antiballet
nounEtymology From anti- + ballet.
1
A ballet that deliberately avoids the typical conventions of ballet.
- I frequently think of Cunningham's dances as antiballets, but not because I think he is trying to provoke controversy or attack the other form.1985, Marcia B. Siegel, The Shapes of Change: Images of American Dance, page 326:
- We decided to do an antiballet about someone who lies down most of the time, or just crawls around on the floor.1987, The National Storytelling Journal, volume 4, number 1, page 29:
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- The Triadic Ballet was an antiballet: Schlemmer's model of theater was not influenced by the physical techniques and spatial perspective of ballet, but by the materialization of abstract principles of space and movement in the total mask of the costume.2015, Gabriele Brandstetter, Poetics of Dance, page 291: