Halprin’s 1975 improvisational piece‚ Darkside Dance‚ make it is easy to understand the amount of despair Halprin went through upon hearing that she had been diagnosed with colon cancer a second time. In an interview‚ Halprin described her feelings regarding this diagnosis when she said‚ “For those of you who have cancer or have had cancer‚ you know how life threatening it can be. You’re unprepared suddenly to face the possibility of dying.” Darkside Dance was the way in which Halprin released built
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Graham commonly know as the ‘mother of modern dance’ Martha graham: The Mother Of Modern Dance (Biography)‚ was born in Allegheny‚ Pennsylvania in 1894. Graham’s father was a doctor who used physical movement to remedy nervous disorders. His work inspired Martha to incorporate her own style‚ she had also grown up watching ballet and the combination of both had developed her love for the arts. She eventually went to study dance in L.A where she joined the dance school ‘Denishaw’. Graham then went on to
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Drama Day 11 Improvisation and Movement After we performed our performance‚ we notice some minor but key error to improve on. A prominent error that I noticed in our performance was that some of the timing was off through out the entirety of the play. Also‚ I also noticed that we still did not know all our lines completely especially during the singing parts. To work on eliminating these mistakes‚ we realized more practice and rehearsal was just needed. Through practicing and rehearsing outside
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‘WHAT MOTVATES PEOPLE TO DANCE AND CREATE DANCES?’ WORD COUNT: 1‚854 The aim of this essay is to discuss dance; the focus will be on what motivates people to dance and create them. Firstly examining the work of a professional company‚ ‘Frantic Assembly’ and a choreographer‚ ‘Martha Graham’ and exploring their work‚ before moving onto why importance of dance to human need and culture and why people are influenced to do dance. Finally the essay will look at how dance is a crucial aspect
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presented in Baker-Sennett‚ J. (1995). Improvisation‚ planificacion y el proceso creative (Improvisation‚ planning‚ and the creative process)‚ Infancia y aprendizaje‚ 70‚ 111-126. We would like to thank Barbara Rogoff for helpful suggestions on this paper and for her guidance and collaborative support. 197 I98 BAKER-SENNETT & MATUSOV The authors review a wide range of contemporary research on improvisational classrooms and on teaching as improvisation. For example‚ they argue that experienced
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medium sized stage with low lighting set and slow classical violin music‚ which gave me a intriguing feeling. There are two dancers in this performance‚ a male and female that are dressed in minimal clothing that exposes both of their backsides. The dance starts off with the male dancer sitting on the floor with his head positioned in between his knees and the female not more than a foot away‚ laying flat on the floor face up with her legs bent towards the ceiling in a lifeless fashion. The male dancer
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1- In classical ballet dance video‚ the ballerina uses pointe method technique ‚different turnout and high extensions‚ hoping on one foot on the tip of the pointe. During the dance‚ for most of the times the spine of the ballerina remains straight. Same moves were executed by both the artists in a symmetrical way. Characteristics of pas de deux were apparent as both the dancers were performing‚ which helps us recognize better about classical ballet. Classical ballet always have some sort of story
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Why and How? The question above is one of major debate. Is dance a sport or an art? Is a dancer an artist or an athlete? From what I have researched‚ there is no correct or incorrect answer to this question. So‚ I will give support for each side. Sport: Some say that dance is a sport because it requires stamina‚ agility‚ strength‚ and endurance. This is true‚ because there are numerous other sports who require the
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scholarship. Later after reading books about dance in the university library‚ he took up dance training under modern dance greats like Martha Graham and José Limón and joined the Graham Dance Company as a soloist in 1955. He also worked with choreographers Merce Cunningham and George Balanchine. Dance became his all-consuming passion. He henceforth transferred to The Juilliard School in New York City and choreographed works of his own‚ starting his own dance company in the mid-1950s. Paul Taylor‚ one
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Modern dance is the rebellious half of ballet‚ which dancers use to express freedom and disregard all restrictions and send a message through their body and emotions. Historical dancers disregarded ballet etiquettes and created their own way of expressing socio economic‚ cultural and ethnic factors that were going on around the time modern dance involved. One of those dancer is Pina Bausch‚ a leading influence in the era of modern dance‚ translates her childhood growing up in Germany during war and
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