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59 Cards in this Set
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Movement originates from central axis
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Alexander technique
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Developed technique to undue muscular tension accounted for his vocal problem
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Fredrick Alexander
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Discovered that the integration of our system as a whole is primarily determined by the co-ordination of head neck and back
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Alexander technique
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Rids tension in your muscles by learning to monitor the way we coordinate ourselves in any activity so that we can carry out that activity with the minimum strain
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Alexander technique
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Profession was an actor
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Fredrick Alexander
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The process of using mental imagery to affect the body's postural alignment in order to bring it to greater equilibrium
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Ideokinesis
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Credited for developing Ideokinesis
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Mabel e Todd
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Another name for Ideokinesis
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Imagined movement
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The goal is to alter the body's underlying structure to bring it into greater equilibrium
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Ideokinesis
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dr lulu sweigard and Barbra Clark.
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Pioneers of Ideokinesis
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Sweigard found the most relaxing position to be
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Constructive rest position
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Known as the center for control
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Powerhouse
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The area between the bottom of your rib age and the line across your hips (the band of muscles that circle the body just under the belt line)
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Powerhouse
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Pilates stance
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The V position of the feet that involves squeezing your legs together from the heels to the toes
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The act of connecting your abdominal stop your spine to engage the powerhouse region
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Navel to spine
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Pulling your navel into your spine to create a concave feeling in the belly
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Scoop
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Involves low repetition and slow movement
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Pilates technique
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Goal is to move with max efficiency; low impact system of body conditioning
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Pilates technique
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The act of stretching without strain or tension in the muscles
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Lengthening
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Enables the dancer to work through all of the important muscle groups while safely supporting the body on the floor.
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floor barre
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By lying on the floor you are not distracted by having to maintain your posture and balance
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Benefit of floor barre
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Gives you the opportunity to isolate and perfect each individual movement
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Floor barre
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It is was to adapt for dancers with injuries
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Floor barre
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Post modern dance is mostly known to be
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Avant-garde
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Meaning of avant-garde
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Experimental and innovative
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A modern innovator known for her work "The Shakers"
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Doris Humphrey
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Choreographer known for using the flip coin to determine the outcome of his choreography
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Merce Cunningham
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Known for introducing a type of creative process known as "chance dance "
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Merce Cunningham
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The composer merce Cunningham is most known for collaborating with
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John cage
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The name of the noteworthy piece that cunningham and cage created especially for the camera taking into account the multiple points of view the camera could generate
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"points in Space"
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Modern dance innovator known for his first work "The Moor's Pavane"
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Jose limon
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"The Moors pavane" conveyed the jealously, rage, and remorse of Shakespeare's
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"Othello"
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Focuses on the movement of breath through the body; use of weight and the fluid succession of one movement into the next
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Limon technique
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Mexican American who created a movement technique known to be
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Proud, high carriage of the torso, arms and head
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Choreographer known for brining the vernacular into high art, using Saturday and stances from the streey
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Paul Taylor
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Composed dances of everyday gestures, such as checking a watch or waiting for a bus
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Paul Taylor
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Labeled the "bad boy of modern dance"
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Mark Morris
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Known for works having an underlying story that dancers have to understand
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Mark Morris
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These two people collaborated to creat "White Oaks Dance Project"
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Mark Morris and mikhail Baryshnikov
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Choreographed a parody of "the nutcracker" called "the hard nut" set in suburbia 1960's America
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Mark Morris
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Began collaboration with major ballet companies therefor bringing contemporary ballet to the rise
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Twyla Tharp
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"Push comes to shove" is the title of her most famous work which was created as a vehicle for Baryshnikov
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Twyla Tharp
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Started as a dance class for males as Darmouth College
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Pilobolus
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Used a group collaboration and improvisation to create new choreography.
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Pilobolus
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Pilobolus is named after
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A fungus
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Signature work which was based on the religious heritage of his youth is "Revelations"
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Alvin Ailey
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Ailey dedicated "cry" to
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"All black women everywhere-especially our mothers"
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Ailey's style of dance is grounded in the technique of
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Lester Horton
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The lead dancer/star of the Ailey American dance theater who later was appointed artistic director emeritus
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Judith Jamison
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A choreographer that began as a painter and was also a soloist with the Martha Graham Dance company. He won an Emmy award for choreography "speaking in tongues"
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Paul Taylor
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Technique included a blend of African and Caribbean movement in repeated with techniques of ballet and modern dance
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Katherine Dunham
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Credited for the dance company "ballet negres"
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Katherine Dunham
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Her signature work was "shango"
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Katherine Dunham
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Russian fixed points
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Clockwise start at front of the room count all the way around
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Cecchetti fixed points
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Counter clockwise start at corners then count the walls
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A dancers box helps obtain a
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Classical line
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The curtains that create the entrance and exit area
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Legs
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Area of the stage from which dancers make their entrances and exits
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Wings
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Needed to achieve the proper lines of ballet
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Placement
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