Dance Appreciation Test 3

Front 1

what are the two driving desires for a change of direction for dance in the 20th century were...

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1) to return to expressive motivation and personal vision 2) to revolt against the formal design and patterned movement of ballet

Front 2

what influences an artist besides one's individual impulse to express inner thought and feeling through movement?

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trends in the other arts, social, political, religious, spiritual, philosophical issues

Front 3

where did the first glimmerings of modern dance begin?

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America and Germany

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Who were delsarte and dalcroze?

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19th century european movement theorists

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what did delsarte and dalcroze pioneer?

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both devised different methods in understanding human movement

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delsarte believed in _____ while dalcroze developed a method called ______

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freedom and relaxation, eurythmics

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what is eurythmics?

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teaches concepts of rhythm, structure, and musical expression using movement,

Front 8

Rudolf von Laban devised systems of ______ and _____ dance and all movement, which is still in use today

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analyzing and notating

Front 9

What did Mary Wigman's works deal with?

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struggle between conflicting powers

Front 10

What were Mary Wigman's two innovative uses of music?

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silence and she would create the music after her choreography was completed

Front 11

Which Mary Wigman student opened a Wigman school in NYC?

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Hanya Holm

Front 12

Who became the first modern dancer to successfully choreography for Broadway musicals?

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Hanya Holm

Front 13

Who was the mother of modern dance?

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Isadora Duncan

Front 14

Where did Isadora Duncan receive her inspiration?

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nature, inside herself, and ancient Greek art

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What were Isadora Duncan's reasons for dancing?

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spiritual and emotional

Front 16

What kinds of music did Isadora Duncan choose for training and performances?

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the finest classical music and symphonies, serious concert pieces

Front 17

What kinds of costumes and decor did Isadora Duncan use?

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greek style tunics in bare feet with plain curtains hanging behind

Front 18

who were two other american pioneers of the modern dance movement?

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Ruth St. Dennis and Ted Shawn

Front 19

Why did Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn found the Denishawn school?

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they felt that America was laking the integration of body and spirit the way they had observed in Indian, Japanese, and Asian dance forms

Front 20

How did St. Dennis continue to influence dance in America after her partnership with Shawn ended? Shawn?

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she continued to teach dance and form liturgical dance movement in choirs and church groups; he became a teacher and author

Front 21

Who were the most illustrious graduates of the Denishawn school?

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Martha Graham, Doris Humphrey, and Wildman

Front 22

What was Martha Graham's devised system of muscular tension and relaxation known as?

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contraction and release

Front 23

What is contraction and release based on?

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breath and breathing

Front 24

What did Martha Graham's technique and performing style include?

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seated exercises for flexible hips and spines, standing exercises for strength, controlled falls

Front 25

what type of themes did Martha Graham like to choreographically explore?

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pre-christian, christian, american pioneers, greek tragedies

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Christian Themes
American Pioneers
Greek Tragedies

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Primitive Mysteries, Appalachian Spring, Night Journey

Front 27

Why did many of Martha Graham's talented dancers leave her company?

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to explore their own movement ideas

Front 28

What was Doris Humphrey's technique based on?

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fall and recovery

Front 29

Doris Humphrey's book _________ is still used today for dance composition and choreography ideas

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The Art of Making Dances

Front 30

What did Lester Horton's technique emphasize?

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strong, fluid torso, and ease of movement

Front 31

What were Lester Horton's works about?

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social problems

Front 32

Who was Lester Horton's most well known student?

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Alvin Ailey

Front 33

What was one of Ailey's famous performances?

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Beloved --> based on a newspaper article about a minister who beat his wife to death with a bible because he thought she was unfaithful; was performed by dance theater harlem also

Front 34

what two male dancers started their careers in Martha Graham's company?

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Erick Hawkins and Paul Taylor

Front 35

What was Hawkin's mainly interested in? What was the dance called?

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American historical and literary themes; Plains Daybreak

Front 36

What does Paul Taylor dramatically portray? What was the dance called?

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human experience by juxtaposing light and dark, humor and tragedy; Speaking in Tongues

Front 37

Where did Anna Soklow graduate from?

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Martha Graham's Company

Front 38

What did Anna Soklow explore in her dancing?

