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Dance

Timeline

by: Lily Abraha

Ballet

- Originated in the 15th century

- Beginnings of Ballet can be credited to King Luis XIV of France

- Ballets Russes, created by Diaghilev, was the most influential Ballet company in the 20th century

- George Balanchine, the father of American Ballet, founded New York City Ballet

- One of their famous works include the Nutcracker

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Ballet

Racism in Ballet

Example: Chloé Lopes Gomes, a French performer, was "asked to wear white make up so she would 'blend in' with the other dancers."

Neo-Classical Ballet

Additional Ballet Info

"Apollo was the first neoclassical ballet choreographed by George Balanchine which was about Apollo, the greek god of music".

Contemporary Ballet

- Movements were more flexible and looser.

- Mixed with modern dance techniques

Modern

- Developed in the 20th century

- Started as a rebellion against the rigidity of ballet

- Modern dance has more freedom to it and flow

- Tries to focus on the dancer own interpretations rather than the structured steps of the dance

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Modern

3 Eras of Modern Dance

3 Eras of Modern Dance

1880

- Isadora Duncan

  • Mother of Modern Dance
  • Free form dancing

- Ruth Dennis and Ted Shawn

  • Married to each other
  • Founded Denishawn which gave way to other influential dancers

1946

1923

- Martha Graham

  • One of Denishawn's famous performers
  • identified a new system of movement she called contraction and release

- Dorris Humphry

  • Created the fall and recovery technique
  • formed the Humphrey- Weidman Studio with Charles Weidman

- Jose Limon

  • shifted perceptions of the male dancer
  • Represented the US as an ambassador abroad
  • inducted into the National Museum of Dance’s Hall of Fame in New York.

Post-Modern

- Became popular in the 1960's

- "All movement was dance expression and any person was a dancer regardless of training"

- Movement between time and space

- Chance dance: created by Merce Cunningham, had selected and refined movements but randomly structured

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Post

Modern

Other Post-Modern Dancers

Other Post-Modern Artists

Alwin Nicholais

  • Merged dance with technology
  • Focused on decentralization
  • "his dancers, they were relieved of their own forms and, hence, allowed to identify with whatever they portrayed

Trisha Brown

  • One of the founders of Judson Dance Theater
  • Experimented with various ways people could move
  • Known for minimalism and accumulation

Paul Taylor

  • Had his own dance company called Paul Taylor Dance Company
  • Pushed the boundaries of dance
  • Used many different movements but focused on action rather than shape

Contemporary Dance

- Developed in the mid 20th century

- Combines different genres including:

  • modern, jazz, lyrical, and ballet

- Uses fluid dance movements and gravity

- Aims to connect the mind and the body

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Contemporary Dance

Hip-Hop

- First seen in the 1970s in the South Bronx of New York City

- Predominantly used by African Americans when it first originated

- Street dance, according to Jon Boogz, is a strategy that many use to cope with the misery of their surroundings

- Camille Brown says that we dance together "to say 'we speak a common language. We exist and we are free'".

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Hip-Hop

Sources

Sources

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmodern_dance

- https://www.bbc.com/news/av/entertainment-arts-55339078

- https://artsintegration.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Modern.pdf

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrkUxglHvzA

- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Alwin-Nikolais

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpCBMwAweDI&t=28s

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13fPhE5p4jk

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