Personal Narrative: The New Modern Dance
Contemporary The New Modern
It was a grey day in Little Rock Arkansas and I had to meet with the brilliant Stephanie Thibeault. I walked in her office and notice the mood of the room. It felt happy but a sense of seriousness drowned over the recurring energy of happiness. I looked over to the right and saw this chair next to her desk, she greeted me in with a smile and told me to sit down. She had a soft sacked chair next to her desk. “How’s your day” she had said to me while looking at her laptop. “It has been a good day, I just can’t wait to leave next week.” I responded to her. I have been in her office before but coming in with a clear objective made me notice a lot. All of her dance …show more content…
I was out of my territory and didn’t what to do with my body. But once I found that release in my body and allowed myself to feel the breath in the movement everything became easier to me. But of course it was hard at first, I was a hardcore ballet dancer. Since I’ve studied the style of modern dance I can say that we had modern style dances coming up out of the gate that had yet became so popular today. You’ve studied graham as I have but, when I studied graham some of her dancer like Paul Taylor, Merce Cunningham or Alvin Ailey was just breaking into the scene. You guys have it lucky. I learned a lot of Isadora Duncan and Martha. But even then just in today modern dance as taken on a new approach.” She kept talking and everything she said was just …show more content…
Most her of her dancer broke out and now have their own dance techniques. Leaster Horton, His technique is about flat backs, lateral stretches, tilt lines and lunges. Merce Cunningham, having a strong sense of one’s in an integral in Cunningham. Alvin Ailey, who owns one of the biggest black dance theatre companies in the world. Paul Taylor, who wasn’t the best dancer in the Martha Graham Company, his technique was basically two dimensional in appearances but having an emphasis on action rather on shape or line. It’s like dance scribbling. I can go on and on but these are some of the people that help revolutionize dance.
“I can say that now day in today’s youth, modern dance became more of this new contemporary style dance. All in all, they are about the same thing. Contemporary has newer approach on modern dance. Contemporary dance in my opinion requires more flexibility and allows you to do more tricks. Compared to modern when the smallest of things could affect the audience in a big way still, not saying that contemporary dance isn’t good or important. It’s different and I love
It was a grey day in Little Rock Arkansas and I had to meet with the brilliant Stephanie Thibeault. I walked in her office and notice the mood of the room. It felt happy but a sense of seriousness drowned over the recurring energy of happiness. I looked over to the right and saw this chair next to her desk, she greeted me in with a smile and told me to sit down. She had a soft sacked chair next to her desk. “How’s your day” she had said to me while looking at her laptop. “It has been a good day, I just can’t wait to leave next week.” I responded to her. I have been in her office before but coming in with a clear objective made me notice a lot. All of her dance …show more content…
I was out of my territory and didn’t what to do with my body. But once I found that release in my body and allowed myself to feel the breath in the movement everything became easier to me. But of course it was hard at first, I was a hardcore ballet dancer. Since I’ve studied the style of modern dance I can say that we had modern style dances coming up out of the gate that had yet became so popular today. You’ve studied graham as I have but, when I studied graham some of her dancer like Paul Taylor, Merce Cunningham or Alvin Ailey was just breaking into the scene. You guys have it lucky. I learned a lot of Isadora Duncan and Martha. But even then just in today modern dance as taken on a new approach.” She kept talking and everything she said was just …show more content…
Most her of her dancer broke out and now have their own dance techniques. Leaster Horton, His technique is about flat backs, lateral stretches, tilt lines and lunges. Merce Cunningham, having a strong sense of one’s in an integral in Cunningham. Alvin Ailey, who owns one of the biggest black dance theatre companies in the world. Paul Taylor, who wasn’t the best dancer in the Martha Graham Company, his technique was basically two dimensional in appearances but having an emphasis on action rather on shape or line. It’s like dance scribbling. I can go on and on but these are some of the people that help revolutionize dance.
“I can say that now day in today’s youth, modern dance became more of this new contemporary style dance. All in all, they are about the same thing. Contemporary has newer approach on modern dance. Contemporary dance in my opinion requires more flexibility and allows you to do more tricks. Compared to modern when the smallest of things could affect the audience in a big way still, not saying that contemporary dance isn’t good or important. It’s different and I love