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First generation Modern Dancers
Isadora DuncanRuth St. DenisTed Shawn Rudoph Laban
Second generation Modern Dancers
Martha GrahamDoris Humphrey
Charles WeidmanErick Hawkins Mary Wigman
Hanya Holm
Third generation Modern dancers
Jose Limon Merce Cunningham Paul Taylor Alwin Nikolais Murray Lewis
Post Modernism
Twyla Tharp PilobolusJudson Church
Lester Horton
Alvin Ailey
Bella Lewitzky
Modern Dance Family Tree
Kurt Joos
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Isadora DuncanAmerican revolutionary artist
Saw ballet as sterile, restrictive and non-relevant to political environment of the day
Developed an expressive form of free danceWore Greeks tunics and discarded corset
Danced barefootInspired by Greek classical art and nature
Danced to music by great composersProvocative
Charismatic performer
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Ruth St. DenisPopular performer of vaudeville and stage
Married Ted ShawnFounded the Denishawn company and school
Trained the 2nd generation of infulential modern dancersInspired by ad for Egyptian cigarettes
Style of Egypt and the OrientFluid movement style
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Ted ShawnStarted out to be a minister.
Married Ruth St. Denis and became her dancing partner.Founded Denishawn company and school.
Founded Jacobʼs Pillow and Shawnʼs Men Dancers.Included all styles of dance at his summer school for dance.
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Francois Delsarte
Emile Jacques Dalcroze
Delsarte-creator of pantomime systemDalcroze-creative of musical rhythmic analysis system
Influenced early modern dancers
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Rudolph LabanGerman educator and theoretician
Created Labanotation-dance notation systemTeacher of Mary Wigman
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Mary Wigman
German ExpressionistWitch Dance
Rooted to earthDark, brooding themes of death, war, witches
Heavy and tensePrimitive percussion
Fatalistic abstract outlook
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Kurt JoosGerman choreographer
The Green TablePortrait of war, dance of death
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Hanya HolmShe brought german modern dance to America.
She went to NY in 1931 to open a Mary Wigman schoolShe later renamed it the Hanya Holm School.
Choreographed for Broadway-”Kiss Me Kate” and “My Fair Lady”
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Marie RambertThe Diaghilev of England
Mentored Antony Tudor and Frederick AshtonDirected the Rambert Ballet
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Ninette de Valois
Founded Sadlerʼs Wells Ballet later Royal BalletChoreographed “The Rakeʼs Progress” and “Checkmate”
Developed the Royal Academy of DancingMentored Margot Fonteyn
Established the English style of refinement, precision, and good taste
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Antony TudorStarted with Rambert Ballet
Hugh Laing and Nora Kaye principal dancersPsychological ballets of ordinary people
Characters reveal themselves in precise gesturesChoreographed “Lilac Garden” and “Pillar of Fire”
Moved to America and choreographed for ABT
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Frederick AshtonArtistic director of Royal Ballet
English choreographer with reserved tasteMonotones-Plotless ballet for 3 dancers in a moonscape setting“La Fille Mal Gardee”-a recreation of an historical comedic ballet
Petipa of Great Britain
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Agnes de MilleAmerican themes
RodeoOklahoma
American character folk idiomFirst to make dance an integral part of a musical
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George Balanchine
Neoclassic styleBallet is woman
New York City Ballet, Broadway, HollywoodSuzanne Farrell
Ultra thin dancersLong legs and extremely flexible
Plotless balletsEmphasized music and its structure
Spatial groupings simpleDancers linked together holding hands, forming chains
Flashy, brilliant leg workSpeed
Used parallel positionsFeet and hands flexed
StreamlinedBallets: Apollo, Slaughter on 10th Ave., Prodigal Son, Serenade, The Four
Temperaments
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Lincoln KirsteinAmerican impresario
Founded New York City Ballet with George BalanchineCompared to Diaghilev
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Jerome Robbins
Fancy Free, West Side Story Broadway and Film
