Analyse the choreographic style of Alvin Ailey Alvin Ailey was a famous choreographer/dancer also founder of his own dance company (AAADT). Inspired by many‚ (including Katherine Dunham and Horton) he began dancing at the age of 15 where he found his love for dancing. Ballet‚ jazz and Broadway were the three main dance styles Ailey loved. These styles can also be recognised in nearly all of his choreographies. As choreographic styles identify the constituent features‚ when it comes to Ailey’s work
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the repertoire of major dance companies. It was on a junior high school class trip to the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo‚ he fell in love with concert dance. He became inspired by performances of the Katherine Dunham Dance Company and classes with Lester Horton. Alvin Ailey would go on to create a legacy of versatility and cultural expression. * Alvin Ailey‚ Jr. was born on January 5‚ 1931 in Roger‚ Texas. Ailey’s parents separated when he was five years old leaving his mom to raise him
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Gerald L. Archard November 22‚ 2010 2nd block dance 2 Dance Pioneers‚ Companies‚ and Choreographers Alvin Ailey Alvin Ailey‚ Jr. was an African American modern dancer‚ dance teacher and choreographer‚ who founded the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. Ailey was a gifted creator of dance expressing the African American cultural experience and history. His choreographic works live on in performances by the company he founded. The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater toured extensively and
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Carlo and the Katherine Dunham Dance Company. His formal dance training began with an introduction to Lester Horton’s classes by his friend‚ Carmen de Lavallade. Horton‚ the founder of the first racially integrated dance company in the United States‚ became a mentor for Mr. Ailey as he embarked on his professional career. After Horton’s death in 1953‚ Mr. Ailey became director of the Lester Horton Dance Theater and began to choreograph his own works. In 1958‚ he founded Alvin Ailey American Dance
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Alvin Ailey Alvin Ailey was a dancer‚ choreographer‚ and teacher whose vision and leadership lead him to create one of the major art institutes of our time. The famous Alvin Ailey Dance Theater. A choreographer is a person who creates dance compositions and plans and arranges dance movements and patterns for dances. Movement is a language as rich and expressive as written or spoken language. We understand and use movement language so naturally‚ we are often unaware of the many ways we use it
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Victoria Price and the Scottsboro Trials The Scottsboro case‚ a cause in modern American race relations‚ began when a brawl between whites and blacks took place while riding a freight train through northern Alabama in 1931 (Boyer). When Jackson County Officials stopped the train‚ two white women appeared from the freight train and accused nine black teens of raping them. One of those women was Victoria Price. Victoria Price was born on January 20‚ 1911. She grew up in the poor parts of Huntsville
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“Ang Pagpanulo sa Baybayon sa Poblacion‚ Carles‚ Iloilo”: A Contemporary Dance Anntonette B. Barrios Rogelin B. Bereber Marnie Lynn S. Martirez Floyd John C. Sorongon Chapter I Introduction of the Study Chapter I is divided into six parts‚ namely: (1) Background of the Study‚ (2) Purpose of the Study‚ (3) Significance of the Study‚ (4) Definition of Terms‚ (5) Delimitation of the Study and (6) Summary. Part One‚ Background of the Study‚ discusses the basic information about
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the country with some of the Scottsboro Boys’‚ giving speeches vindicating the young men. Then‚ on June 22‚ 1933‚ Judge Horton made a stunning announcement: Evidence that made clear Bate’s wasn’t raped on the train. Horton set aside the jury verdict and ordered a new trial. It was not until years later that he revealed why: One of the doctors who examined the women pulled Horton aside to say that he couldn’t find signs a rape had occured‚ but was afraid to testify to it on the
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with traditional ballet and her own interpretation of Caribbean dance ("Katherine Dunham Biography."). During this time period‚ as well‚ America saw the formation of the first racially integrated dance company—the Lester Horton Dance Theater‚ founded in 1946 by Horton himself (Legg). Horton technique involves a significant amount of asymmetrical movement of the arms and legs combined while the torso remains still‚ as well as a focus on movement connectivity (Anderson; Legg). As for the German expressionist
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Modern dance is a broad genre of western concert or theatrical dance‚ primarily arising out of both Germany and the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The oversimplification of modern dance’s history often leads to the erroneous explanation that the art form emerged merely as a rejection of‚ or rebellion against classical ballet. An in-depth analysis of the context of the emergence of modern dance reveals that as early as the 1880s‚ a range of socioeconomic changes in both
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