Question 1 2 out of 2 points A pas de deux is a dance for _________. Selected Answer: two Question 2 2 out of 2 points _______________ are what link one movement phrase to another‚ allowing a dance to flow smoothly from section to section. Selected Answer: Transitions Question 3 0 out of 2 points During the Medieval period in Europe‚ the ______________________ dictated much of what happened in art and society. Selected Answer: Aristocracy Question 4 2 out of 2 points
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She has left a huge imprint in the dance world. Despite her parents dismay‚ she continued to chase her dreams which led her to become one of the most important dancers of the 20th century and the mother of modern dance. Her name‚ Martha Graham. Born in Allegheny‚ Pennsylvania on May 11th 1894‚ she was the daughter of a psychiatrist‚ born into a Presbyterian family. Graham had first discovered her interest in dance after her family moved to Santa Barbara‚ California in 1909. In 1911 Martha Graham
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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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revolutionary fervor in Russia. The political climate in the Soviet Union caused many dancers‚ frustrated by their lack of freedom‚ to defect to Western countries‚ particularly the U.S.‚ where they had more independence (among them‚ the famous Mikhail Baryshnikov‚ Rudolph Nureyev‚ and Natalia Makarova). (“Dancing their Way to Freedom” para.
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Andrew Lloyd Webber ’s mega hits Cats‚ Starlight Express‚ Les Miserables‚ and The Phantom of the Opera. Dramas included M. Butterfly‚ Joe Turner ’s Come and Gone‚ and Walk in the Woods. In 1980‚ the American Ballet Theater turned 40 and Mikhail Baryshnikov became director. TV innovations and trends included anti-family sitcoms like Roseanne and Married...with Children; tabloid tv with Geraldo‚ Phil‚ Sally‚ and Oprah; stand-up comics included Gary Shandling‚ Jane Curtin‚ George Carlin‚ Jackie
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Section 1: Identification and evaluation of sources Question: What was the role of ballet in political relations between the United States and the Soviet Union? Source 1: Croft‚ Clare. "Ballet Nations: The New York City Ballet’s 1962 US State Department-Sponsored Tour of the Soviet Union." Theatre Journal 61‚ no. 3 (2009): 421-42. In this study by Clare Croft‚ the political and social factors behind the New York City Ballet’s tour of the Soviet Union is explained in depth and includes multiple
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ANNIE LEIBOVITZ “I sometimes find the surface interesting. To say that the mark of a good portrait is whether you get them or get the soul - I don’t think this is possible all of the time.” -Annie Leibovitz her journey as a photographer... • Annie Leibovitz was born October 2‚ 1949‚ in Waterbury‚ Connecticut. Her mother who is known as Marilyn Leibovitz was a modern dance instructor while her father‚ Sam Leibovitz was a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Air Force. Annie and her family moved
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Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) Summary • The MBTI is a reliable and valid instrument that measures and categorizes your personality and behavior. It is not a test. There are no “right” or “wrong” answers. • Around 1940 a mother-daughter team (Katharine C. Briggs and her daughter Isabel Briggs Myers) developed this instrument to help people understand and use Carl Jung’s theory of psychological type preferences. • Swiss Psychologist‚ Carl Jung‚ (1875 – 1961) theorized that
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What is a Crime? A crime is an offence against the public law. It is an act committed or omitted in violation of a law forbidding or commanding it and for which punishment is imposed upon conviction. Crimes violate the law and order of a society and it negatively affects the social structure and the society’s fundamental values‚ morale and belief system. The concept of Crime can vary from society to Society The crimes are events and actions that are proscribed by the criminal law of a particular
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The Relentless Machine Through satire and irony using her perspective as an Iraqi woman‚ Dunya Mikhail personifies war as a machine‚ rather than the traditional masculine perspective of heroism on the battlefield. In “The War Works Hard” war is never ending; it is relentless and without mercy as it destroys everything in its path‚ leaving an endless generational wake of scars among the civilian victims caught in the zone that the war has chosen. The war scars forever. Wars are often glorified in
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