Modern

Question 1

Francois Delsarte

Answer 1

pantomime

Question 2

Mod v. Ballet

Answer 2

Mod was barefoot
focus on articulating the spine (contract release)
parallel feet and turned out
evolved from pantomime

Question 3

Isadora duncan

Answer 3

Mother of modern dance
nature inspired movement, greek inspired
running, hopping, swaying, inside herself , set taught

Question 4

Ruth St. Denis

Answer 4

Denishawn co founder.
not formally trained
concieved spiritual 
1st are american company 
1st generation training ground for modern generation

Question 5

Martha Graham

Answer 5

Contract Release movement technique
major influence of later gen.
Martha Graham Dance Co. (Oldest american dance co)
former denishawn student
Lamentation-trademark piece
HOW: nervous, sharp, zigzag, emphatic, expressive and dsiciplined, replaed ballet tech with breath contract and release but not relax
WHAT: Dance plays bases on Greek Myths, concert dances
WHOY: female first, now both, must train with her to be in co.

Question 6

Louis Horse

Answer 6

musical worked with graham

Question 7

Doris Humphrey

Answer 7

technique-fall and recovery
signif- dance edu, one of greatest teacher of choreo as fine art
founded Humphrey-Weidman Co.
wrote book, “the art of making dance”

Question 8

Charles Weidman

Answer 8

known for: frenetic pantomime, way musical chore and revues
How: moves fragmented, mercurial. comic, tempo. rhythm changes and dynamic changes
studied at Denishawn

Question 9

Rudolf Van Laban

Answer 9

Ballet master first, educator, and dance theorist
Movement has 2 parts-incoming and outgoing
Centrifugal movement and peripheral movement
Significance: Labanotation- a dance notation system on a vertical scale, effort qualities

Question 10

Mary Wigman

Answer 10

Student of Laban
an expressionist, emotion based dance
HOW: space used like water, rooted to earth, dark, brooding themes, death, war, witches, heavy, tense, primitive, percussive, fatalistic, abstract, stark, creeping
COSTUME: simple, platforms, asian influence
Lights and gestures dramatic, no music or just precision
MADE: full length dance cycles, WITCH DANCE, founded Wigman school

Question 11

Hanya Holm

Answer 11

SIGNIF; brought mod german dance to US, via Wigman’s school
not as dark as Wigman, but nature based, grounded, earthy, expressive, used Laban too, plasticity in dance
CHOREO: My Fair Lady, Kiss Me Kate
Strong education influence
HOW: Lyrical, barefoot, flexibileback and torso, light, gestural

Question 12

Jose Limon

Answer 12

Greatest male american dancer in his field. Dancer choreographer
TECH: high carriage of torso, arms, and head, dramatic chore, hopeful, compassionate,
Moor’s PAvane, Orfeo, cultrual embassador for US

Question 13

Helen Tamaris

Answer 13

Deal meanifngul with problems
concern fro aud to motivate them
Russian