Midterm Flashcards
Loie Fuller
late 1800s- early 1900s, started as a skirt dancer, known for working with fabrics and light, one of the 3 mothers off modern dance, played with electricity, science and the boundaries of being a woman, associated with symbolism, and futurism
DANCE: “Firedance”
Isadora Duncan
late 1800s, known for rejecting the corset, pointe shoes, for bare feet and draped clothes, idealized organic movement, associated with nature, borrowed heavily from the greek sculptures, associated with Dionyso, brought ti all down to the floor
Ruth St. Denis
late 1800s- early 1900s, started as a skirt dancer, wanted to created dance not only for male gaze, “Radha”- famous dance of hers that used inspiration from hinduism that was problematic because she sold concepts from another cultural as her own and used the guise of her character as a way dance sexual movements with out being sexualized herself, married ted Shawn and created the Denishawn dance school together, really sold modern dance to the American public
Ted Shawn
famous male modern dancer, married to Ruth St. Denis, created Denishawn school together, wanted to sell male dance to the public so he created his all male company “Ted Shawn and his Male Dancers”, land he bought to host his company turned in Jacob’s Pillow which is a famous place that hosts a dance festival every year even today, he highlighted masculinity
Serge Diaghilev
Associated with the Ballet Russes, impresario, background in music, had many relationships with people in the Ballet Russe and they were given special treatment and afforded opportunities because of this interest, most notably Vaslav Nijinsky
McHail Fokine
Choreographier for the ballet Russe, Choreographed Les Sylphides, had issues with classical ballet, dance should have a purpos, not to be pretty
DANCE: “Patrucah”
Vaslav Nijinsky
dancer/choreographer for Ballet Russe,
DANCE: “Rite of Spring”, “Afternoon of the Fawn”, “Jeux”
Leonide massine
Dancer Diagahlev hired to replace Nijinsky after he was fired for marrying a wealthy ballerina, choreographed “parade”
Bronislava Nijinska
Nijinskys sister, choreographed “LesNoces”, “Les Biches”, “Le Train Bleu”, dancer, feminist
George Balanchine
Last choreographer of Ballet Russell, choreographed “Apollo”, loved Petipa, Russian dancer, didn’t care for narrative in his dances, had many ballerina muses that he was inspired by but also he married many of them- problematic
Debussy
Musician, did music for “Afternoon of the Faun”
Edna Guy
Famous modern dancer of color that danced at denishawn school
Delsarte
French man who taught body language for actors and public speaking, influenced Duncan and her work
Nietzsche
Philosopher that inspired Duncan
Steele MacKaye
Apart of American Delsarte system, actor, playwright, producer, “natural acting” instructor
Genivieve stebbins
Student of MacKaye, used breathing exercises, gymnastics, statue posing, pantomime
Barton mumaw
Ted shawns partner (romantically)
Marie taglioni
Famous ballerina that popularized pointe work
Anna Pavlova
Famous ballerina danced at ballet russe
Tamara karsavina
Famous ballerina who danced at the ballet russe
Petipa
Famous choreographer, associated with classical period in ballet, choreographed “Giselle” “sleeping beauty” “nutcracker” etc.
Stravinsky
Hella famous composer, did music for petroushka, rite of spring, les noces, apollo,
Apollo
Associated with light, sculpture, movement
Roerich
Did the set and costumes for rite of spring
