Essays Tagged: "choreographer"
A biography on Serge Diaghilev. Goes into his life, dances, performers, and includes a bibliography.
of Imperial Theaters. (Mara, 44)When Diaghilev worked for Imperial Ballet, Michel Fokine was a main choreographer. Some of the main dancers with the company were Anna Pavlova, Tamara Karsavina, Vaslav ... of Spring, or Le Sacre du Printemps. This ballet premiered May 29, in 1913. Vaslaw Nijinsky was the choreographer, and Igor Stravinsky wrote the music. Maria Piltz was one of the main dancers. The bal ...
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.
rwhelmed the audience's expectations with six dynamic pieces, validating her credibility as a woman choreographer. Printz put to rest the notion that female choreographers are less able than men to af ... hard work and dedication shone through, proving that women can work in the same dance world as men choreographers.The first piece performed by the company was titled "Evolute", and began with dim lig ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Performing Arts
Latin Dance School
d no job and just a handful of English phrases. A multi-talented individual, Marcia is a performer, choreographer, teacher, promoter, businesswoman, marketing administrator, manager, talent scout, MC, ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Performing Arts
Martha Graham
Martha Graham: A Dancer's Lifeby Russell FreedmanMartha Graham(1894-1991) was a dancer, choreographer, and teacher for more than 70 years, and during that time she changed the landscape of ... ue 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 her company.We can s ... ber, William Schuman, and Gian Carlo Menotti. Her company was the training ground for future modern choreographers such as Merce Cunningham, Paul Taylor and Twyla Tharp. She created roles for classica ...
Subjects: Art Essays
Dance Criticism
he refused to view and write about the dance piece "Still/Here," by the black, gay and HIV positive choreographer Bill Jones. According to her article "Discussing the Undiscussable," Croce objects to ... audience would marry the identity of a particular cultural or political issue with the dance piece/choreographer. Croce saw this as a collective representation of both. In doing so, she went too far ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Performing Arts
"Winterbranch" in Contexts
set design by Cunningham, Paired, a duet for Cunningham and Viola Farber, a German born dancer and choreographer. She was a founding member of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company but who them went on ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Performing Arts
Creativity and Me: The Creativity in Dance
they have to imagine and visualise the dance as they listen to the beats and rhythms of the music.A choreographer has to start choreographing a dance on a blank slate as there is no fixed way how the ... there is no fixed way how the music can be danced to. It is heavily influenced by the style of the choreographer and also how the choreographer interprets the music to be like. Often, masterpieces ar ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Performing Arts
Dance and Flow
erformance. My international background in dance includes the work “The Look of Love” for choreographer Ann Reinking, “Ballet Hispanico,” “On Broadway” and “Broadway ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Performing Arts