History Of Dance

Question 1

Modern dance

Answer 1

Rebellion against ballet 
Feeling not form 
Torso moves 
No shoes 
With gravity

Question 2

Vaudeville

Answer 2

Birth place of modern art
Had a family environment
Was very diverse a lot of variety

Question 3

Modern dance vocabulary

Answer 3

It’s created from the inside out

Meaning u creat you’d own vocabulary as u creat the dance moves

Question 4

Isadora Duncan

Answer 4

Never word shoes
Basic steps hopping and skipping and running
Use tunics

Question 5

Adopted her students

Answer 5

Isadora Duncan

Question 6

Scarf

Answer 6

Signature of is Isadora Duncan

Reason for her death

Question 7

Move to Europe

Answer 7

Isadora Duncan because believe that they were more open minded and would understand her

Question 8

Denishawn

Answer 8

A combination of Ruth st Denis and Ted Shawn

Question 9

Ruth St. Denis

Answer 9

Started in vaudeville
Did ethnic dance
Not accurate though
Early broadway dancer

Question 10

Ted Shawn

Answer 10

One of Ruth dancer

Marry her and broke her heart

Question 11

Company split

Answer 11

Ruth and Ted broke up now the company split when their separate way

Question 12

Martha graham

Answer 12

Most famous modern dancer
Born in PA Alegbury
Only dance after her fathers death
Lived until she was 97

Question 13

Rebellion against religion

Answer 13

Martha very rebellion against religion because she was pressure to much by her father

Show in her dances making priest look goofy

Question 14

Father psychiatrist

Answer 14

Martha graham

Influence her to come up with the theory of body in mind

Question 15

Favorite student of denishawn

Answer 15

Martha graham

Question 16

Mentor to graham

Answer 16

Lous harst

Is a musician

Question 17

Martha graham technic

Answer 17

Use floor

Move mainly in pelvis

Question 18

Martha graham Choreographer

Answer 18

Made dances that suited her

Told everything from a woman’s point of view

Question 19

Marsha and Asia influence

Answer 19

Had props in her dance
Like the art
Use rope symbols marriage
Use brunch symbols blined

Question 20

Merced Cunningham

Answer 20

Had a sense of adventure 
Wanted to know everything (Smart )
Open minded 
Study ball dance age of 8 
Bothers were lawyers

Question 21

Codish school

Answer 21

No walls

Merce Cunningham

Question 22

Study with Martha and Balanchine

Answer 22

Merce Cunningham

Question 23

Learn from Balanchine and graham

Answer 23

The pelvis movement (M)

The leg and jumping (b)

Question 24

John cage

Answer 24

Musician

Mentor of merce Cunningham

Question 25

Mother of classical ballet

Answer 25

Merce Cunningham

Question 26

Created chance dance

Answer 26

Influence on Asia culture

He would use the book name I Ching and make u role a dance and what ever it landed it would be the dance u wold dance

Question 27

Choreography of mercy Cunningham

Answer 27

A lot of things happen at a time
Express in kinetic rather then story lime
-makes u think about it rather then show u

Question 28

Paul Taylor

Answer 28

Movie guy

Muscular tone

Question 29

Paul Taylor vocabulary

Answer 29

The vocabulary were description of the dances

Question 30

Choreography and dances

Answer 30

Funny and serious dances

Couldn’t see the Dane have to dance and he would mold it

Question 31

Village performance

Answer 31

Paul Taylor did a presentation where he hock him self up with a ER matching and call of intervene lecture

Question 32

Study with graham

Answer 32

He study with graham almost at the same time as Cunningham but he was younger then him