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Dance
Undergraduate 1
10/08/2009

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Term
Catherine de Medici
Definition

"grandmother of ballet"

brought singing, poetry, dancing events to france

Term
Ballet Comique de la Reine (1581)
Definition

*no stage

*6 hours long

*French monarchy

*audience is above dancers

*Queen Louise participates

*Recitations and songs

*Plot: French monarchy: king & queen are most important part of society

*formations are important

Term
Marriage of Queen Louise to King Henry III
Definition
*First attempt at choreographed movement
Term

Symbol:

Triangle

Definition
Justice
Term

Symbol:

3 circles inside each other

Definition
Perfect truth
Term

Symbol:

Three circles connected like olympic rings

Definition
Truth Known
Term

King Louis XIV

First public performance

&

When he stopped dancing

Definition

age 7

&

age 32

Term

King Louis XIV

Nickname

Definition

The Sun King

Planets revolve around sun; center of the universe

Term
Ballet de la Nuit
Definition
demonstrating power over lower class
Term
Academie Royale de Musique
Definition

1669

Now serves as Pans Opera

1st one was Academie Royale de danse

Term
Jules Cardinal Mazarin
Definition

Louis XIV's tutor

dancing lessons > grammar

Term
Pierre Beauchamps
Definition

*Dance master at Academie Royale de danse

 

Term

King Louis XIV

Ornamentation

&

Importance of dance in his life

Definition

*Ornamentation is very important to him

*He required courtmembers to be skilled in dancing.  If they missed a step, they would be ranked lower, maybe kicked out of apartments

Term
faux pas
Definition
"missed step"
Term
Proscenium Stage
Definition

*Separated dancers from audience

*The stage was raked

*Revealed more of the dancers' bodies - royalty sat in a box above the audience

 

Term
5 positions of feet
Definition

*Pierre Beauchamps

*1st-5th positions

Term
Turnout
Definition

Pierre Beauchamps

it came from fencing which was popular at the time

Term
Marie Taglioni
Definition

*"Christian ballerina"

*Light, angelic

Term
Fanny Elssler
Definition

*more masculine than Marie

*very lively on stage

*gypsy-like

Term
Romantic Tutu
Definition

very long

when gas lamps were in use, it caused some problems with the long skirts catching on fire

Term

Romantic Ballet

Themes

Definition

1. Relationship of Human and Spirit world

2. Exotic Locations

3. Rural/Peasant life

Term

Romantic Ballet

Layout

Definition

1st act - Daylight

2nd act - nighttime (often in a forest)

*Romantic ballet ended in tragedy

Term
Giselle
Definition
Story of a peasant girl who dances to her death b/c of unrequited love - she falls in love with higher class man who is already betrothed
Term
Russian Ballet Tutu
Definition

*shortened tutu

*show off the legs - show off the work they did

Term
Russian Ballet: Layout
Definition
lots of snipits instead of 2 exact parts
Term
Marius Petipa
Definition
went to Russia in 1847 and stayed for 60 years
Term

Russian Ballet:

Dancers =

Definition

Dancers = imperial servants

Guys wouldn't go into military; dance = military

Term
Moscow Academy
Definition
Flamboyant and passionate
Term
St. Petersburg Academy
Definition
Coldly academic
Term
3 Categories of dancers formed:
Definition

1. classical dancer - purest performer (highest level)

2. Character dancer - folk

3. demi-character dancer - combines the other 2 styles

Term
Mikhail Fokine- first ballet story
Definition

*Prime dancer in Russia

He sees Isadora dancing and writes a dance for her.  He submits it to a guy and says that "french ballet forms are stale and expressive dancing should be what is on stage." His manifesto was rejected, but he was still permitted to choreograph. In this first ballet, it had Greek themes - 1908 - Une nuit d'Egypte.  Dancers had bare feet and you see the profile of the dancer.  He can't fully express what he wants to, so he moves to Paris.

