Dance 101 1st Edition Lecture 8 Outline of Last Lecture I Contemporary Ballet II George Balanchine III NYC Ballet IV Midterm 2 Outline of Current Lecture II Modern Dance Current Lecture Modern Dance Evolved in the late 1800s and early 1900s as a revolt against perceived restrictions limitations of ballet Began in late 1800s as a revolt against the implied restrictions of ballet It was a revolution Modern ballet is still contemporary ballet modern dance has moved away from ballet Restrictions In American ballet they would restrict the storyline usually tied to nobility and the wealthy ballet shoes are very expensive Modern dance is about individualism Themes inspirations involve real life situations and societal issues Continued fascination with the Ancient World India China Egypt Greece Genre differs widely in style approach and methodology Isadora Duncan 1877 1927 the mother of modern dance An immature young girl who wanted to dance and be free From California Created her own choreography and performed wherever she could Left for Greece because she thought America wasn t Her goal was to build a new temple to dance in Greece she didn t do it thought Family went back to America and she ended up going to England homeless She spent the night in graveyard where she started dancing Began giving dance lessons traveling from place to place Very bohemian hippy like she thought she needed to stand out But her technique doesn t live on but she made it acceptable not to be so proper like ballet Loved being wild and free Paris Singer a millionaire was her almost husband for a brief time he has a family in America and house in England He let her use the house for recitals These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute Died in a car accident like her children in the same river outside of Paris Died in early middle age Her scarf strangled her when it got caught in the wheel All of western Europe mourned Free flowing fabrics unrestricted clothing and bare feet connection with nature Air on the G String Loved the key of G music Played this at Isadoras funeral Mother Dance that Isadora Duncan is best known for This dance is to remember her children she danced out her grief because they died in a car accident car rolled down into a river and they drowned Living in France at the time Isadorables Not a strict structured technique All about freedom no one studied mastered her dance These are little children that followed Isadora students of her that never stayed long Rudolf Von Laban 1879 1958 German dancer and choreographer Germanys equivalent of Isadora Duncan but he was much more organized and disiplined Known for 2 things Labanotation and Laban Movement Analysis Labanotation A system of writing down dance recording dance and writing books on dance For modern dance Laban Movement Analysis How to analyze dance scientific method based on time space shape Used to analyze whether a dance was good in the right proportion get across what dance would do and what is it trying to express COMMUNICATION is still the reason for dance ex Isadora is dancing for freedom death of her children Reason for dance is to run human emotion and thought processes