance is an awareness of the limitations of form[citation needed]. Sub-genres recently defined by dance critics include non-dance, conceptual dance and pedestrian contemporary