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unanswerable questions of societal importance such as urban isoolation and the Holocaust

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What were the names of Anna Soklow's dances?

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Rooms and Dreams

Front 40

Who did Eleo Pomare study with?

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Kurt Jooss

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What did Eleo Pomare explore; what was his dance called?

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African American themes; The Junkie

Front 42

Who is called the father of Post-Modernism?

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Merce Cunningham

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Who does Merce Cunningham collaborate with?

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contemporary composers and artists; uses chance as impetus for choreography

Front 44

Who's works were entirely created by him for a total stage environment, his dancers often used as abstract, moving sculptural shapes?

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Alwin Nikolais

Front 45

What was one of Alwin Nikolais's works?

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Tensile Involvement

Front 46

Since the middle of the 20th century an attempt has been made to intertwine the diverse threads of what three dance genres?

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ballet, jazz, modern

Front 47

What are three trends that probably will continue in this century?

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1) blending of modern, ballet, jazz, tap, street dance 2) blending of theatrical with social and ethnic forms, sports and circus 3) blending with film, computer graphics and spoken word

Front 48

when dance is only one element of many, the total theatrical event is called what?

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Performance Art or Dance Theater

Front 49

Much of the work of contemporary choreographers is a continuation of whose dance experiments?

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Post-modern choreographers

Front 50

What is the underlying philosophy for the next wave artist?

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valid and acceptable to experience with dance in any way one desires

Front 51

What are some examples of new wave artists choreography?

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using buildings, dancing on mountains, etc

Front 52

What did Elizabeth Streb belive about music?

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that is was the enemy of dance, and that the sounds should be generated from the movements done by the body

Front 53

What are the interests of the post-moderns?

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improv, untrained performers, increased level of physical fitness, new environments, musical collage, spoken words, sounds and silence, new choices of subject matter

Front 54

What was the 50's like?

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Broadway musicals, WWII had ended, everyone believed that everything was going to be perfect

Front 55

What was the 60's like?

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civil rights movement, Vietnam war, woman's liberation movement

Front 56

Who were the Judson Church Choreographers?

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collection of NY choreographers who used trained and untrained dancers, performed in a de-sanctified church

Front 57

Who is Pilobolus?

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Athletes who created sculptural forms to be derived in more than one image

Front 58

Who is Meredith Monk?

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Is a multi-media artist; does EVERYTHING --> films, artist, choreography, script, writing; Turtle Dreams and Ellis Island

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Who is Bill T. Jones?

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known for energetic forceful movements, themes of racism and social injustice in society

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Who is known as the bad boy of modern dance?

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Mark Morris

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What is Mark Morris known for?

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his flare for storytelling, humor, jokes, gender jokes, white oak dance project with Mikhail Baryshnikov

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White Oak Dance Project

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school of ballet which encompasses everything from ballet to west African dance, flamenco, etc for all levels and ages

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who is Liz lerman?

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famous for dance exchange and multigenerational works, likes to dig deep, compares and contrasts

Front 64

What does training in many different styles produce?

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technically strong and versatile dancers

Front 65

Once the old enemy of modern dance, ______ is used in classes and _________ dancers join modern based companies

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ballet, ballet trained

Front 66

what is an example of pointe work that is not ballet?

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cirque de sole acrobatic team, Chinese swan lake

Front 67

Who were the earliest dancers/choreographers in the 20th century who crossed ballet and modern?

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Michel Fokine, Anna Pavlova, Vaslov Nijinsky

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Michel Fokine

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1st to do a ballet in one act, wanted one ballet to be different from the next, Les Sylphide

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Vaslov Nijinsky

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greatest male dancer of his time, did very shocking and innovative choreographic work

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Anna Pavlova

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best known female dancer of her time, traveled the world as a missionary for ballet dancing, was seen by Lincoln Kirstein

Front 71

What do the examples of Apollo and The Prodigal Son, two of ______ earliest ballets, tell us about his broad interests?

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George Ballanchine; abstract and narrative ballets

Front 72

What did Mr. B inculcate as the basis of his movement?

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musicality

Front 73

With what composer did Balanchine form a lifetime association with?