Term
Serge Diaghilev
Definition

Director/Producer of Ballet Russes

Not a dancer, musician, or visual artist

*he invites popular artists/musicians to participate

Term
Sheherazod
Definition

*Group orgy and massacre onstage

 

Term
Scandal b/w choreographers in Ballet Russes
Definition
*Vaslav Nijinsky is a student of Fokine.  He is soloing and has a relationship with Diaghilev. Fokine is jealous and leaves so Nijinsky is head choreographer
Term
Afternoon of a Faun (1912)
Definition

*adolescent sex

*Faun is a young boy

Term
The Rights of Spring (1913)
Definition

*Music was stravinski and choreographed by Nijinsky

*People flipped out - opening night, a riot broke out in the audience - fist fights - Stravinski runs out of theater and Nijinski stays

*After that, the show is only shown once or twice

Term

Ballet Russes on tour

(Nijinsky)

Definition

*Nijinsky met a dancer and fell in love

*they get married

*Diaghilev is jealous, so he fires Nijinski

*Diaghilev goes crazy and spends the rest of his life in an asylum - he dreams of having his own company w/o being run by higher power

Term
George Balanchine
Definition

*Russian

*Worked for Ballet Russes before moving to US

*raised in Russian Ballet schools - left home @ 10 to train in Imperial Ballet - life is hard in Russia at this point

*After Ballet Russes, he forms his own company in 1933 (fulfilling Diaghilev's dream)

*Opens the School of American Ballet in NYC (1934)

*In experience with Broadway, he puts power thrusts in his ballets

Term
The ballet "look"
Definition

*George Balanchine is responsible for it

*Tall, thin, young women w/ long legs and small heads

Term
"The Four Temperaments"
Definition

*They perform in ballet "workout outfit" (black leotard, pink tights, maybe a belt, no tutu)

*No story or real thematic material - it is all just movement - "Do not show emotion onstage; be cold"

Term

Social Dance Elements

&

Cultural Reflections

Definition

SDE- avoid body contact --> CR- Teasing Enticement

SDE- gendered steps --> CR- set ideas about gender

SDE- Team Dances --> CR- value of extended family

*Team dances - highly choreographed steps - work together

*Women move w/ hips side to side

*Men flap their knees in athletic way

*Women ask men to dance

Term

Social Dancing

Muslims in Fez, Morocco

SDE- Social dance elemens

CR- Cultural Reflections

Definition

SDE- all female dance parties --> CR- Koran's teachings on women's roles

SDE- Athletic dancing for men --> CR- emphasis on male power

SDE- "Belly Dancing" for male entertainment --> CR- European influences in N. Africa

Term

Social Dancing

Western/European dancing: the Waltz

SDE- Social dance elements

CR- Cultural reflections

Definition

SDE- in male/female couples --> CR- value marriage

SDE- Upright/poised --> CR- aristocratic values

SDE- Fixed steps --> CR- educated public

Term
Social dance was influenced by which two cultures?
Definition
African and European
Term

African Dance Aesthetic

vs

19th century European Dance Aesthetic

Definition

1. Improv//fixed steps

2. Polycentrism//Center is in one place (torso)

3. Polyrhythmic movement//rhythms only in feet

4. Juxtaposition of mood/attitude//composure

5. Value of youth//Value of the Court (look elegant)

6. Idea of being cool//Touch

7. Asymmetry and Vocalization//coordination of the group

Term
Sailors on slave ships were instructed to whip the enslaved Africans in order to keep them moving and exercising.  What was this called?
Definition
Dancing the Slaves
Term
The ___ is the name of a popular dance that exhibited the fusion of african and european dancing.  When a dancer won a contest doing this dance, they won a dessert.
Definition
Cake Walk
Term
The ___ is a dance in which Irish Step Movements were combined with African upper body accents
Definition
Jig
Term
What is the Bonja and why was it used?
Definition
It was a hollowed out gourd that was strung = banjo.  It was used because drums were illegal
Term
Slave/ European "copying dance"
Definition
*Slaves are permitted to dance Saturday night to banjo and fiddle.  They would watch whites dance and copy them, but add their own african flare.  The masters would see the slaves' version and imitate it.
Term
William Henry Lane
Definition

"Master Juba"

