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20 Cards in this Set
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Delsarte |
-Logical system of expressive movement -oppositions -parallelism -Successions -contraction and release |
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Dalcroze |
Swiss music teacher Accentuate rhythmic awareness Body exercise Eurythmics Music visualization |
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Fuller |
Improve while wearing silk dress Created first visual effects First American to perform in Europe as a soloist |
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Duncan |
First true American modern dancer Inspired by Greek art Theories on dance Free and natural movement Invented modern dance |
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Denishawn |
Ethnic dances Question of cultural appropriation Used large casts |
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Graham |
Muscular tension and relaxation Religious dances, American pioneer experience and psychological Only ever performed her work Technique continues to be taught |
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Humphrey |
Spacial design and movement Gestures and abstraction Between balance and unbalance Fall and bring back to center |
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Weidman |
Satirist Pantomime Works were lighthearted and entertaining |
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Dunham |
Anthropologist Performed African and afro carribean dances Combined modern, carribean,West African and ballet Barrel house blues African American experience |
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Primus |
Anthropologist African American experience Study and preservation of world dances Born in Trinidad |
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Horton |
Strong, fluid torso and ease of movement Focused on bigotry and war Made own rite of spring |
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Cunningham |
From Graham Movement for it's own sake Created chance dances Greatly inspired post modern dance |
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Hawkins |
Came from Graham Historical American themes Live accompaniment Took strength and control |
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Ailey |
Student of Horton Modern, jazz, and ethnic First multi racial company |
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Limón |
Performed and choreographed with Humphrey Opened own company Dramatic, others lyrical and abstract Limón technique still taught |
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Paxton |
improv Floor is your friend Survive in the dance moment Contact improvFloor is your friendSurvive in the dance momentWillingness to try everythingBreak boundaries Basic actions Willingness to try everything Break boundaries Basic actions |
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Noide |
primitivism Return to primitivismDance around the golden calf Dance around the golden calf |
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Laban |
Notation developer Founder of European modern dance |
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Wigman |
Studied with Dalcroze and Laban Concerned with showing impact of internal feeling Meaningful Ness of space Witch dance |
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Schlemner |
Directed Bauhaus Dance productions and performance demonstrations |
