Let's Improvise
(Lady?) Gaga
Techniques
Take a chance on me
100
In the postmodern movement people were more interested in this as opposed to the final product.
What is process?
100
The creator of Gaga
Who is Ohad Naharin?
100
This technique is based on the principles of Fall and Recovery
What is Limon technique?
100
Adults acting like pre-adolescents when staging folk dance
What is "fun in the village motif"?
200
Separating the performers from the audience
What is the "fourth wall"?
200
Gaga is not a technique it is a...
What is a movement language? (also accepted: Meta-Technique)
200
This technique is based on the principles of contraction and release.
What is Graham technique?
200
Ethnic Dances incorporated in Ballet productions or highly choreographed snippets of folk dance
What is character?
300
Not performing on a stage
What is site-specific
300
The Israeli based company that primarily trains in Gaga.
What is Batsheva?
300
Duncan explored natural movement in order to escape from the constraints of this dance technique
What is Ballet?
300
The equivalent of modern dance in Europe
What is Ausdruckstanz (or German Expressionist Dance)?
400
The most famous work of Yvonne Rainer
What is Trio A?
400
One of the main principles of a gaga class. (we did it at the very beginning of the gaga inspired studio class)
What is floating?
400
It is a tool through which you can access techniques and skills your body is already trained in.
What is Meta-technique?
400
Folk dance performed with uniform costumes, orchestral tone music, uniform choreography and without paying attention to regional details
What is Essentialization?
500
One of the primary principles of postmodern dance that became particularly evident through the use of neutral costumes
What is gender equality?
500
Ohad Naharin studied with her company in New York
Who is Martha Graham?
500
This genre of dance said NO to technique.
What is Post-Modern dance?
500
One of her Indian performers sued her for stealing their choreography and not giving them credit.
Who is Ruth St Denis?