History Of Dance Flashcards
Modern dance
Rebellion against ballet Feeling not form Torso moves No shoes With gravity
Vaudeville
Birth place of modern art
Had a family environment
Was very diverse a lot of variety
Modern dance vocabulary
It’s created from the inside out
Meaning u creat you’d own vocabulary as u creat the dance moves
Isadora Duncan
Never word shoes
Basic steps hopping and skipping and running
Use tunics
Adopted her students
Isadora Duncan
Scarf
Signature of is Isadora Duncan
Reason for her death
Move to Europe
Isadora Duncan because believe that they were more open minded and would understand her
Denishawn
A combination of Ruth st Denis and Ted Shawn
Ruth St. Denis
Started in vaudeville
Did ethnic dance
Not accurate though
Early broadway dancer
Ted Shawn
One of Ruth dancer
Marry her and broke her heart
Company split
Ruth and Ted broke up now the company split when their separate way
Martha graham
Most famous modern dancer
Born in PA Alegbury
Only dance after her fathers death
Lived until she was 97
Rebellion against religion
Martha very rebellion against religion because she was pressure to much by her father
Show in her dances making priest look goofy
Father psychiatrist
Martha graham
Influence her to come up with the theory of body in mind
Favorite student of denishawn
Martha graham
Mentor to graham
Lous harst
Is a musician
Martha graham technic
Use floor
Move mainly in pelvis
Martha graham Choreographer
Made dances that suited her
Told everything from a woman’s point of view
Marsha and Asia influence
Had props in her dance
Like the art
Use rope symbols marriage
Use brunch symbols blined
Merced Cunningham
Had a sense of adventure Wanted to know everything (Smart ) Open minded Study ball dance age of 8 Bothers were lawyers
Codish school
No walls
Merce Cunningham
Study with Martha and Balanchine
Merce Cunningham
Learn from Balanchine and graham
The pelvis movement (M)
The leg and jumping (b)
John cage
Musician
Mentor of merce Cunningham
Mother of classical ballet
Merce Cunningham
Created chance dance
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
Choreography of mercy Cunningham
A lot of things happen at a time
Express in kinetic rather then story lime
-makes u think about it rather then show u
Paul Taylor
Movie guy
Muscular tone
Paul Taylor vocabulary
The vocabulary were description of the dances
Choreography and dances
Funny and serious dances
Couldn’t see the Dane have to dance and he would mold it
Village performance
Paul Taylor did a presentation where he hock him self up with a ER matching and call of intervene lecture
Study with graham
He study with graham almost at the same time as Cunningham but he was younger then him
