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Phil.&Hist. of Dance
Notecards and Practice test
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Dance
Undergraduate 3
11/04/2010

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Isadora Duncan
Definition
Interest in Nature, Greece, Nietzsche, inspired revolutionary work.
-Music: (classical) Chopin, Beethoven, Brahms
"she danced the soul of the music"
Costume/Body/Set:Tunics, bare-legged (under tunic). Moved with lightness, fairylike,
Movement: light, wind&wave, embodying the universal chorus, archetypal universal woman, emanating from solar plexus

Set: the carpet square?
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Loie Fuller
Definition
Chemist and choreographer who embodied Art Noveau
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Ruth St. Denis
Definition
Orientalist choreographer who believed in dance revealing the sacred information of the body. Often had elaborate sets and costumes
Ritualized movements (begin-middle-end)
Influences-skirt dancing, exoticism, Delsarte politics, christian science
Costume/Body: disguising/transforming costumes, props&sets
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Ted Shawn
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Created work that showcased the athleticism of men
Mechanized movement
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Rudolf Laban
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Created a system to analyze and notate movement of the body
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Francois Delsarte
Definition
Created a system that related posture & gesture to spiritual/emotional states
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Mary Wigman
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Inspired by Laban and German expressionism
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Anna Sokolow
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Member of New Dance Group and Martha Graham Dance Company
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Doris Humphrey
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Technique based in fall and recovery
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Charles Weidman
Definition
Political work based in humor and satire
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Martha Graham
Definition
Hinged emotion and narrative on formalist technique
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Erick Hawkins
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Partner to Martha Graham, Themes changed as he was introduced to her work
Term
¿ Five Brahms Waltzes ?
Definition
Isadora Duncan
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¿ The Incense ?
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Ruth St. Denis
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¿ Labor Symphony ?
Definition
Ted Shawn
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¿ Hexan tanz/ Witch dance ?
Definition
Mary Wigman
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¿ Fire Dance ?
Definition
Loie Fuller
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¿ New Dance ?
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Doris Humphrey
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¿ Errand into the Maze ?
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Martha Graham
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¿ Dreams ?
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Anna Sokolow
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What social/political/historical events influenced The New Dance League?
Definition
Women's Suffrage
The depression
WWII
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Martha Graham mad a technique based off of the actions of
Definition
Contraction and Release
Term
In one articulate sentence, explain why Martha Grahams new technique of contraction and release was revolutionary
Definition
The technique focused on the core and allowed for greater movement from the area like the bent leg and lean backstance.
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List Three tenets or Goals of modern dancers and their work from the 1930's
Definition
1)Activism-Rebel against social norms/make statement
2)Shake shit up-make people think (differently)
3)empower women and equalize social standards
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List two things/People/techniques that early moderns had to rebel against:
Definition
1) women as objects
2)Ballet trying to go against gravity
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In one articulate sentence (for each) state two specific differences, of the many we discussed, between the work of Anna Sokolow and Martha Graham
Definition
Anna's work was about political&external influences and music was not a central part of her pieces.

Martha's work was influenced by inner-emotions/feelings and music represented these feelings.
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Discuss how Loie Fuller contributed to a new way of seeing the female body, shifting the gaze, and ultimately empowered woman through her choice of costuming. Describe constuming and illuminate how it is transformative.
Definition
Loie Fuller used costumes to transform the body, but mainly the female form so that it was no longer objectified. Costumes abstracted the female form through imitations of nature (metamorphosis)
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Discuss how Martha Graham contributed to a new way of seeing the female body, shifting the gaze, and ultimately empowered woman through her choice of costuming. Describe constuming and illuminate how it is transformative.
Definition
Martha Graham had costumes representative of the messages of her dance. ~(elaborate on this it was just on last years test)~
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Discuss how Isadora Duncan contributed to a new way of seeing the female body, shifting the gaze, and ultimately empowered woman through her choice of costuming. Describe constuming and illuminate how it is transformative.
Definition
Duncans costume freed women from what they was seen as socially suitable for them to wear. Her light tunics with her barefeet broke barriers for womens expression. ~(Again Elaborate lazyass)~
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Discuss how Ruth St. Denis contributed to a new way of seeing the female body, shifting the gaze, and ultimately empowered woman through her choice of costuming. Describe constuming and illuminate how it is transformative.
Definition
~(I dunno if these will be on the test but her ya go)~
Ruth assumed the spirit of the character and dressed accordingly. Her garb always represented the character she was portraying.
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