Dance As An Artform (German Expressionism)
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imtrynastudy on December 13, 2009
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Influence (german expressionism) | visual arts. |
| german expressionism | expose inner, emotional states of artist rather than objective reality. impose states on audience. more forceful than abstraction. distorted, exaggerated, violent. highly subjective. |
| Primitivism | artistic reaction to industrialism and modernism in west. asian, african and other primitive art. regain relationships to nature and supernatural. |
| Ausdrunktanz | expressive dance movement. response to industrialization and changing role of women. interrupted by nazis. led by rudolf laban and mary wigman. |
| Rudolf Laban | movement scientist and notation developer. body's effort over space and time. movement notation system. |
| Mary Wigman | international figure in modern dance. showing impact of internal feelings. meaning fulness of space as forceful element. |
| Witch Dance | wigman. ugly, weird, emotions, anger |
| Bauhaus | arts and technology merged into "unified socialism". synthesis of art and technology in pure forms. scientific approach. |
| Oskar Schlemmer | androgenized performers. crossover from visual arts. puppets. mechanical and mathematical workings. |
| Black Mountain College | inspired new generation of artists. experimenting with choreographing space and how dances are made. aligned with changing political climate of 60s. |
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