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The Expressionists
The Expressionists
based on Intro to Modern Dance Techniques by Joshua Legg
Isadora Duncan
Plastique Animee
- was influenced by Delsarte's ideas
- hailed Delsarte as "the master of all principles of flexibility, and lightness of the body"
- found ballet unnatural
- expressional movement from the solar plexus
What is Plastique Animée?
Plastique Animée is a visual analysis of a piece of music using the body as the vehicle. Literally, the French loosely translates into supple, harmonious, living movement.
http://dalcrozeschooloftherockies.com/Plastique_Animee.php
The Culture and form of the body is practiced today in two ways: by gymnastics and by dancing. - Duncan
Emile Jaques-Dalcroze
Ruth St.Denis and Ted Shawn= Denishawn Company in 1915
Style is compared to Ballets Russes
St. Denis' choreography had influences by Eastern religions and Oriental Art
Shawn's style was influenced by Western social dance forms
Feed the growth of modern dance for artists such as Graham, Horst, Humphrey, Lawrence, Weidman
Guest artist would include social dance forms such as Hula and Japenese sword fighting
Jaques-Dalcroze was a composer whose work was becoming more popular.
He studied the relationship between the brain and movement and proposed that they grew together. He determined that rhythm was not only a mental experience but was also physical.
In the decades following the American Civil War, tremendous global innovations were taking place. Disposable income allowed for leisure activities and the perception of a healthy flexible body as a good thing.
"The championship of physical education prepared the way for modern dance and gymnastics" - Jack Anderson
François Delsarte 20th Century (1811-1871)
Let's Move!!
- French voice teacher who developed a theory of gesture and posture that he taught in the beginning of 1839
- Influenced Isadora Duncan, Ruth St. Denis, and Ted Shawn
- When his philosophy reached the U.S.A, unfortunatly his style took on the reputation for having a gymnastic quality but the truth is he used gymnastics as a strenghing form
- Breath and radiation outward to every gesture, even through the use of the eyes
- The rise of positive assertion and fall of negative which he called attitude
- Oppositions, parellelisms, and successions related to the bodies center of moving outward and inward or balanced.