DANCE 36 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Concert Dance, Modern Dance, American Modernism
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Please study these ideas as they relate to your general understanding of dance modernism. Modernism listed below can you combine with each individual artist. Ailey: exploration of africanist themes within american concert dance, exploration of mexican and latino/a identity that one"s heritage can count as material for a dance can be relevant and reworked. Honing down of choreographic language to its essential qualities or properties experimentation with form and content. Native american dance: native american dance: pueblo dances of new mexico, zuni rainbow dance, pueblo corn dance. Male dances: eagle, buffalo, turtle, deer, corn, rainbow. American modern dance: loie fuller (1862 1928, serpentine dance (1891) - filmed by the lumi re brothers, fire dance (1895) set to richard wagner. Autobiography: fifteen years of a dancer"s life (1913) introduction by anatole france: isadora duncan (1877 1927, marseillaise (1915, march slave (1917, tamara rojo dancing five brahms waltzes in the manner of isadora duncan.
