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What is the difference between modern dance vs. ballet
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Modern dance=Greater Variety, trunk vs. arms and legs, low level movement, not designed to be pretty, less symmetrical, derived from feeling, gravity is acknowleged.
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What is Modern Dance Music like?
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More contemporary, less important, may be abstract, spoken/silence, dance 1st, music follows
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Choreography for Modern Dance?
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More diverse, reflects choreographer, no universal technique, simple to complex, everchanging, classical-absurd, based on what movements mean, greater demands for audience to interpret.
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Staging and Costumes for Modern Dance?
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Usually simple, could be street clothes, no costume, could take place offstage
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Dance Companies for Modern Dance?
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Smaller in number, bear name of choregrapher, share dancers with other companies, difficutly with financing
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What is Modern Dance?
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Emerged in early 20th century, rebellion against rigidity and artificiality of classical ballet
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What does the term modern dance mean?
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Started in 1927 and meant "dance that reflected contemporary attitudes.
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Who is the mother of modern dance?
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Isadora Duncan-"The Soloists" 1878-1928-----Instinctive Dancer, Stressed Freedom and harmony in movement.
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What did Isadora Duncan give to the modern dance?
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Movement/energy from the solar plexus, acknowledged gravity, rhythms of nature, nobility of man, simple movements, EUROPE
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The Soloists-Founded Denisawn School of Dance
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Ruth ST. Denis----Married Ted Shawn---popularized dance as a performance art---first college dance program
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Doris Humphrey and Charles Weidman----
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Joined Denishawn
technique: fall/recovery, first fully articulated method of teaching for modern dance
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Who Said "Movement Never Lies"
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Martha Graham-Student of Denishawn----Technique: Contraction and Release
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Martha Graham Dance Company----4 Choreographic Stages
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Rebellion, Americana, Greek, Bible
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Graham's three contributions?
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1.First interracial dance company
2.Her modern technique of contraction and release is the most well known and practiced modern technique
3.Singlehandedly made modern dance as important as ballet in less than a century
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The Post-Modernists--Popular One
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Merce Cunningham-complexity to simplest form
Changed from emotion to motion or movement
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