Essays Tagged: "Modern dance"
Alvin Ailey, American Dance in Theater.
ley had a vision of creating a company dedicated to the preservation and enrichment of the American modern dance heritage and the uniqueness of black cultural expression. In 1960, he choreographed Rev ... ack cultural expression. In 1960, he choreographed Revelations, the classic masterpiece of American modern dance based on the religious heritage of his youth. Throughout his lifetime, Mr. Ailey create ...
Subjects: Art Essays
The Development of Modern Dance in the US.
e may be thinking. The body does this for them. This is true to all dance styles, but especially in modern. Because the United States was one of the first audiences to experience modern dance, there w ... ty of time for changes and developments to occur within this type of dance.Like any other art form, modern dance was affected due to and created by current events, attitude changes, popular culture, a ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Performing Arts
Pick a well-known choreographer, who owns his/her own dance company. Attend a performance by this person and create a thesis involving techniques they used.
ere playing serenely in clouds.Often the Stacey Printz Dance Project is classified as a part of the modern dance genre, but, according to Printz, this is a misinterpreted classification of her work. S ... categorization leads people to have certain assumptions as to who she is and what she does. Whereas modern dance is physically demanding of dancers, she feels it is more fitting to classify her work a ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Performing Arts
"Truth Naked"
on together and she sighs as if it were the end of the night and morning had arrived. This was very modern to me because it was dance through simple motions alone and not something someone typically a ... her down and they separate further until he exits the stage. The dances are a mixture of ballet and modern dance and they dance bare feet.He begins the next scene dressed in a Mexican style outfit and ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Performing Arts
"Martha Graham"
icant contributions to what is today called "contemporary" dance. It is believed that her impact on modern dance is equivalent to that of Frank Lloyd Wright's on architecture, Stravinsky's on music, a ... th the others in naming Martha Graham: The Twentieth Century's Most Important Dancer, the Mother of Modern Dance.Graham is not credited for being the first to rebel against the structured and unyieldi ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Performing Arts
Martha Graham
nd a dance technique that has been compared to ballet in its scope and magnitude. Many of the great modern and ballet choreographers have studied the Martha Graham Technique or have been members of he ... mpany.We can say that Martha Graham is The Twentieth Century's Most Important Dancer, the Mother of Modern Dance. She had significant contributions to what is today called "contemporary" dance. Her co ...
Subjects: Art Essays
Pilobolus
is case, was talking about Pilobolus. Not the sun-loving fungus Pilobolus, but the artistic form of modern dance that emerged in 1971. Pilobolus Dance Theatre is a touring company that uses weight-sha ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Performing Arts
Evolution of Modern Dance
ng in 1890 when dancers and choreographers revolted from the stiff and structured Ballet technique, modern dance has evolved a lot over the years. Soon after, in 1905, Isadora Duncan established the f ... s evolved a lot over the years. Soon after, in 1905, Isadora Duncan established the first school of modern dance in Berlin, Germany. Ruth St. Denis, born Ruth Dennis, offered a performance of Radha, h ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Performing Arts
Isadora Duncan: The Foundations of Modern Dance - Shows how Duncan was influention in pionerring modern dance. Works Cited page included.
hose creation of an expressive dance style based on the ancient Greeks laid the foundations for the modern American dancers of the twentieth century. Unlike other dancers of her time, Duncan danced wi ... of the body, soul, and mind. This forward thinking ideology represented not only the foundations of modern dance, but the foundations of the women's movement in the United States. Freedom of dance exp ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Performing Arts
Sigmund Freud
, the world was changing dramatically. Underground salons were built, new architecture was used and modern dance was introduced. If it were not for certain people, the world would not be the way it is ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays