DANCE 36 Study Guide - Summer 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Modern Dance, Moors, Modernism
DANCE 36
MIDTERM EXAM
STUDY GUIDE
Fall 2018
Week 1
Recorded lecture #1
-Some coreogrphers develop entire languages of mvmnt and codefied techniques that can be taught an
dlearned and passed down generations like what Arthur grahm has done
-other artists are corographic artists and make dances
-most dance artists have expression or political agenda
-more societies try to regulate the body, use the body to use ppl to conform
-most dancers front and center deal with political agenda
-body is dressed differently depending on diff societal standards
-modernism deals with the issue of newness, anti establishment, most modern dance artists reject what
came before them
-louie fowler, first modern dance artist, made her career in paris France, is American, she rejected ballet,
the story of ballet and the fragility and how men are supposed to be chivalruous
~the break from ballet is the first defining element of modernism, and this is the source of the
anti establishment
~(SECOND PRINCIPLE OF MODERN DANCE)if you break with the past, then you have to replace
it, so what comes next is individuality of expression
-soe people hae usic of the uscles here dace coes aturally to the, soe ppl it does’t
come as easy to them, hence coreagrophy
(THIRD PRINCIPLE OF MODERN DANCE)-shock value, dance requires energy and power, to some extent
professional dance belongs to the young, shock is the ability to comment on what has come before
MODERNISM
1)new lang of body
2)break with tradition
3)shock value
4)working with original composers
5)building a technique/style
6)gives redefitniion to gender roles
7) notion of the use of technology such as lighting
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-modernism in dance studies the culture of the artist (slice of life), making dances about people they
know (common ppl)
-to initiate revolution in dance, you have to build a technique/style
-bodies are a moving mobile archive
-musicians usually always made more money than dancers in the past
-notion of the use of technology such as lighting
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Read: Susan Au. Ballet & Modern Dance, pp. 7 – 43; 61-86,133-155,126-129,103-119,87-103,119-133
Rebekah Kowal. How To Do Things with Dance. Performing Change in Postwar America, pp. 1 – 18,19-
86,117-151,
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Document Summary
Some coreogrphers develop entire languages of mvmnt and codefied techniques that can be taught an dlearned and passed down generations like what arthur grahm has done. Other artists are corographic artists and make dances. Most dance artists have expression or political agenda. More societies try to regulate the body, use the body to use ppl to conform. Most dancers front and center deal with political agenda. Body is dressed differently depending on diff societal standards. Modernism deals with the issue of newness, anti establishment, most modern dance artists reject what came before them. Louie fowler, first modern dance artist, made her career in paris france, is american, she rejected ballet, the story of ballet and the fragility and how men are supposed to be chivalruous. ~the break from ballet is the first defining element of modernism, and this is the source of the anti establishment.
