Dance History - Final Exam questions
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Alvin Ailey - ANS ✔- Next Generation Modern Dance (rebellious men of the 50s)
- popularized modern dance and revolutionized African-American participation in 20th century
dance
George Balanchine - ANS ✔- American Ballet
- took techniques from ballet and fused it with other styles of dance (Africanist elements,
modern, etc.)
- known for his musicality (expressed music with dance)
Pina Bausch - ANS ✔- Post Modern Dance
- developed Tanztheatre ("dance theatre")
- believed dances employed visually rich production styles
- believed expression > form
Trisha Brown - ANS ✔- Post Modern Dance
- studied with Louis Horst
- founding member of Judson Dance Theatre
- cofounded Grand Union
- created works that attempted to "defy gravity"; used harnesses and ropes to allow dancers to
walk up and down walls
Josephine Baker - ANS ✔- first black woman to star in a motion picture
- contributed to the civil rights movement
, - erotic dancing (was almost fully naked)
- banana dance
Merce Cunningham - ANS ✔- Next Generation Modern Dance (rebellious men of the 50s)
- choreographic method: based on chance
- studied at Bennington and with Graham
- "dancing should be propelled by dancing"
- changed concepts of time and space in dance (clock time rather than counts); exact timing
- influenced by "Zen Art" (natural, concrete, secular things) and by Eastern ideologies
- upper body had a more modern feel while lower body had a more ballet feel
Laura Dean - ANS ✔- Post Modern Dance
- believed dance and music embodied rhythm and energy
- repetition for the ecstasy it induces
Katherine Dunham - ANS ✔- Traditional American Modern (Pioneer)
- anthropologist and dancer
- received a grant (Rosenwald Fellowship) to go to Haiti and study dance
- isolation, move each part of your body separately
- "Voodoo" movements; pelvic movement
Martha Graham - ANS ✔- Traditional American Modern Dance (Pioneer)
- "Rewrote" history as told by a woman rather than a man
- Included feminist ideas in her pieces: Woman was strong
- Used ensemble as a unit: danced in unison
- Long-Woolens: Danced in tubes similar to sacks
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Alvin Ailey - ANS ✔- Next Generation Modern Dance (rebellious men of the 50s)
- popularized modern dance and revolutionized African-American participation in 20th century
dance
George Balanchine - ANS ✔- American Ballet
- took techniques from ballet and fused it with other styles of dance (Africanist elements,
modern, etc.)
- known for his musicality (expressed music with dance)
Pina Bausch - ANS ✔- Post Modern Dance
- developed Tanztheatre ("dance theatre")
- believed dances employed visually rich production styles
- believed expression > form
Trisha Brown - ANS ✔- Post Modern Dance
- studied with Louis Horst
- founding member of Judson Dance Theatre
- cofounded Grand Union
- created works that attempted to "defy gravity"; used harnesses and ropes to allow dancers to
walk up and down walls
Josephine Baker - ANS ✔- first black woman to star in a motion picture
- contributed to the civil rights movement
, - erotic dancing (was almost fully naked)
- banana dance
Merce Cunningham - ANS ✔- Next Generation Modern Dance (rebellious men of the 50s)
- choreographic method: based on chance
- studied at Bennington and with Graham
- "dancing should be propelled by dancing"
- changed concepts of time and space in dance (clock time rather than counts); exact timing
- influenced by "Zen Art" (natural, concrete, secular things) and by Eastern ideologies
- upper body had a more modern feel while lower body had a more ballet feel
Laura Dean - ANS ✔- Post Modern Dance
- believed dance and music embodied rhythm and energy
- repetition for the ecstasy it induces
Katherine Dunham - ANS ✔- Traditional American Modern (Pioneer)
- anthropologist and dancer
- received a grant (Rosenwald Fellowship) to go to Haiti and study dance
- isolation, move each part of your body separately
- "Voodoo" movements; pelvic movement
Martha Graham - ANS ✔- Traditional American Modern Dance (Pioneer)
- "Rewrote" history as told by a woman rather than a man
- Included feminist ideas in her pieces: Woman was strong
- Used ensemble as a unit: danced in unison
- Long-Woolens: Danced in tubes similar to sacks
