uniqueness of music. Because most of the composers Cage worked with in California were only interested in creating traditional‚ classical compositions‚ Cage sought inspiration in other art mediums. His biggest inspiration was dancer and choreographer‚ Merce Cunningham. Together‚ the two artistic minds collaborated to create memorable performances. They both realized that music and dance do not have to be mutually exclusive elements of art. The music doesn’t have to follow the dance and the dance doesn’t have
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Modern dance has developed to what it is today through the contributions of many famous artists. The choreographers mentioned are and were some of the most influential people that defined what modern dance is today. Modern dance is developed when a choreographer wants to move away from the restricting rules of classical ballet and the strong ideals of what dance should be. Students often take preference to what style of dance they like‚ either ballet because of the security of the positions‚ steps
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The postmodernism era started in the 1960’s and continues today. Artists are characterized as such because of their diverse orientation on a number of disciplines‚ like philosophy‚ music‚ art‚ and architecture. These are people who have consciously made an effort to move outside of mainstream of modernist music and challenged the current establishment‚ by doing so they created new opportunities in the music world. Postmodernist music is purposely different from other styles from the past making it
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(Anderson 5). This definition puts emphasis on the rigid structure and body control required to successfully produce a piece of choreography‚ an idea not uncommon in the ballet community (Conoley-Paladino). Like Balanchine‚ modern dance icon Merce Cunningham defined dance choreography as “an art in space and time.” However‚ in contrast‚ he stated that “the object of the dancer is to obliterate” that art‚ drawing on the importance of
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ballet. Contemporary dance focuses on floorwork‚ using gravity to pull dancers down to the floor. Contemporary dance can be performed to many different styles of music. Pioneers of contemporary dance include Isadora Duncan‚ Martha Graham and Merce Cunningham. Discuss the specific character you will be portraying in this dance. What quality of movement will you have to perform on stage to create this character?
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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 of the influential
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Муниципальное Автономное Общеобразовательное учреждение. “Лицей № 2” г. Пермь Dance code Or The history of Modern Dance (Реферат) Выполнила ученица 11 ГЯК класса Гофман Ксения Руководитель Кабанова О. Н. Пермь 2011 Contents Оглавление Introduction 3 Short history of Dance 4 Ballet in France: 16th - 17th century AD 6 18th and 19th centuries: from court dancing to Romanticism 8 Early 20th century: from ballet to contemporary dance 10 The Beginnings of Modern Dance
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and Sendai‚ Japan‚ then returned to New York in 1953 (Klacsmann‚ 2009; Rosenthal‚ 2004). Johns attended innumerable art exhibitions in New York and became friends with the artist Robert Rauschenberg‚ the composer John Cage and the choreographer Merce Cunningham (Rosenthal‚ 2004). Jasper Johns was influenced by Marcel Duchamp‚ who was well-known for his “readymades” – a series of commonplace objects presented as complete artworks. In the opinion of Wallace (2002)‚ Johns’ painting “According to What”
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Art can be expressed in many ways. Some people express it with the stroke of a brush or note of a song. Martha Graham‚ however‚ was one of those people who expressed art through dance. Martha was born on May 11‚ 1894. She was born into a wealthy family in Pittsburgh‚ or at the time‚ Allegheny‚ Pennsylvania. Her father’s name was George Graham and her mother’s name was Jane Beers Graham. Her father specialized with nervous disorders‚ which always made her curious on how the human body moves and how
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Early life Graham was born in Allegheny City‚ which today is part of Pittsburgh‚ Pennsylvania‚ in 1894. Her father George Graham was what in the Victorian era was known as an "alienist"‚ a practitioner of an early form of psychiatry. The Grahams were strict Presbyterians. Dr. Graham was a third generation American of Irish descent. Her mother Jane Beers was a second generation American of Irish and Scotch-Irish descent and was also a sixth generation descendant of Puritan Miles Standish. In the
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