DANC101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Mary Wigman, Martha Graham, Modern Dance
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Week 4; modern dance; an explosion of dance creativity western dance cannon. * modern; deliberate divergence from the past, defied the conservatism, habits and traditions. discovery of the body and dance. * history repeats therefore lineage is quite fluid. * early 1900"s dance modernism is born, photos are good for reference. * nijinsky 1912- born in 1890 died in 1950. * turning point when he met surge opera and art exhibitions. * edited to have a sense of continuity. * sense of the shapes of the body. * interested in brining together the performing arts and visual arts (mainly presented russian. * visual artists as designers of the sets. * the way he shaped the bodies, two dimensional freeze like form of the bodies. * mary wigman, hexentanz, germany, choreographer and dance instructor. * rudolph labarn, educator and theoretician ( mary was his student)
