History of Modern Dance

Муниципальное Автономное Общеобразовательное учреждение.
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Dance code
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The history of Modern Dance
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Выполнила ученица 11 ГЯК класса
Гофман Ксения
Руководитель Кабанова О. Н.

Пермь 2011

Contents

Оглавление
Introduction 3
Short history of Dance 4
Ballet in France: 16th - 17th century AD 6
18th and 19th centuries: from court dancing to Romanticism 8
Early 20th century: from ballet to contemporary dance 10
The Beginnings of Modern Dance 11
Early Dancers in the United States 11
German Contributions 12
The Second Generation in America 14
Later Dancers 16
The Combining of Forms 18
Conclusion 19
Bibliography 20

Introduction

Esthetic questions of   choreography in our special literature still represent a little studied area. It is because of an old tradition the choreographic art unfairly is considered narrow, especially specific, separated from a wide range of the world outlook problems facing our esthetic science. Meanwhile, rich and diverse practice of ballet art, don't drop out it of sphere of our esthetics, could have for it great value.
Our ballet art is connected with innovative searches of art development of an objective reality, its essential problems enter into the general channel of problems of an esthetics.
Being art originally international, dance pereno-sitsja from the country in the country, constantly being enriched and developing. The best products of classics of a choreography of Dobervalja, Perro, Petipa, Ivanov, Fokina continue to live, for many decades, and sometimes and for the whole century, enduring the ingenious founders. The Russian choreographic art, addressing to tops of choreographic thought of the past, selects for itself all not coming, capable to development, to perfection of art possibilities of dancing language. Today our ballet art, more than ever, endures the rapid growth period, safely updates the figurative poetics, the is figurative-emotional... [continues]

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