Famous Dance People
She is known as the "Mother of Black Dance" and is famous as a dance anthropologist and choreographer
Katherine Dunham
What color is my scooter?
Creme
What language is ballet terminology in?
French
Soft, indirect, slow
Float
focusing on European culture or history to the exclusion of a wider view of the world
Eurocentric
The queen of the contraction and release. Her movement is spine and breathe based.
Martha Graham
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what does plié mean?
To bend
quick, direct, fast, large
Punch
Ethnic Dance
He composed the music for many ballets in the Romantic Era. An example is Swan Lake.
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
What is my husband's name?
Joshua
What famous modern dance piece is called a ballet but caused controversy with its "anti-ballet movements" and story? Music by Stravinsky and Choreography by Nijinsky.
The Rite of Spring
slow, strong effort, twisting
Wring
Two questions in one: The beginning of a story that sets the plot, characters, setting, etc. and tell a story in dance
Exposition and Narrative
Pina Bausch
What is my other major?
Music
What country did Ballet technically originate from?
Italy. Popularized in France.
indirect, medium effort, direct
glide
relating to or denoting art that does not attempt to represent external reality, but rather seeks to achieve its effect using shapes, colors, and textures.
Abstract
In the dance we watched in class, she was a Peacock and known for being one of the first Modern Dance choerographers.
Ruth St. Denis
How do you say my last name?
Hanes (Spelt Henss)
What are some of the roots of ballet and how it has formed today? I will take one of two answers for this.
Fencing or Social Court Dances
Name the 3/4 of the rest of the efforts that have not been said
Flick, Dab, Press, Slash
Not a term, but according to Will Storr, what can propel a story forward more than the narrative itself?
Complex Characters or character traits