Dance 101 1st Edition Lecture 13 Outline of Last Lecture I Post Modern Dance II Merce Cunningham III John Cage Outline of Current Lecture II Post Modern Dance III Judith Jamison IV Bill Jones Current Lecture Post Modern Dance John Cage o Collaborations with visual artists and composers o Computer Technology and Dance o Musician and composer composing almost all of merce Cunninghams music for his danced Alwin Nikolais 1912 1993 o Motion not Emotion Murray Louis b 1926 o Nikolais Louis Dance Lab o Nikolais Louis Dance Company Paul Taylor b 1930 o Forerunner of the post modern movement o Paul Taylor Dance Company o Aureole Cloven Kingdom Esplanade classical movement barefoot Piazzolla Caldera Post Modern Second Generation The Next Wave 1950s 1970s Dance for mild topics to things that are very controversial like aids epidemic Dances can be beautiful or very horrific ugly Basically can dance about anything Pedestrian style clothing everyday wear Judith Jamison b 1944 o Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre 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 o Divining best known for this piece of work Based on her trip to Africa o Performed in Sophisticated Ladies Broadway Alvin Ailey asked her to come dance for him Ailey Company o 6 foot tall dancer African American discrimination on her o Became one of leading female dancers with Alvin Ailey and took over his company when he passed away Bill T Jones b 1952 o Work is controversial and has a strong narrative o Bill T Jones Arnie Zane Dance Company Arnie Zane was a college friend Company known for different dancers from all over the world all different sizes and backgrounds real people Very eclectic company Arnie Zane got AIDS and passed away o D Man in the Waters Still Here About AIDS epidemic and dying away Bill T Jones s first work on his own without Arnie Zane o Spring Awakening Fela Broadway Spring Awakening was a serious show that Bill choreographed Fela Jones wrote choreographed and directed this piece About an African American Garth Fagan b 1940 Don t need to know him o The Lion King Pina Bausch 1940 2009 o German choreographer that studied with Kirt Euse who studied with Rudolph Bahnlavan o Studied with Jose Lamone and Paul Taylor o Went to Gulliard leading performer and died in 2009 o Movement sound and STAGE SETS o Main theme in works is relationships o Digs up emotions from dancers and uses a lot of their collaboration Improv and memory from dancers are used in her work o She covers the stage in things ex rose petals glitter and dirt exc o Wuppertaler Tanztheatre Dance theatre in German Elaborate collaborations o Judson Dance Theatre Meredith Monk b 1943 Yvonne Rainer b 1934 Trisha Brown b 1940 Don t need to know this Mark Morris b 1956 o Today one of the foremost working choreographers o Themes can be wildly comic to very dark and dramatic o Musicality is very important today he never works with recorded music and always performs with live music o From Seattle o Know for his creative approach and sense of humor and his musical variety o Worked with Machel Bridgenicoff White Oak Projects worked with Raquel o Diloh Enneneous and modern version of nutcracker the Hard Nut o Worked with YoYo Ma o Received many awards from different musical schools David Dorfman b 1956 Don t need to know him David Parsons b 1959 Don t need to know him o Dance Fusion