Editing Ballet (section)

===Contemporary ballet===
{{main|Contemporary ballet}}
[[File:Grace in winter, contemporary ballet.jpg|thumb|A ballet jump performed with modern, non-classical form in a contemporary ballet]]
This ballet style is often performed barefoot.<ref>{{cite book
 | title=The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Ballet
 | year=2021 | isbn=9780190871499
 | editor1-first=Jill Nunes | editor1-last=Jensen
 | editor2-first=Kathrina | editor2-last=Farrugia-Kriel
 | publisher=Oxford University Press
 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nTkqEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA426 }}</ref> Contemporary ballets may include [[Mime artist|mime]] and [[acting]], and are usually set to music (typically orchestral but occasionally vocal). It can be difficult to differentiate this form from neoclassical or modern ballet. Contemporary ballet is also close to [[contemporary dance]] because many contemporary ballet concepts come from the ideas and innovations of twentieth-century modern dance, including floor work and turn-in of the legs. The main distinction is that ballet technique is essential to perform a contemporary ballet.

George Balanchine is considered to have been a pioneer of contemporary ballet. Another early contemporary ballet choreographer, [[Twyla Tharp]], choreographed ''Push Comes To Shove'' for the [[American Ballet Theatre]] in 1976, and in 1986 created ''In The Upper Room'' for her own company. Both of these pieces were considered innovative for their melding of distinctly modern movements with the use of pointe shoes and classically trained dancers.

Today there are many contemporary ballet companies and choreographers. These include [[Alonzo King]] and his company [[Alonzo King LINES Ballet|LINES Ballet]]; [[Matthew Bourne]] and his company [[New Adventures (dance company)|New Adventures]]; [[Complexions Contemporary Ballet]]; [[Nacho Duato]] and his [[Compañia Nacional de Danza]]; William Forsythe and [[The Forsythe Company]]; and [[Jiří Kylián]] of the [[Nederlands Dans Theater]]. Traditionally "classical" companies, such as the Mariinsky (Kirov) Ballet and the Paris Opera Ballet, also regularly perform contemporary works.

The term ''ballet'' has evolved to include all forms associated with it. Someone training as a ballet dancer will now be expected to perform neoclassical, modern and contemporary work. A ballet dancer is expected to be able to be stately and regal for classical work, free and lyrical in neoclassical work, and unassuming, harsh or pedestrian for modern and contemporary work. In addition, there are several modern varieties of dance that fuse classical ballet technique with contemporary dance, such as [[Hiplet (dance style)|Hiplet]], that require dancers to be practised in non-Western dance styles.<ref name=kourlas>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/04/arts/dance/hiplet-an-implausible-hybrid-plants-itself-on-pointe.html|title=Hiplet: An Implausible Hybrid Plants Itself on Pointe|last=Kourlas|first=Gia | date=2 September 2016 | newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|issn=0362-4331|access-date=2016-12-03|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161221165024/http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/04/arts/dance/hiplet-an-implausible-hybrid-plants-itself-on-pointe.html|archive-date=2016-12-21}}</ref>