Modern Dance
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The document summarizes the history and development of modern dance. It discusses early dance forms including religion-based and entertainment dance. It then profiles three influential modern dancers - Meredith Monk, Isadora Duncan, and Martha Graham. It notes that Monk combines her vocals with dance, Duncan was inspired by nature, and Graham focused on human emotions and conditions through techniques like contraction and release. The document also provides brief biographies of each dancer and examples of their works through embedded YouTube videos.
Modern Dance
- 1. Modern Dance
- 2. Early Dance ~Religion Based ~Entertainment ~Structured
- 4. Modern Dancers Meredith Monk By Genna Dankis Isadora Duncan By Gabby Donley Martha Graham By Milan Hayes
- 5. ~Born in 1942 ~Training in Dalcroze Eurhythmics, ~Crossover Artist Meredith Monk
- 7. Inspiration ~Delcroze Eurhythmic ~Bessie Schoenberg ~Ruth Lloyd ~Shambhala Mediation
- 8. Awards2012 Doris Duke Artist Musical America's 2012 Composer of the Year 2011 NPR's 50 Great Voices Yoko Ono Lennon Courage Award for the Arts 2010 American Music Center Letter of Distinction 2008 Premio Arlecchino d'Oro 2008, Mantova Feslytival, Ita
- 10. ~Childhood ~Mothers Influence ~Influence on Others Isadora Duncan
- 11. ~Feelings toward Ballet ~Whats she thought dance should be ~Early career/Small shows/Daly company ~Separation from small career to popular career ~Influence on others/dance schools Isadora Duncan
- 12. ~Classsical Music ~Costumes/Tunics ~Stage Set-Up ~Nature influence Isadora's Techniques & Styles
- 14. ~Denishawn school in Los Angles Ruth St. Denis~ translation Ted Shawn ~First debut in New York in 1926 Martha Graham
- 15. Martha Graham Own language of movements Basic human movements Human emotions Insght on human conditions
- 16. Martha Graham ~Focus on center of the body ~Coordination between breathing and movement ~Dances had emotional and spiritual themes ~Contraction and release ~Focus on the movement of the pelvis
- 17. Inspiration ~Greek mythology, the early American frontier, Emily Dickinson poems, Joan of arc . ~Interested in the way people used their bodies ~Movement never lies
- 19. Modern Dance Today ~Modern, Lyrical, and Contemporary ~More Structured ~Emotion Driven ~Best Picture You Can Make
- 22. Quiz ~Which dancer focus on nature? ~Which dancer focus on human condition and contraction and release? ~Which dancer focus on combining her vocals with her dance?