Theater- Dance
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- Time
- Tempo, Rhythm, Duration
- Tap
- Evolved in the early 20th century
- Dance
- An art form that exists in both time and space and that is instrumented by the human body.
- Martha Graham
- Firmly established modern dance as an accepted artistic from.
- Traditional Ballet
- Is narrative, first dance to be performed for an audience, is highly structured.
- Ballet
- Evolved from Italian court ballet, flourished under Louis XIV, Royal Academy of Dance created in 1661.
- Jazz
- Evolved from a fusion of African rhythms, European folk dances and the American jazz music of the 1920's, highly emotional, utilizes syncopation to highten the power and energy.
- Isadora Duncan
- Mother of Modern Dance
- Labanotation
- Most well known documentation method created by Rudolf Laban.
- Renaissance Dance
- Social, primarily for aristocracy and royalty, indicated education and good breeding. (Schotish, Gavotte, Pavane, Morris, Courante)
- Buck-and-Wing
- Afast style of dance done in wooden sole shoes.
- Energy
- Force, weight, dynamics,
- Pierre Beauchamp
- Appointed Superintendent of the Kings Ballet, formed a vocabulary of ballet, Documented foot and body positions of traditional ballet.
- Soft shoe
- Done in soft leather shoes.
- Technical Support
- costumes, lighting, setting/props, music.
- Folk/National Dance
- A way to preserve ethnic identity. (clogging, polka, square dancing, hula)
- Duration
- How long the dance/piece/movement lasts.
- Tempo
- speed variation
- Space
- Body shapes, line,shape, levels, positive and negative space, placement, floor patterns, designs by groups of dancers.
- That's dancing
- Loie Fuller, Busby Berkeley, Ruby Keeler, Bill (Bojangles) Robinson, Nicholas Brothers, Eleanor Powell, Ray Bolger, Fred Astaire.
- Rhythm
- Relationships in time between parts of a composition
- Choreographer
- The creator of a dance.
- Modern Dance
- 20th century, celebrated individuality, reaction against traditional ballet, story was not necessary.
- Dance Origins
- Myth/Ritual, Religion, Communication/Oral history.