chapter 6 video questions Flashcards
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Depending upon their medium, artists begin in different ways. What are they? What are they drawing their inspiration from?
They can use their background, music, movements, traditions, or their surroundings. Inspired to create their choreography. The dance maker’s medium is the “human body,” like other artists; for example, a painter needs a blank canvas and a brush, and a sculptor needs fresh clay, rock, stone, and metal.
What is the first habit we acquire?
How to control our movements, no matter what they are, walking, crawling, or controlling an arm, we learn how to control our movements first.
Why did Twyla Tharp begin to choreograph?
She wanted to move, and since no one could tolerate her, so had to make up her dance if she wanted to dance. There was no cultural reason behind her want, but she still found it a priority.
Who is Twyla Tharp, and what is her medium?
She is one of America’s foremost choreographers and uses the medium of movement in her choreography.
What is the difference between dance today and 100 years ago?
100 years ago dance was shaped around court dances that did not push traditional boundaries and had the purpose of enforcing order ,while today dance pushes lots of boundaries and is not about order as much anymore.
Who lead the dance revolution in the 20th Century?
Big-time choreographers reshaped dance by leading the dance revolution such as Garth Fagan.
According to Garth Fagan, what did 20th-century modern choreographers try to put in dance?
Use more of passion and the pains experienced to see the feeling through the shapes and dynamics made by the choreographers.
According to Sardono Kusumo, what is it to dance?
He believes that to dance is to study human feelings and he uses life as his inspiration.
According to Eiko and Koma, how does the contemporary choreographer approach dance?
They approach dance by defining how the mind and body works allowing the dancer to dig deep into their own bodies and mind in the contemporary world. They tend to push boundaries and use experiences to shape their choreography.
What did Isadora Duncan introduce to the public?
She introduce that dance is art and a form of self expression through movement which helped dance gain more value than what it before when it was basically held on the same level of strippers.
How did Duncan see dance?
As a political statement for women that could not move freely, but saw how dance had free movement and free flowing clothing. Because of this see saw dance as the art of liberation.
What was Isadora Duncan’s real contribution to the art of dance?
She constructed dance into a new form that was less formal as it was traditionally as she made up the first modern dance language.
What did Anna Pavlova attribute to Isadora Duncan?
That she brought freedom to everyone in Russia as she performed in her own way of dance. Dance had changed from the center of classical ballet and evolved.
What happened at the premier of ‘Rite of Spring” and why?
Because of the less classical approach to the show that had a unqiue spin of dance and music the audience begun to riot
How did most modern artists of the 20’s and 30’s feel about their work?
Their work was more put into political ideas and the time of war for the period along with the harsh truths to express feelings and what was happening the world. Many such as Graham felt as though they were individualists that had to find their own language and the world was against them.
What did Martha Graham’s father tell her about movement?
He told his daughter that “movements never lies.” This is validated through his work of being a physiatrist, and he analyzed his patients movements to help them.
What is a contraction in the Graham technique?
Using the weight of the core against the floor through movements that were emphasized and not ignoring the gravity used in the weight of the body.
What is it that, as a Graham dancer, you do not try to deny?
The weight of the body through gravitiy was not denied and was used to space the floor as aid.
What became the imperative for the modern dancer?
The idea of choreographers making up their own language through the dance they put out which each one being unqiue to the certain choreographer
Who is Katherine Dunham and what was the result of her background?
She had the roots of African culture which shaped her in modern dance. She was a dancer and anthropologist that studied social and ritual dance at the Caribbean that helped her expand the idea of modern dance.
What is significant about the contribution of Katherine Dunham?
Connected her backgrounds and made a new fusion of a dance form. She found a culture present that was outside of what her background looked like as she was raised in cuture. She particulary added to the dance vocabulary for the accented torso instead of the normal straight torso seen in dance. the articulated torso
How does Twyla Tharp view classical ballet?
She sees classical ballet as archaic and far in the past sense it does not have contemporary usefulness but yet is still beautiful.
What does African-based dance do with the body?
It plays one part of the body against the other that was turned to be brought into modern choreography by Dunham
What were Balanchine contributions and deletions to classical ballet?
He used the ballet vocabulary in a tangible way, but still captures the essence of contemporary time. He basically combined both vocabularies.