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Igor Stravinsky

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Where did Stravinsky start his career?

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Ballet Russe

Front 75

Who initially persuaded Balanchine to come to America? What was his answer?

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Lincoln Kirstein; said he needed a school first to do his ballets

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What are ballanchine dancer's known for?

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the fastest dancers in the world because a lot of their movements is based in 5th position and plie

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Where was Balanchine's childhood training at?

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Kirov School at the Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg, Russia

Front 78

What two dance genre's influenced Balanchine's exploration of movement and what style resulted? What is this style called?

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modern and jazz; neoclassical ballet

Front 79

Ballet of the Elephants

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choreographed by Balanchine and composed by Stravinsky, made for the Wringley Brothers for the Barnum and Bailey Circus

Front 80

What did Balanchine do that was different than some of his colleagues?

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he encouraged the talents of young choreographers in both ballet and modern from with and outside the company

Front 81

Who did Balanchine call his muse and Stradivarius?

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Suzanne Farrell

Front 82

When Balanchine passed, who was the NYCB directed by?

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Peter Martins --> former principal dancer and Jerome Robbins --> original member who choreographed equally successfully for ballet, Broadway, and films

Front 83

Who was the first African-American to become a principal male ballet dancer in a major ballet company?

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Arthur Mitchell

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Why did Arthur Mitchell leave NYCB at 35?

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he wanted to form a school in Harlem to give back to his community

Front 85

Where did the Arthur Mitchell company find its frist home?

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Gas station garage

Front 86

What accompaniment were for the first boy's ballet classes in the Arthur Miller company?

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drums, didn't have tights or ballet shoes, would wear gym clothes

Front 87

What Russian dancers defected to the west as a result of Balanchine's visits to his native land?

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Rudolf Nureyev and Mikhail Baryshnikov

Front 88

Who co founded the contemporary company, White Oak Dance with Mark Morris

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Mikhail Baryshnikov

Front 89

What American born brothers founded the San Francisco Ballet?

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Lou, Harold, and William Chritensen

Front 90

How did Agnes DeMille contribute to American ballet?

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with her ballet rodeo, she used American gestural language, did broadway based choreography --> Oklahoma

Front 91

Who is the choreographer who has successfully intertwined many dance forms of ballet, modern, Broadway, and film, moving from an iconoclastic to a more mainstream style?

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Twila Tharp

Front 92

What American ballet company has the identity as "the voice of young America in dance"?

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Joffrey Ballet

Front 93

Who founded the Joffrey Ballet? Where is it located?

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Robert Joffrey, Chicago

Front 94

What kinds of works for the repertoire of the Joffrey Ballet?

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Bourneville, Nijinsky, reconstruction of works (bands across stage film)

Front 95

Who was Maurice Bejart?

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French, added new vigor to classical dance

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Who was Pina Bausch?

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German, trained at Julliart, added body language, sexual warefare, and loneliness to dance

Front 97

What ballet was choreographed by both Bejart and Bausch?

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Sacre du Printemps (Rite of Spring)

Front 98

How are Bejart and Bausch similar in their choreography?

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both used powerful emotional content and sexuality in their gorgeous, almost overwhelming ballets

Front 99

Who is the artistic advisor and choreographer for the Nederlands Dans Theater?

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Jiri Kylian

Front 100

What does Kylian combine in his choreographer?

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modern and ballet

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NDT II and NDT III; What ballet?

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17-22; 40+; Road to the Stamping Ground

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What is Butoh?

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Japanese dance of darkness, shows us impalpable truths about ourselves, makes us look at things we don't want to look at, deals with human conditions (depravity, disease, death, starvation)

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Who was the first person to do the Butoh?

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Tatsumi Hijkata

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Garth Fagan

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After Before --> a piece about what happened with African movement after slavery, from the Islands

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Molissa Fenley

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choreographed solo to Rite of Spring

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Rite of Spring
choreographer, score, producer

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Nijinksy, Stravinski, Diaghelev by Ballet Russe

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Elizabeth Streb

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thought we ought to be able to fly; sets and costumes were in primary colors only

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Kylian

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explored the animal in us, explores how the body moves (movie with dancers jumping and slapping their bodies)