Music Analysis: The Green Table

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Chazzerick Cox Professor Mulcahy Dance Appreciation 2303.WS1 March 8th 2018

The Green Table is a sly move by the famous German choreographer Kurt Jooss and is without a doubt one of his most surely understood works. The music was masterfully coordinated by Frederick Cohen who was the German arranger best known for making the music for Kurt Jooss' clear artful dance exhibitions. The entrancing routine is an accumulation of expressive move schedules from around the globe, where it has been orchestrated by Jooss himself in which the craftsmen depict the futility of excessive
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It's as a unique style, with its cutting perplexity, epitome, and nature of tongue. It has a vast amount to associate itself with the idea of Expressionism, which greatly flourished in the primary decade of the twentieth century. The negative structure of the dance, for instance, is a formal verbalization of this dry preposterousness, for example, when the delegates repeat their routine with mean looks of stress which are consequences of their poor and judgmental choices. The problem with their exchange is that it is refuted and it is shown by the music that kept going along with this scene like that of a perhaps a tango. I appreciate the costumes of the characters in camouflage and how it gave the artists both an unmistakable look and persona all at once while the fruits of their labor are embellishments of naturalistic progression. This can be seen as the artists are thrashing around while in the heat of their debating, or even the uneasy pacing as the participants think about the current issue. Ted Johnson from Enthusiast-Dance.com states, "the dance still illustrates the headlines and exposes today’s …show more content…
The class was evenly split on the idea and of course I took the lead of my team and brought valuable information to show proof that the phenomenon of global warming is in fact taking place in our world right now. I stated the facts such as talking about infrared light and CO2 and how it implies the way vitality though the environment changes considerably especially in the atmosphere. This argument alone brought many to my side after the only response from the opposite team was that global warming is just the Earth still heating up from the ice age. I still needed to convince the rest of the student though. I explained that regardless of this information, it is with 100% certainty that the atmosphere will change at an unnaturally fast rate as we continue modifying the air in the way we are doing. It is physically inconceivable for the atmosphere to remain the same if ozone depleting substances have a larger increment over time. I was able to get everyone on my side through being both assertive in my approach and stating facts. It felt good to win a small social battle like this and I was president of the debate team for many years after that. It goes to show if you can persuade young minds in a classroom like that what you could do with people out in he real

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