Dance is an ancient art form and is found across world cultures. Ballet traveled to the United States after both World War 1 and World War II and has impacted the dance culture in America ever since. The United States gave ballet the unique opportunity to flourish when much of Europe was greatly impacted by war. Many choreographers and performers were given the chance to come to America to teach‚ start companies or go on tours and developed their own styles and methods of ballet. Perhaps the most
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Bangarra Dance Company Ochres: Red vs. Black Culture and its‚ at times‚ inconceivable differences is an expression of concern for our society today. Silencing and elapsing of cultures and traditions seems to have escalated immensely. However‚ for the sake of our future‚ there is strong importance in the need of these traditions endurance. Therefore‚ contemporary dance has the aptitude in defying these unjust cultural judgments. We see countless contemporary choreographers‚ today‚ merging momentous
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location for the professionalization of American performance art‚ understanding the complicated negotiation of gendered and racial identities on the Broadway stage provides important background to the development of an American identity in concert dance through the rest of the century. As you watch these videos notice how musicals come to represent American ideals such as abundance‚ opportunity‚ pluralism‚ optimism. 2.1 Give My Regards to Broadway: 2.1.1 Some of the images from the Follies look like
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Limon Dance Company is the nation’s oldest modern-dance company. Jose Limon established Limon in 1946. In the beginning the company only survived by word of mouth but eventually grew to be one of the Nations best and well-known Modern Dance Company’s. The Limon Dance Company survived with many of its original dance’s intact‚ these dances preserve the legacy of mid-century choreographers and showed the Company’s talent. The three pieces that the Limon Company performed were Champion‚ The Winged‚
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‘WHAT MOTVATES PEOPLE TO DANCE AND CREATE DANCES?’ WORD COUNT: 1‚854 The aim of this essay is to discuss dance; the focus will be on what motivates people to dance and create them. Firstly examining the work of a professional company‚ ‘Frantic Assembly’ and a choreographer‚ ‘Martha Graham’ and exploring their work‚ before moving onto why importance of dance to human need and culture and why people are influenced to do dance. Finally the essay will look at how dance is a crucial aspect
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According to the Collins Dictionary‚ modern dance is “a form of dance as a performing art‚ variously developed in the 20th century by Isadora Duncan‚ Ruth St. Denis‚ Martha Graham‚ etc.‚ and characterized by bodily movements and rhythms less formalized than in classical ballet and less firmly bound to predetermined musical form.” Although this may have still been fairly new to American audiences‚ worldwide‚ the art form had developed a long history of accepted tradition by the turn of the 20th century
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scholarship. Later after reading books about dance in the university library‚ he took up dance training under modern dance greats like Martha Graham and José Limón and joined the Graham Dance Company as a soloist in 1955. He also worked with choreographers Merce Cunningham and George Balanchine. Dance became his all-consuming passion. He henceforth transferred to The Juilliard School in New York City and choreographed works of his own‚ starting his own dance company in the mid-1950s. Paul Taylor‚ one
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She has left a huge imprint in the dance world. Despite her parents dismay‚ she continued to chase her dreams which led her to become one of the most important dancers of the 20th century and the mother of modern dance. Her name‚ Martha Graham. Born in Allegheny‚ Pennsylvania on May 11th 1894‚ she was the daughter of a psychiatrist‚ born into a Presbyterian family. Graham had first discovered her interest in dance after her family moved to Santa Barbara‚ California in 1909. In 1911 Martha Graham
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American Dance Theater June 11th 2012 “Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater is based in New York City and is personally my favorite dance company‚ their choreography is just incredible and I love to watch them perform.” The company was founded in 1958; this was incredible because of the intense prejudice taking place at this time‚ not only were they a black company but they created a unique new kind- of dance mixing together for the first time; ballet‚ traditional African American dance‚ and
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One of the first things that our class learned was the western definition of dance‚ which is that dance is representational. Aristotle believed that “art is imitation of nature” and the 19th c. ballets agreed. To represent nature‚ ballets used gestures and mime to tell their stories‚ with each movement correlating to a similar real world action. Fast forward a couple hundred years to the 1940s‚ choreographer Jerome Robbins followed the 19th c. ballet tradition. Robbins placed an emphasis on
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