antiballet

English

Etymology

anti- +‎ ballet

Noun

antiballet (plural antiballets)

1. A ballet that deliberately avoids the typical conventions of ballet.
   • 1985, Marcia B. Siegel, The Shapes of Change: Images of American Dance, page 326:

     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.

   • 1987, The National Storytelling Journal, volume 4, number 1, page 29:

     We decided to do an antiballet about someone who lies down most of the time, or just crawls around on the floor.

   • 2015, Gabriele Brandstetter, Poetics of Dance, page 291:

     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.