ABT and New York City BalletWorks in a variety of styles: ballet, jazz, plotless, modern dramatic
Carefully structuredWarm, live people
Significant human gesturesConveys emotions
NeoromanticistSuited gesture to the theme
simple in patternLess to dazzle and more to move viewer with human portrait or emotional fantasy
Compared to Fokineʼs vision of dance
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Doris HumphreyCharles Weidman
Jose LimonFall and recovery
The Art of Making DancesMusic visualizations
Falling away from and returning to equilibriumDances: New Dance, The Shakers, With My Red Fires, Theatre Piece,
Water Study
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Jose LimonThe Moorʼs Pavane
Collaborated with and mentored by Doris HumphreyDeep respect for structure
His technique is known by the proud, high carriage of torso, arms and headUsed rondo (ABABA) form
Lament for Ignacio Sanchez Mejia
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Martha GrahamDanced until 70 years old
Choreographed until 90 years oldLouis Horst was musical director and lover
Contraction and releaseUsed contemporary composers and designers
PsychodramasGreek tragedies
Movement is tenseLimbs held in position
Turned in legsFlexed feet
Landscape of memory or emotionNo literal continuity of plot
Dances: Lamentation, Primitive Mysteries, Letter to the World, Appalachian Spring, Night Journey, Clytemnestra, Cave of the Heart
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Lester HortonThe BelovedEclectic style
Bella LewiztkyEthnic styles
Strong, versatile dancers without mannerismsGood at turns, falls, in and out of floor into air
Coordination and elevation exercises
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Alvin AileyRevelations
First interracial companyHorton technique
Negro spirituals, jazz, modern, ethnicIsolations of hips and torso
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Katherine Dunham
Tropical RevuesAfro-Caribbean style
Made jazz respectablePH.D in anthropology
Established own techniqueTook black dance out of entertainment and a more dignified art
Crouched with spine flexible and looseStrong attack
Movements from pelvic regionShimmies, shakes and trembles
Improvisation
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Pearl PrimusStudied at Densishawn
Dancer, Choreographer, and AnthropologistCreated dances about the black experience
Strange Fruit-a dance to a poem about a lynching
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Bill “Bojangles” Robinson Legendary tap star in Hollywood films and on the stage.
Known for his elegant style and his “stair” dance.Danced with Shirley Temple in many of her films.
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The Nicholas BrothersHarold and Fayard appeared at the Cotton Club and in Hollywood Films.
Known for their athletic tap style.Appeared in “Stormy Weather” and “Down Argentine Way”.
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Merce Cunningham
Collaborated with musician, John CageChance method
AbstractMovement for movementʼs sake
Silence or sound scores of loud volume and noiseAttention to details of movement and its variations.
Ballet base, modern styleCreated “Events” for specific performance spaces using chance methods and
movement from his previous works.Danced for Martha Graham
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Paul TaylorDanced in Martha Grahamʼs company
Dubbed the Naughty Boy of Dance by Graham“Esplanade”, one of his early works, based on a girl running for a bus
Creates dances of humor and about the dark side of humanity
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Alwin NikolaisStudied with Hanya Holm
Collaborated with Murray LouisMultimedia artist
Created movement, sets, lighting, sound score, costumesTheatre pieces
OriginalDancers are concealed behind masks, materials, tubes
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Judson ChurchHotbed of avant-garde dance in 1960ʼs.
Noted for collaboration of artists and composers who created dances.
Rejected traditional form.
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Twyla TharpDances: Push Comes to Shove, The One Hundreds, The Catherine Wheel
Broadway: Hair, Singing in the Rain, Movinʼ OutBallet and jazz styles to form own unique style
Quick changes of directionLoose, casual-looking limbs and upper bodies
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PilobolusStarted by 4 college biology students
Created dances that are athletic, gymnastic and include unusual lifts and body balancesNamed after a fungus