Why are footless tights required for Modern dance? no sleepers...?

Answer 1

Modern dance was inspired by Denishawn dance. Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn trained their dancers to dance without ballet shoes. Martha Graham and Charles Weidman came from the Denishawn school and company. They continued the "barefoot" tradition. It's traditional...kind of a rebellion against the formalities of "classical" dance and its restrictions.

Answer 2

Because Modern dance is almost always done barefoot. In order to make better contact with the floor, modern dancers do without shoes (although some use foot pads that only cover the ball of the foot: this helps with turns and keeps you from getting splinters on wooden floors). Tights covering your feet would be an impediment to that contact, and would also make you slip and fall.

Answer 3

so you wont slip with tights. Also some require you to wear dance paws/thongs/undies
which go around toes

Answer 4

so you wont slip in your tights
- plus you wont ladder them when you have no shoes on

personally i think you when you wear tights in dance you shoud have shoes on all the time (ballet shoes)
- oi hate footless tights!

Answer 5

so your toes can grab the floor and you won't fall.