Dance History final
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Ginger Rodger quote on button | found at the femanist store. "Ginger did everything that fred did but backwards with heels on" |
| fosse's famous works | the pajama game, chicago, sweet charity, all that jazz |
| diaspora | force to leave home |
| who is Busby Berkeley | famous for overhead shots, 50-100 performers, beautiful girls and geometric patterns |
| Jermone Robbins | choregrapher of west side story- retells romeo&juliet, |
| who is Fosse mentor | Jerome Robbins |
| shirley temple & bill bojangles Robinson | first black man tap dancing with a white girl on film. and huge age difference |
| who is Gwen Verdon | a broadway performer and Fosse's ex wife. |
| Gwen Verdon starred in? | Damn yankees and The pajama game |
| What is black face? | facial mask;make up worn by both white and black to illustrate racial sterotypes and perceptions. |
| cattle call | an audition that brings together hundreds of dancers vying for limited parts |
| ausdruckstanz | Dance of Expression |
| who is Bill T. Jones | a provactive artist;potically controversial |
| Bill T. Jones famous work | Uncle Tom's Cabin, The Promise Land |
| describe Promise land | dealt with Uncle Tom's Cabin. disscused slavery, showed whipping and danced naked, worked with actors of all races, & past personal experience w/ race & childhood |
| Isadora Ducun | barefoot, free movement-walking,skipping, running; bi sexual |
| how many of Isadora's kids died? | 2/3 |
| how many personal tragedies | 3 the accident that killed her children, son died after few hours of being born |
| how did Isadora Ducun she die? | from her hanging scarf that got caught to the car wheel and strangled her |
| Fosse | married 3x, slept with alot of women, daughter named Michelle, drinked & smoked |
| Fosse died from a | heart attack |
| Ben Vereen | Costarred with Ann Reinking in Fosse, a Broadway revue featuring a collection of Fosse's best choreography, and was an expert on Fosse's work/style |
| All that Jazz | was an auto-biography of Fosse's life |
| Martha Graham | second generation modern dancer; developed contraction/release and dramatic story telling of Greek tragedies; used lots of props and set and striped costumes. developed the "Cupped Hand". Studied with Ruth St. Denis and Denishawn, and enjoy Asian influences in her work |
| Ted Shawn's Male Dancers | 1930-1960's First all male dance company. Worked and lived together.Wanted to highlight athleticism and masculinity |
| Jacob's Pillow | farmhouse where Ted Shawn company farmed, work and lived together while training and rehearsing. Performances were held there, too |
| Merce Cunningham | invented "Chance Dance" using dice and/or name graphing. worked in along time partnership with John Cage ( a musician ) |
| Gus Giordano | began a jazz company in the 70s located in the greater chicago,IL area |
| Luigi | " Luigi Technique" a style which evolved from " the inside out". states one should take classes as if its for the first time |
| How does Luigi prepare for teaching class | comes in an hour early, take off his clothes, put a rob on , and relax and feel at home |
| Luigi says jazz is interpretation of what? | of sound , and america's cultural contribution to the world of dance |
| what environment does Luigi create in the classroom | he like making the classroom feel like home |
| what does he want his students to learn | he want his students to understand his feelings, and than they with be able to understand him and his dance |
| did Luigi teach jazz with a ballet barre | Luigi dance has no barre because he wants the students to learn how to support and control himself totally from within and through finding the feeling of using space as a barre |
| Paul Draper's states that tap dancing is not thought properly why? | By teaching how to dance instead of teaching routines. |
| what does he feel one need to know to study to properly learn to tap? | Before studying tap dance you must have some sense of coordination, body control and Rhythm for at At least a year of ballet |
| The Black Crook | a theater piece about a hunchback who makes a pact with the devil. premiered in 1866 in the US. and incorporated dance soloists from Europe. many American woman joined the chorus, and the show traveled around the country for several years. ] |
| how were woman seen who join the chorus of the black crook? | they were seen as lady of the night |
| how did the audience receive the black crook? | they had a very negative reaction.they thought it was skeptical, but enjoy the long legs, and they also didn't know what to do with it |
| How trained were the US dancers, and what were their background like? | the US dancers did not have any training on the from of ballet, and most of the dancers were woman who were trying to survived by any means. |
| why did the third rich wish to eliminate modern dancer? | the third rich was the period of Hater's accusation |
| Arlene Croce | accused Bill T. Jones of creating " victim art". says his work was undiscussable |
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