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I decided to watch The Best of Riverdance for my investigational response. The video I watched included 18 best of Riverdance performances. Riverdance is considered a stage show featuring Irish step dancing and Irish music. The first original piece referred to as “Riverdance” was performed in 1994 at the Eurovision Song Contest in Ireland. The piece was well received and prompted Moya Doherty (Producer), Bill Whelean (Composer and Musician), and John McColgan (Director and Producer) to…

Katherine Dunham was a legendary dancer who made the cultures of African Diaspora known through dancing and choreography. But she is much more than that, she was an artist, author, anthropologist, manager, movie star, teacher, and mother. She revolutionized American dance by using her experience in black dance and rituals and transforming them into a choreography that speaks to the audience. Katherine Dunham was born June 22, 1909 and she died May 21, 2006. But she accomplished so much in her…

Marvin Gaye Net Worth Marvin Pentz Gay Jr was born on the 2nd April 1939 in Washington D.C USA and died on 1st April 1984. He is known to the world under the short name, Marvin Gaye, the American soul and R&B singer. During his career, Marvin has released a total of 17 studio albums, some of which include “The Soulful Moods Of Marvin Gaye” (1961), “I Heard It Through The Grapevine” (1968), “What`s Going On” (1971), “Let`s Get It On” (1973), “Midnight Love” (1982) among others. Have you ever…

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…

Misty Copeland was born on September 10, 1982 in Kansas City, Missouri. Misty Copeland endured a tumultuous home life to dance, eventually she began to study under California ballet instructor Cindy Bradley. Misty joined the studio company of American Ballet Theatre in 2000, becoming a soloist several years later an starring in an array of productions such as The Nutcracker and Firebird. An icon whose star shines beyond the world of classical dance, in late June 2015 Misty became the first…

British Dance: Influential Black Dancers Made an Impact on Britain “Like Britain itself, British dance has been informed by different waves of immigration”, says dance history professor Ramsay Burt (Roy). Ballet “took root” through a determined Polish woman, Marie Rambert, and Irishwoman, Ninette de Valois (Roy). Modern dance was arranged by exiles form Germany in the 1930s and visitors from America in the 1950s and 1960s (Roy). The stories and history of black British dancers however, tends to…

Martha Graham preceded to transform dance with her style, originality and new ideas. Martha was a modern dancer and choreographer. Who way of dance has been influence and compared with Picasso. Martha first started teaching dance in 1926 her first group of people had been sucked into her creative style and technique. After the first lesson she started Martha Graham Studio so that all dancers influenced by her can be under her watchful eye. The National Association of Schools of dance adopted…

Martha Graham was and still is a renowned modern Dance pioneer of her time, a woman who made a remarkable impact on dance. She was a visionary for dance in the 1900’s challenging the world of classical ballet with its gracefully structured moves and its fairy tale performances. To Graham ballet did not represent the world she lived in so she created her own style and technique known as “the Graham technique.” She dedicated her life to this new modern style of dance which she herself performed…

Loie Fuller Marie Louise Fuller (1862-1928) was a significant dancer born in Fullersburg, Chicago, later to be known as Loie Fuller or “La Loie”. Fuller is known for her innovation and experimental cooperation with technology and multimedia techniques such as extravagant lighting and usage of mirrors during the twentieth-century in order to ‘hypnotize’ and capture her audience. Fuller’s innovations would inspire many various types of artists and intellectuals, including future modern dancers…

In the late 1700s, early 1800s, ballet, and classical music were iconic across the world. Ballet originated in the Italian Renaissance courts of the 15th century and later developed into a concert dance form in France and Russia. It is a very technical, rigid dance full with grace and intricate footwork. Its vocabulary is based in French and Italian, with a philosophy that is historically recognizable by almost all. Ballet requires years of training, which is often expensive. Most people who…