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The modern dancers who emerged
in the 1920’s based their philosophies of modern dance on the following 4 major
premises:
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1. The new is better
than a re-working of the traditional
2. Modernism assumes
the right of personal expression through art.
It is intensely individualistic, and leads to a diversity of styles.
3. Movement has significance
in itself: line, shape, design, rhythm, without literal interpretation.
4. It is the
responsibility of the artist to comment on current, social and political issues.
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Graham and Humphrey were dance faculty at the
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Bennington College Summer
School of the Dance, 1934-1939.
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started in 1934; the first
college dance program in the U.S.
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Bennington College
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Bennington College offered summer classes in
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modern dance technique, composition and
repertory
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1. Greatest contribution to the development of 20th century modern
dance was __ ’s theories on dance technique and composition.
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Humphrey
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Humphrey's
dance technique was based on
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- “fall and
recovery”:
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- an exploration
of the body moving in space
- in particular, the
relationship of the body to gravity.
- the body is
continually resisting or giving into gravity^ who believed in all of this
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Doris Humphrey
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Humphrey belived
- all motion is ..
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“an arc between 2 deaths”.
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- one death is
perfect vertical stillness, resisting gravity;
“the
static death of constant equilibrium”
- the other death is complete
inactivity on the floor; no resistance to gravity; “the dynamic death of extreme movement away
from equilibrium”.
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The physical
expression of Humphrey’s theory: an arc between two death
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3. The philosophical foundation
of Humphrey's theory relates to the work of ..
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Philosopher Nietzsche and his work The Birth of Tragedy.
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Philosopher Nietzsche and his work The Birth of Tragedy. was based on ...
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Apollonian-Dionysian conflict. a
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Apollo represented
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a) static
equilibrium
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Dionysus represented
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a) dynamic movement
away from equilibrium
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4. Doris Humphrey was the first American modern choreographer to
develop theories about ...
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Dance composition.
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What did Humphrey publish?
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The Art of Making Dances was published in 1958.
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