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What is modern dance?
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It’s a rebellion against ballet, rejected the structures of ballet. Rebellion against the restraints of ballet and society
Began in the early 1900s in America |
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7 points of contrast btw ballet and modern:
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1. Floor
2. Style and body posture- ballet= straight, modern=core 3. Structure- ballet more structured 4. Content- modern= abstract or thoughtless. Theme is anything 5. Production elements- modern dance uses fewer or more creatively 6. Music- ballet is classical 7. Movement vocabulary- modern dance is free flowing… accepting of all different styles |
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Isadora Duncan
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The beginning American pioneer of modern dance
Music visualization Greek artwork was her inspiration |
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Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn
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First school of modern dance in LA
They were husband and wife Founded Denishawn school and company- 13 major American tours Training gown for modern dancers; Martha Graham, Doris Humphrey, Charles Weidman, Jack Cole |
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Martha Graham
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Generally accepted as the single greatest figure in American modern dance
Theory of movement- contraction and release- lungs expand and contract Systematized a method of teaching Themes: literary allusions, human conflicts and emotion Choreography: Lamentation- grief, Cave of the Heart, Night Journey, Errand in to the Maze, Appalachian Spring |
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Doris Humphrey
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Worked with Denishawn and then worked with Charles Weidman
Theory of movement- Fall and Recovery: (drop and suspend) Protégé was Jose Limon Bennington College in Vermont was the first modern dance workshop in a college Jose Limón- the Moor’s Pavane- story of Shakespeare Othello |
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The Avante Garde
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Judson Dance Theater wanted to bring radicalism to modern dance
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Twyla Tharp
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Worked with American Ballet Theater, Broadway theaters
Works: Push Comes to Shove-classical ballet with jazz and modern dance styles of movement Sinatra Suite-Frank Sinatra Deuce Coupe-beach boys Movin’ Out-Broadway musical, music by Billy Joel |
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Pilobolus
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Named after an ‘intelligent’ phototrophic fungus
Choreography done collectively Started by physics majors at Dartmouth “Monkshood’s Farewell” signature piece |
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Mark Morris
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Contemporary choreographer
Gender sensibility- androgynous “The Hard Nut”(parody of the Nutcracker) |
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Alvin Ailey
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Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater- Current director is Judith Jamison
Wanted to share the African-American experience through dance Cry and Revelations are two of his most famous works |
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Matthew Bourne
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Cotemporary choreographer
New version of Swan Lake-gender bender His choreography is noted for being musical, creative, and for having an androgynous sensibility |
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Jazz Dance
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Inspired by jazz music-roots in African and African-American sources
Jazz music started in the south- New Orleans Linked to social dances- swing, etc Often complex rhythms |
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Jazz Teachers-Matt Mattox
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Born in Tulsa, starred in “Seven Brides for Seven Brothers”
Modern jazz |
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Jack Cole
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Denishawn, Broadway, films w/ Marilyn Monroe
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Agnes De Mille
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ballet “Rodeo” and Broadway choreographer, “Oklahoma” unique because told a story though dance
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Jerome Robbins
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- Ballet master of NYCB
Also choreographed on Broadway; Gypsy Won Oscar and tony award for “West Side Story” |
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Bob Fossee
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first Broadway choreography job; Pajama Game
Style: sexually suggestive, turned in feet and legs, jazz hands Choreography: cabaret, Chicago, Pippin, Triple Crown 1972- Tony, Oscar, and Emmy Liza with a Z, Pippin, and Cabaret |
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Tap Dance
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Originated from flamenco, Irish step-dancing
The fist famous tapper was Bill Robinson (Bo jangles) His signature dance was the stair dance His most well known films are with Shirley Temple |
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Nicholas Brothers
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Harold and Fayard
Flash Act-danced in a number of films |
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Fred Astaire
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His most famous partner was Ginger Rogers
He is credited with developing the full body camera angle |
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Gene Kelly
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Dancer and chorographer
“An American in Paris” won an Oscar singing in the rain |
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Eleanor Powell
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famous for turns
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Gregory Hines
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movie Tap
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Tap Dogs
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by Dean Perry all male Australian group construction workers
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Savion Glover
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best know tap dancer today
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Theatrical Ethnic Dance
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A performance by a given region of nation that usually celebrates the religious, cultural, or social background of that people
Takes elements of folk or ethnic dance and thatricalizes them River dance, Ballet folklorico, Belly dance Superstars, Moiseyev, Flamenco companies |