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Interest in Nature, Greece, Nietzsche, inspired revolutionary work.
-Music: (classical) Chopin, Beethoven, Brahms
"she danced the soul of the music"
Costume/Body/Set:Tunics, bare-legged (under tunic). Moved with lightness, fairylike,
Movement: light, wind&wave, embodying the universal chorus, archetypal universal woman, emanating from solar plexus
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| Chemist and choreographer who embodied Art Noveau |
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Orientalist choreographer who believed in dance revealing the sacred information of the body. Often had elaborate sets and costumes
Ritualized movements (begin-middle-end)
Influences-skirt dancing, exoticism, Delsarte politics, christian science
Costume/Body: disguising/transforming costumes, props&sets |
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Created work that showcased the athleticism of men
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| Created a system to analyze and notate movement of the body |
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| Created a system that related posture & gesture to spiritual/emotional states |
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| Inspired by Laban and German expressionism |
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| Member of New Dance Group and Martha Graham Dance Company |
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| Technique based in fall and recovery |
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| Political work based in humor and satire |
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| Hinged emotion and narrative on formalist technique |
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| Partner to Martha Graham, Themes changed as he was introduced to her work |
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| ¿ Hexan tanz/ Witch dance ? |
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| What social/political/historical events influenced The New Dance League? |
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Women's Suffrage
The depression
WWII |
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| Martha Graham mad a technique based off of the actions of |
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| In one articulate sentence, explain why Martha Grahams new technique of contraction and release was revolutionary |
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| The technique focused on the core and allowed for greater movement from the area like the bent leg and lean backstance. |
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| List Three tenets or Goals of modern dancers and their work from the 1930's |
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1)Activism-Rebel against social norms/make statement
2)Shake shit up-make people think (differently)
3)empower women and equalize social standards |
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| List two things/People/techniques that early moderns had to rebel against: |
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1) women as objects
2)Ballet trying to go against gravity |
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| In one articulate sentence (for each) state two specific differences, of the many we discussed, between the work of Anna Sokolow and Martha Graham |
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Anna's work was about political&external influences and music was not a central part of her pieces.
Martha's work was influenced by inner-emotions/feelings and music represented these feelings. |
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| Discuss how Loie Fuller contributed to a new way of seeing the female body, shifting the gaze, and ultimately empowered woman through her choice of costuming. Describe constuming and illuminate how it is transformative. |
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| Loie Fuller used costumes to transform the body, but mainly the female form so that it was no longer objectified. Costumes abstracted the female form through imitations of nature (metamorphosis) |
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| Discuss how Martha Graham contributed to a new way of seeing the female body, shifting the gaze, and ultimately empowered woman through her choice of costuming. Describe constuming and illuminate how it is transformative. |
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| Martha Graham had costumes representative of the messages of her dance. ~(elaborate on this it was just on last years test)~ |
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| Discuss how Isadora Duncan contributed to a new way of seeing the female body, shifting the gaze, and ultimately empowered woman through her choice of costuming. Describe constuming and illuminate how it is transformative. |
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| Duncans costume freed women from what they was seen as socially suitable for them to wear. Her light tunics with her barefeet broke barriers for womens expression. ~(Again Elaborate lazyass)~ |
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| Discuss how Ruth St. Denis contributed to a new way of seeing the female body, shifting the gaze, and ultimately empowered woman through her choice of costuming. Describe constuming and illuminate how it is transformative. |
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~(I dunno if these will be on the test but her ya go)~
Ruth assumed the spirit of the character and dressed accordingly. Her garb always represented the character she was portraying. |
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