Modern Dance History
I am the modern forerunner that used color, fabric, movement, sound, and light to create innovative dances as a complete theatrical experience.
Who is Loie Fuller?
The compilation of steps, patterns, and movements that make up a dance routine.
What is choreography?
Who is Hanya Holm?
Modern dance in the 1930's was also known as
What is experimental dancing?
The best way to categorize the dance styles.
What is Ethnic, ballet, Modern, jazz...?
I am the choreographer known for “chance."
Who is Merce Cunningham?
Curving of the torso into a concave shape.
What is a contraction?
I was Alvin Ailey's muse.
Who is Judith Jamison?
The young dancers who studied and danced with Isadora Duncan in the 1920's.
Who are the Isadorables?
I am the 5 elements of modern dance.
What are Body, Action, Space, Time, and Energy?
The initiator of modern dance.
Who is Isadora Duncan?
Step forward onto a full foot right leg (plié), step forward onto half toe left (elevé), step forward with right leg onto half toe. Accent is down-up-up. This step travels forward in a straight line, diagonal, or in a turn.
What is a triplet?
I am an eclectic choreographer, one of my claims to fame is a Broadway show called Movin' Out.
Who is Twila Tharp?
developed a technique that was built around the premise of "fall and recovery"
Who is Doris Humphrey?
We are two major choreographers who first performed with Martha Graham.
Who are Paul Taylor and Mercy Cunningham?
I choreographed Still/Here in the 1994.
Who is Bill T. Jones?
The period of unbalance and the period of balance. There are three movements: falling movement, a recovery, and a suspension, but the last two occur as one movement, the suspension being a hold at the peak of the movement.
What is Fall & Recovery?
My work brings women to the centre of the narrative.
Who is Martha Graham?
Not concerned with the dramatic and realistic but believed that other factors were more important. It reflected movement rather than the storyline as the primary focus of the dance.
What is post-modern dance?
A dance creation process involving spontaneous movements based on a particular idea.
What is improvisation?
Although, I am a modern choreographer of the 20th century, I am not one of the early 20th century.
This is how a dancer utilizes aspects of motion like flow, space, time, texture, and weight to create movement.
What is dynamics?
Through my dance work and social activism, I conquered racial and gender injustices and brought solidarity to a discrimination-plagued America.
Who is Katherine Dunham?
Began choreographing during an era of experimentation with minimalist movement (e.g. Duet, 1957).
Who is Paul Taylor?
A form of dance that evolved during the 1960's and 1970's that questioned the traditional notions of classical modern dance
What is contemporary dance?