Show:
Premodern
Modern
Late Modern/
Cunningham
Postmodern/
Contemporary
"Chance"
100
choreographer inspired by breath, nature, Greek art and architecture
Who is Isadora Duncan?
100
Choreographed many dances based on Greek mythology
Who is Martha Graham?
100
Choreographed "Revelations"
Who is Alvin Ailey?
100
Yvonne Rainer's document which summed up the spirit of postmodern dance
What is the "No Manifesto"?
100
choreographer associated with "tanztheater"
Who is Pina Bausch?
200
Choreographer inspired by the "exotic" lands of India and Egypt
Who is Ruth St. Denis?
200
Wrote "The Art of Making Dances"
Who is Doris Humphrey?
200
Choreographed pieces like "Esplanade" which combine pedestrian movement and modern technique
Who is Paul Taylor?
200
interested in choreographing for rarely-used spaces such as rooftops and walls
Who is Trisha Brown?
200
postmodern choreographer who has choreographed a number of dances that utilize folding chairs
Who is David Gordon?
300
Choreographer who created illusions with flowing skirts and stage lighting
Who is Loie Fuller?
300
based her technique in part on her research in Haiti
Who is Katherine Dunham?
300
interested in creating multi-media spectacles, while still maintaining an interest in expressing emotion
Who is Alwin Nikolais?
300
Bill T. Jones's community-based dance about living with a terminal illness
What is "Still/Here"?
300
German choreographer of "The Green Table"
Who is Kurt Jooss?
400
Company founded by a husband and wife team, dancers included Martha Graham and Jack Cole
What is Denishawn?
400
Choreographed with the politically-minded New Dance Group
Who is Pearl Primus?
400
composer who frequently collaborated with Cunningham
Who is John Cage?
400
developed Contact Improvisation
Who is Steve Paxton?
400
Pioneered dance notation and movement analysis
Who is Rudolph von Laban?
500
Choreographed "Witch Dance"
Who is Mary Wigman?
500
practice of translating ideas into movement
What is abstraction?
500
Cunningham frequently creates movement by using this method
What is a chance score?
500
His choreography class was the starting point for the Judson Dance Theatre
Who is Robert Dunn?
500
modern technique that is based upon the principles of fall and recovery
What is Humphrey technique?