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(39 cards)
Push Comes to Shove date?
Jan 1,1976
Push Comes to Shove dancer?
Mikhail Nikolayevich Baryshnikov
Push Comes to Shove choreographer?
Twyla Tharp
Push Comes to Shove company?
American Ballet Theatre
First Laban notion dance?
The Green Table
Rite of Spring choreographer?
Vaslav Nijinsky
Rite of Spring company?
Ballets Russes
Rite of Spring director?
Sergei Diaghilev
Rite of Spring composer?
Igor Stravinsky
Rite of Spring date?
May 29, 1913
Rite of Spring story?
Dance to death
Rite of Spring location?
Paris
Rite of Spring type of company?
Wondering company & creativity freedom
Rite of Spring importance?
Asymmetry, difficult rhythms, Harsh movement, repetition, controversy
Paeolithic and Neolithic dance functions?
communication(no language), rituals, unify groups, means of expression.
Ancient Period dance developments?
become conscious of movement, rituals become more structured;development in language, writing arg, gov’t and religion
Who is Dionysus?
God of fertility later God of wine
Dionysus dance?
get drunk and dance mania
Greek dance of War?
Phyrric
Purpose of Phyrric?
Practice battle
what did Epidaurus/Hellenistic theatre do?
could see feet, started using whole body, professional dancing started
Rite of Spring 1975 choregrapher?
Pina bausch
Rite of Spring 1975 company?
Wuppertal Tanztheatre
Rite of Spring 1975 composer?
Igor Stravinsky