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What is modern dance?
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
7 points of contrast btw ballet and modern:
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
Isadora Duncan
The beginning American pioneer of modern dance
Music visualization
Greek artwork was her inspiration
Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn
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
Martha Graham
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
Doris Humphrey
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
The Avante Garde
Judson Dance Theater wanted to bring radicalism to modern dance
Twyla Tharp
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
Pilobolus
Named after an ‘intelligent’ phototrophic fungus
Choreography done collectively
Started by physics majors at Dartmouth
“Monkshood’s Farewell” signature piece
Mark Morris
Contemporary choreographer
Gender sensibility- androgynous
“The Hard Nut”(parody of the Nutcracker)
Alvin Ailey
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
Matthew Bourne
Cotemporary choreographer
New version of Swan Lake-gender bender
His choreography is noted for being musical, creative, and for having an androgynous sensibility
Jazz Dance
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
Jazz Teachers-Matt Mattox
Born in Tulsa, starred in “Seven Brides for Seven Brothers”
Modern jazz
Jack Cole
Denishawn, Broadway, films w/ Marilyn Monroe
Agnes De Mille
ballet “Rodeo” and Broadway choreographer, “Oklahoma” unique because told a story though dance
Jerome Robbins
- Ballet master of NYCB
Also choreographed on Broadway; Gypsy
Won Oscar and tony award for “West Side Story”
Bob Fossee
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
Tap Dance
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
Nicholas Brothers
Harold and Fayard
Flash Act-danced in a number of films
Fred Astaire
His most famous partner was Ginger Rogers
He is credited with developing the full body camera angle
Gene Kelly
Dancer and chorographer
“An American in Paris” won an Oscar
singing in the rain
Eleanor Powell
famous for turns
Gregory Hines
movie Tap
Tap Dogs
by Dean Perry all male Australian group construction workers
Savion Glover
best know tap dancer today
Theatrical Ethnic Dance
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