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American Modern Dance Pioneers

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Isadora Duncan, Maud Allen, Louie Fuller

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Isadora Duncan

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American modern dance pioneer. Dance = means of personal, emotional expression. Mother of Modern Dance. Influenced by Greeks. Women’s rights, big orchestral works

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Loie Fuller

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American modern dance pioneer. Known for theatrical effect. “Skirt dancer”. 1st multi-media artist: colored lights w/ colored films.

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Maud Allen

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American modern dance pioneer. Admired Greeks, influenced by Duncan. Wore transparent chiffon costumes w/ jewelry

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Fore runners of Modern Dance

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Ruth St. Denis, Ted Shawn (together made Denishawn School) (Ted Shawn made Jacob’s Pillow)

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Ruth St Denis

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fascinated by Far East and Asian culture. Very theatrical. Works were ethnic based (“Insence”, “Rada”, “Cobra”). Skills weren’t highly developed, but technique was to use many poses and decorative costumes and props. Gift for improv, aware of audience. Made Denishawn School & Company with Ted Shawn

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Ted Shawn

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more analytical, less mystic. Respect for technical training. Focused on the need to develop and recognize male dancers. Made Denishawn School & Company with Ruth St. Denis. After divorce, made Jacob’s Pillow

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Denishawn School and Company

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Founded by Ted Shawn and Ruth St. Denis. Influential on America’s youth. Toured US, dedicated to theory and technique. Had Martha Graham, Doris Humphrey and Charles Weidman

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Jacob’s Pillow

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founded by Ted Shawn after divorce w/ Ruth St. Denis. All male dance comopany

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technique

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a teachable system or progression of movement

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Modern dance founders

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Martha Graham, Doris Humphrey, Charles Weidman, Lester Horton (only one not from Denishawn)

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Martha Graham

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Modern dance founder. Student of Denishawn. Contract and release. Torso = emotional center. Dances were psychological dramas. Drama and tension in dances. Modern music. Set was symbolic and functional. Louis Horst was her music director, developed a method of teaching dance composition and founded 1st modern dance monthly journal.

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Louis Horst

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Martha Graham’s music director, developed a method of teaching dance composition and founded 1st modern dance monthly journal.

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Doris Humphrey and Charles Weidman

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Modern dance founders. Students of Denishawn. Fall and recovery, balance and suspension. Played with gravity. Subject matters were about man and women as they co-exist in modern America
Doris Humphrey - had major impact as teacher of choreography, created Musical Visualization dances at beginning of career
Charles Weidman - created dances about life and family w/ satire and humor

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Lestor Horton

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Modern dance founder. West Coast, not part of Denishaw. Established first racially integrated dance company in the U.S. Established first permanent modern dance theatre in LA. Developed technique that prevented injury (Horton Technique). Choreographic subjects were humanitarian based. brought out stripes of ethnic groups. Alvin Ailey was his student

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Post Modernism

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revolted against beginning, middle, end. Development in painting, sculpture and music. “Pop”, “minimal”, “collage”, “found art”, “body painting”. Concept and process and trial and error were as important as the work itself

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Post Modern Dance Innovators

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Merce Cunningham, Alwin Nokolais

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Merce Cunningham

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post modern dance innovator. Not a student of Denishawn. Chance dance, dance events. For and about the movement, not emotion. No “male” or “female” movements. Movement for movement’s sake, no meaning. Choreographed with John Cage (“Voiceless Essay”), Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg

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Alwin Nikolais

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post modern dance innovator. choreographer/non-collaborative, multi-media innovator. One-man show. Psychedelic. “Motion not emotion”

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Post-Post modern movement

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Pedestrian movements. Collaboration w/ theatre arts (dance theatre). Technique = release and flow. Tai Chi and yoga

Judson Dance Theatre. 
Steve Paxton (contact improvisation - partnered improv), 
Meredith Monk (vocals, voice poetry in performance).
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Dance theatre

