Choreography

It’s a Small World: Post-Modernism When dancers hear the name Trisha Brown, they immediately think of adventure. Brown is known for her work breaking barriers and expectations on the traditional idea of performance. Even from a young age, Brown did not like to play anything the safe way, “Trisha Brown had a normal outdoors childhood… including tree climbing, and football playing”(). As she grew, her sense of adventure mirrored. Brown began taking dance classes as a child and she wished to…

Discovering your personal learning style is the beginning step to a successful education. Once you uncover how you learn, you will find that you are able to learn much better. After taking the VARK questionnaire, I have discovered that I am a multimodal learner. According to the Oxford Dictionary (2016), multimodal is defined as being “characterized by several different modes of activity or occurrence”. In simpler terms, it means that my learning preferences include visual, aural,…

I've been really enjoying this thread and your discussion of swan Lake convinced me to sign up. I'm not usually this negative, but here's a bit I wrote about the NYCB costume gala... I saw the NYCB costume gala program (not on the gala night). I thought Justin Peck's Pulcinella was very well crafted. It's great to see him tackling Stravinsky, classicism and tutu ballets. In my opinion, the costume gala is always a gamble. One example is Liam Scarlett's duet where the woman is so dwarfed by…

help analyze how a viewer is making use of the received knowledge and investing it in other places. Popularity: Languages and provision of sub-titles of movies help an international viewer understand the international movies. Movies that contain choreography and music also contribute to its reason of popularity. Energizing Relationships: The number of times that a viewer either watches a certain movie, a particular genre of movie, movie based on the language choice or, chooses to watch movie…

stay true to who she was, even at such a young age and become a sort of role model to her younger siblings. At the start of her teenage years, she took part in activities at her Boys and Girls Club, and soon unknowingly discovered her talent in choreography. She took this interest and decided to be a part of her school’s drill team. While at the Boys and Girls Club, it was brought to her attention that ballet classes were taking place, and her drill team coach advised her to take them because of…

This is used in moments of intense anger or intense pleasure, fantasizing leaving her husband or being with her lover, creating a fool’s paradise. The element of dance is added beautifully in a fully realized vision of light and movement. The choreography is fairly clean and simple, with dances only used to further imply when Jenna is daydreaming or to add movement to some of the more upbeat songs of the production. The change from realism to dance during Jenna’s fantasies is a bold and useful…

Making Connections ‘Music’ and ‘dance’, while simple words, hold a world of significance to almost every culture across the globe. It is through the actions of these two elements that people are brought together in times of triumph, grievance, celebrations, and religious gatherings. Music and dance have a way of making you forget the busyness and stresses of life and find happiness and serenity in the present day. And regardless, whether music and dance are performed for an audience or done in…

Katherine Dunham was the first choreographer to integrate African American dance with modern dance highlighting the importance of African American culture. She showed the world just how beautiful African American heritage is, but did not stop there. Katherine Dunham influenced the African American culture by fighting her way into the dance community, by developing ethnographic research, and by empowering her Illinois community through the art and outlet of dance. “As an artist, educator,…

Dance has long been a medium that represents American culture that is constantly evolving and Martha Graham and Frank Gatson Jr. are two of many choreographers that helped developing modern dancing in America. After watching a lot of videos on how different type of dances emerged in America, I found Martha Graham’s work appealed to me the most because of her expressiveness and intensity in movements. Brought up by a father who was a psychiatrist, her first lesson of dancing was, “Movement never…

film scores are so diverse. Most films find it necessary to include a score however, musical films rely even more heavily on the use of music. Directed by Randal Kleiser, the musical film Grease (1978), effectively uses music, song, dance, and choreography to support the telling of a story of two young lovers. Before the musical elements of Grease can be examined and evaluated, the effectiveness of typical musical and non-musical film scores should be observed. The overall effectiveness of a…