"Patting Juba" - social dance

Minstrel player

Died at 27 b/c of harsh performance schedule

He could copy ANY dance and add his own flare to it

Term
Blackface Minstrelsy
Definition

Daddy "Jim Crow" Rice

"Blacking up"

White and Black Mistrel teams

Started in 1940s and by 1970s, blacks were doing it

Term

Daddy "Jim Crow" Rice

 

Definition

Thomas D Rice (white)

1930s - mimicked crippled, black neighbor

started blackface minstrelsy as entertainment form

Vaudeville Era - Variety acts-->main act= minstrelsy

Term
1910-1920 America Goes "Dance Mad"
Definition

*Turkey Trot and the Tango banned by pope in 1914

*Vermon and Irene Castle attmept to tame dances

 

Term
Vermon and Irene Castle
Definition

*They started a school in New York in 1914 to teach "proper dancing"

*Attempted to "refine" social dances of the day - LOTS of "dont's"

Term
Savoy Ballroom/ Lindy Hop
Definition

*1926- opens in Harlem - integrated club

*Battle of the Bands

*Cat's Corner = best dancers

*Whitey's Lindy Hoppers - he was a bouncer and saw the dancers in Cat's Corner - started a group that travelled

*Breakaway steps - significant in combo w/ african and european - two dancers dance together, split up and dance alone then come back

*Frieda Washington/Freddy Manning create air steps

*New Dance floor every 3 years

*Lindy Hop- term Lindy comes from Charles Lindbergh's flight over Atlantic

Term
Tommy the Clown
Definition

South central, LA

"clowning"-->crumping-->stripper dance

Term
Chris Cunningham
Definition

hip-hop video parody

"Window Licker"

 

Term
b-boy and b-girl
Definition
boys and girls dancing hip hop
Term
DJ Cool Herc
Definition

*Clive Campbell

*Grandfather of hip hop

*Moved to Bronx from Jamaica at 12

*dance halls - Jamaican - homemade sound systems

*Break beat - funk and soul era - people danced to break beat

*Extended break (1973) - scratching 2 turntables - vocalize which began rap

Term
Popmaster Fable
Definition

*Latino

*1970s - lots of gang violence

*dancers use streets as their stage

Term
Elements of hip hop
Definition

*DJ - sound designer, musician

*MC - poet, rapper

*Graffiti Artist - Painter, visual artist

*B-boy/b-girl - dancer

Term
Afrika Bambaataa (Bam)
Definition

*Kevin Donovan

*battles w/ Herc and grandmaster flash

*1973 co-opts Savage 7/Black Spades and creates Zulu Nation

*Leader of savage 7/Black Spades

 

Term
Zulu Nation
Definition

*Afrika Bambaataa co-opts Savage 7/Black Spades

*Belief in one God called by many names

*Belief in the Bible and the Qur'ah

*Inclusive - anti-racism

Term
Zulu Kings
Definition

*The first b-boy crew

*B=Break, beat, or Bronx

*Zulu Queens were quick to follow

Term
"Hip Hop" term established 
Definition

*1980s DJ Afrika Bambaataa

*"Rappers Delight" by Sugarhill Gang

*"Hip Hop y'all and ya don't stop"

Term
Rock Steady Crew
Definition
NYC 1977
Term
West Coast Funk Era (1970s and 80s) = James Brown
Definition

*Don Campbell ("Campbellrock")

~Creates lockin' 1970

~Dances on Soul Train

*Sam "Boogaloo Sam" Soloman

~Creates poppin' 

~Establishes the Electric Boogaloos (1977)

 

Term
Electric Boogaloos
Definition

*Created by "Boogaloo Sam"

*West coast funk dance group

*Soul train performances

Term
Poppin' vs Lockin'
Definition

*Poppin' - ability of dancer to pop the muscles to the beat

*Lockin' - you move and then lock and an move then lock, etc.

Term
1984 - Hip Hop Media
Definition

*Rock Steady crew and the Electric Boogloos are cast in movies

*"Break Dancing" - a term created by the media

*Ken Swift creates head spin

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