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development in post-post modern movement. Genre that blends dance and theatre. Both are an integral part of performance. Performances may have spoken word, text, singing and choreography, w/ theme, dramatics, and theatrics

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Jazz origins

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rhythms and drumming of African slaves. Music came first, dance after. Drumming forbidden by Slave Laws because fear of secret codes hidden in drumming = body percussion and ring shout (rhythm with long stick on floor). Soft shoe derived from being forbidden to lift feet off floor, so would rub

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Body percussion

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developed because drumming was forbidden. Juba - rhymes to the body percussions

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Ring shout

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dance created by rhythm w/ long stick on floor because forbidden to drum

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soft shoe (tap)

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created from being forbidden to lift feet off floor in church, so would rub

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Savoy Ballroom

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major place where black people got together after work and danced. Eventually allowed whites to come and mingle. Influenced white culture. Created lindy hop and swing. Dance competitions and marathons

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Lindy Hop

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dance created from mingling of whites and blacks in Savoy Ballroom. Danced to swing music

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Swing (music)

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created from mingling of whites and black in Savoy Ballroom. Big band. Dance marathons & competitions

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black dance is defined

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as dance forms indigenous to and developed by specific African, Caribbean or Afro-American cultural groups. Should be a generic term. Idioms include traditional black dance mvmt and themes drawn from lives of black people in America

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concert dance

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movement learned and studied in a dance school or studio, intended for performance by a nonparticipating audience

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reconstruction of researched dance

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once a dance form has been removed from its authentic sociocultural context, adapted for performance, and placed in a theatrical environment for a viewing audience, it represents a new artistic expression

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Katherine Dunham

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jazz. African American, “Matriarch of black dance”. Dunham technique - goal to be as important to the white man as to the negro, make dance a more dignified art. “Shango” dance based on research in Caribbean ritual

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Pearl Primus

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jazz. Dancer, choreographer, anthropologist. Composed work about black experience in Africa, Caribbean, and in America. Reconstructed these works and brought to concert stage. Dance expression based on modern dance techniques of Graham, Humphrey/Weidman

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Asadata Dafora

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jazz. “Ostrich” dance - went to Africa, observed ritual, turned into concert performance

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Alvin Ailey

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jazz. studied w/ Lester Horton and taught at his school. Created Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre (influenced by Dunham, Graham, and Horton technique). “Revelations”. Work touches all people, but are distinctly rooted in Black American culture

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Arthur Mitchell

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jazz. First African American to dance w/ New York City Ballet. Founder of Dance Theatre of Harlem (first African American classical ballet company). Repertory includes African American themes and history

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Eleo Pomare

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jazz. “Junkie” dance of drug addict (average black urban NY man in 1970s). Used jazz music

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Garth Fagan

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jazz. Jamaican. Dances had Caribbean sound and African percussion. Had African dance commonalities

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Jazz technique creators

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Luigi, Mattox, Giordano, Fosse

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Jazz characteristics

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bent knees and ankles, loose spine, dynamic attack of mvmt, mvmt from pelvis, polycentric, isolations and shimmy, cool/hot, “attitude”

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Jazz and entertainment

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jazz music, swing, syncopated rhythms, hot/cool sounds.
Entertainers: Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire, Bo Jangles Robinson, Michael Jackson, Bob Fosse (Chicago, Cool style, swing music, song “Sing Sing Sing”).
Shows - Chicago, Sweet Charity, West Side Story, Thriller

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Neo-Classic Era of Ballet (George Balanchine)

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George Balanchine created this movement. Intimate relationship w/ music. Drama is in the movement. Abstract, plotless ballets. Streamlined dancers. Technique for speed. Clear, crisp spatial design, uncluttered. Minimal costuming. Favored women. Jazz influenced. Created the School of American Ballet and New York City Ballet

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choric principle

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everyone dancing together at same time. Group speaks as one voice. Mary Wigman (European Modern Dance Pioneer)

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Mary Wigman

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European Modern Dance Pioneer. Choric principle - everyone dancing together at same time

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