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    follow the ethical rules of the parent company or the country of operation? by Katherine Xin and Wang Haijie This document is authorized for use only by yucheng he in ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR ONLINE (SUMMER 2013) taught by Randall Dunham from June 2013 to August 2013. For the exclusive use of Y. HE For article reprints call 800-988-0886 or 617-783-7500‚ or visit hbr.org Experience Case Study Katherine Xin is a professor of management‚ an associate dean at China Europe International

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    Pass the Parcel – Revelations Revision Use the following questions as forfeits for a pass the parcel revision game. What is Ailey’s typical dance-music relationship? Name two dance techniques (created by other choreographers) which are fundamental in Ailey’s choreographic style. What is the chief choreographic device used by Alvin Ailey in Revelations? Hermit songs was created by Alvin Ailey after Revelations. It was a solo for Ailey based on 8th-13th century poems by Irish monks. What

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    American Music and Culture: Jazz Dance   Jazz dance‚ is defined as any dance to jazz accompaniments‚ composed of a profusion of forms. Jazz dance paralleled the birth and spread of jazz itself from roots in black American society and was popularized in ballrooms by the big bands of the swing era (1930s and ’40s). It radically altered the style of American and European stage and social dance in the 20th century. The term is sometimes used more narrowly to describe popular stage dance (except tap

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    born in Rogers‚ Texas on January 5‚ 1931 and moved to Los Angeles‚ California at the age of twelve. There‚ on a junior high school class trip to the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo‚ he fell in love with concert dance. Inspired by performances of the Katherine Dunham Dance Company and classes with Lester Horton‚ Mr Ailey began his formal dance training. It was with Mr. Horton‚

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    the big band jazz clubs while the musicians practiced for their evening shows. He was also drawn to the theater marquees announcing upcoming shows like Billie Holliday‚ Duke Ellington‚ and others.One day he spotted a handbill with a photo of Katherine Dunham‚ a dancer costumed in layers and layers of ruffles. At the time‚ Dunham’s dance troupe was the only group of dancers touring and performing dances from Africa‚ Haiti‚ and Latin America. Ailey’s curiosity was so intense that he found himself peeking

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    Dance History II‚ Mid-Semester Exam Study Questions Prepare answers for all of the questions below. On the exam you will answer 8 questions: 4 that I select and 4 that you select = 8 total. The length of each answer should be one-half page or more. 1. How did the Ballet Russe under the Russian director‚ Diaghilev‚ break from the ballet traditions of Russian ballet in the early 20th century? What were the existing ballet traditions at the end of the 19th century in Russia and what new innovations

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    Discuss the influences which affected the development of the movement style of a practitioner from Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre. You should refer to appropriate examples from Revelations to support your answer. Alvin Ailey’s movement style has been shaped and moulded constantly as he moved through his life. Whether it was personal experiences or key dancers he worked with‚ each individual story is told through his works and tells the story of Ailey’s life. Ailey’s early experiences had

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    dyscarsia. Alvin Ailey first started out doing high school football and gymnastics. As he was growing up‚ he became interested in Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire‚ so he soon began taking tap dancing at a neighbor’s house. Ailey was once a student of Katherine Dunham. Ailey’s pursuit in dancing grew when a close friend took him to stop by a modern dance school ran by Lester Horton- Horton’s school was the first that accepted all races. Ailey had grown somewhat self-conscious as he wondered what opportunities

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    Haiti and conduct research on conjure in 1937. Her work was significant because she was able to break into the secret societies and expose their use of drugs to create the Vodun trance‚ also a subject of study for fellow dancer/anthropologist Katherine Dunham who was then at the University of Chicago. In 1954 Hurston was unable to sell her fiction works but was assigned to cover a small town murder trial for the Pittsburgh Courier of a racist white doctor who was murdered by Ruby McCollum‚ the prosperous

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    was not the central of his mother life. At this stage of his life his established himself with the Lester Horton Dance Theatre and his work and life consumed him. Alvin took dance classes in the style and method of choreographer and dancer Katherine Dunham‚ from a student of hers. However he was not really comfortable with this style of dance that involved him abandoning oneself to sensuous full body movement. In 1949 Ailey became serious about dance with his friend Carmen de Lavallade who introduced

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