The phrase "academic dance" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a specific style or form of dance that is studied or performed in an academic setting, such as a university or dance school.
Example: "The students showcased their skills in academic dance during the annual recital, highlighting the techniques they learned throughout the semester."
Alternatives: "scholarly dance" or "educational dance".
But it explores the academic dance idiom in depth.
She said she wanted a school with strong academic, dance and communications programs.
Sexy, loud, grinding, and aggressive, these works adamantly reject everything we associate with academic dance: symmetry, courtliness, poise.
For all its vernacular colorization, Robbins's use of academic dance technique is hardly known for its awkwardness.
In his twenties, he made a series of ballets that challenged academic dance as Picasso, around the same time, was challenging painting.
In a period of women's emancipation, women stepped to the front as propagandists for the new dance and toppled the conventions of the academic dance.
In this, ballet incorporated mime as well as academic dances, giving expression to the dance by narrative and histrionic context.
Because non-academic dance is so scantily recorded, it breeds debates about authenticity.
The pieces' lack of dance precision was part of their point, as was the way they seemed to flaunt a kind of unfocused and unrigorous intensity that in almost any academic-dance classroom would be considered bad style.
In agreeable aspects he's reminiscent of Mark Morris: the mixture of academic-dance steps (ballet and modern) with more informal or offbeat gestures; the music-related organization of dance motifs; the no-nonsense presentation of female-female, male-male, female-male and male-female partnering as equal.
He said he would like the Joyce to remain, but that he also must attend to his academic and dance public school for underprivileged students.
