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  Dance Glossary
For example she made expressionist dance known in the USA as German dance, thereby influencing modern dance in the USA.From the beginning of the 1930s there were no further developments in the expressionist dance.
Next the autonomy of dance movement, their point of departure included a strong emphasis on the formal structure of dance work, in the part influenced by the representational reduction of minimal art, or by the encounter with other forms, such as show dance, the musical and fl dance.
Characteristic features of dance theatre are primarily the inclusion of everyday movement and language in the dance, the unmediated contact to the public, the introduction of new narrative structure which refer to montage of many single scenes, the openness of a work called,,work in progress" and the recession of any regular rules of dance technique.
www.student.chula.ac.th /~46850741/eng_doc/dance_glossary.htm   (1786 words)

  
 Dancers : AXIS Dance Company
Dance Outreach is a training and performance program in movement and dance for children with disabilities.
The primary focus of the Inflight Dance Co. is to demonstrate that a physical disability is not a barrier in the dance world.
Dance for the disabled dancer is excellent because moving to music is therapeutic for the body and uplifting for the spirit.
www.axisdance.org /education_likeUs.php   (2153 words)

  
 Butoh Net: The World Of Butoh Dance
Butoh is a contemporary avant-garde dance form which originated in Japan and which was first performed there in 1959.
It combines dance, theater, improvisation and influences of Japanese traditional performing arts with German Expressionist dance (Neue Tanz) and performance art to create a unique performing art form that is both controversial and universal in its expression.
Dance festivals have featured performances by Butoh artists since the 1960s, but more recently festivals have been held which are exclusively devoted to Butoh.
www.butoh.net   (419 words)

  
 Dance New Amsterdam
The large dance phrases are designed to create vast range of motion and a grand sense of momentum.
Dancing is a body language that translates the imagination into a visceral form of personal expression.
Informed by various traditional and non-traditional dance forms, students will investigate dynamic effort, weight quality and the exploration of performance states in order to cultivate versatility, physical intent, and authenticity in regard to mind, body and spirit.
www.dnadance.org /modern_guest.html   (5640 words)

  
 Dance Music Video, Dancer Rene Blanco & New Music, Dance Videos Around the World, Free Streaming Video & ...
Some Ceremonial dances, Baroque dances and Erotic dances are examples of dance forms that are a blend of Social and Concert dance.
It should be noted that Concert dance experienced the biggest exposure with development of mass culture during the second half of 20th Century.
Usually, performances are danced to a set music and choreography, whereas social dances are danced to changing music and without choreography.
dancemusicvideo.net /Buy_Music_Video/DANCE_PERFORMANCE/DANCE_PERFORMANCE_-_HOME.html   (442 words)

  
  The Hindu : To dance a feeling
Pina returns the dance to the dancer, acrobatics to the playful space of children, narratives to story-tellers and a sense of sanctity to the ritual.
Among many dance teaching institutions, what distinguishes FTS is that the school does not train just dancers but opens up avenues for human beings to dance a feeling.
There are dance fairs and dance platforms of an annual nature in Essen, Brotfabrik in Bonn and hundreds of festivals and platforms happening throughout the year which bring together the dancing community and its audiences from different parts of the world.
www.hindu.com /2000/10/08/stories/09080332.htm   (1558 words)

  
 Latest Dance News - Japanese Women Wear Red and Vent in Controlled Mayhem
The five troupes performing in the eighth annual showcase demonstrated that experimental dance in Japan is as lively as ever.
By the end, emotions were chillingly and impressively escalated into an ecstatic dance.
One woman walked with a jack-o'-lantern mask on her head and an ensemble moved sideways with crablike efficiency: a blend of styles with possibilities.
www.nydancewear.com /Japanese_Women_Wear_Red_and_Vent.htm   (645 words)

  
 The Washington Diplomat
ìAusdruckstanzî refers to expressionist dance, and Wiesenthal, Bodenwieser and Laban were its pioneersóstrong, colorful personalities who sought to loosen dance from the formal strictures of ballet.
The result is the visual resurrection of a golden age of experimentation that focuses on the key figures in expressionist dance while hinting at what we know was going on in other areas of the arts.
She founded a dance school and was a key figure in modern dance.
www.washdiplomat.com /04-11/b7_11_04.html   (746 words)

  
 Expressionist Dance Videos - Expressionist Dance Video Clips
Orb/Orbit/Orbitron, is a free style dance expressionist, as well as an MC and rapper.
Inspired by abstract expressionist painter, Joan Mitchell, breathtaking interchanges occur betw...
Eight objects dance to the industrial tekkno sound of Austrian composers Pulsinger & Tunakan.
www.searchforvideo.com /entertainment/dance/expressionist-dance   (185 words)

  
 millie shapiro, canadian painters, canadian artists, canadian expressionist painters
Her large, vibrant Expressionist oils of women and animals emerge from a consciousness grounded in reality, yet free to take flight to mythological realms.
As she says, "Art is the dance you do with life." Her lush, figurative style unabashedly projects female power.
She with the flaming red hair and strong eyes who occupies the center of so many of her works is a composite fantasy - a force of nature.
www.millieshapiro.com /bio.html   (259 words)

  
 Dance Books Ltd: Published titles
Dancing was an essential part of life in Shakespeare's England, and it occurs in almost all of Shakespeare's plays from...
Dancing in Petersburg, the memoirs of Mathilde Kschessinska.
Dance is a uniquely significant art form, whose primary material is not simply 'the body', but energy as it is used and...
www.dancebooks.co.uk /catalog/danceBooksTitles.asp   (2712 words)

  
 Thistle Dance Publishing Artists
She flirted with renown in the early 1960s when her expressionist landscapes were included in two National Gallery of Canada biennials; and she brushed against it again in 1977 when her surrealist figure paintings toured the country.
The 88 drawings included in the exhibition highlight all the major phases of her work - the student experiments, the semi-abstract landscapes, the expressionist figure studies, the surrealist pieces and the neighborhood cityscapes.
None of the new young Expressionist artists have read the letters of Van Gogh; there is an attitude that the past has nothing to teach you.
www.thistledance.com /art_Fraser.html   (7484 words)

  
 TRANSIT's History
TRANSIT, a multi-ethnic and multi-generational, expressionist dance company, was formed in 1995, by M. Koob and Kathleen Moore.
The company was created with the commitment of creating new and thoughtful work, rooted in Koob's training under Hellmut Gottschild, Mary Wigman's last assistant prior to her death.
We have performed as guest artists/guest choreographer for Asian American Dance Performances during their Angel Island Series in May of 1996 at Dancers Group Studio Theater.
www.transitdance.com /hist.html   (339 words)

  
 Kennedy Center: 2007-08 America Dancing Performances & Programs
The dancer/choreographer brings his contemporary dance company, Noism 08, to present the world premiere of the full-evening work NINA materialize sacrifice.
Japanese experimentalist dance troupe Sankai Juku presents Kinkan Shonen, a butoh work that fuses Japanese classical dance and theater and German Expressionist modern dance.
Nov 5, 2007 at 8:00 PM Ballet Hispanico and the Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra with Arturo O'Farrill collaborate to present Palladium Nights, a glorious celebration of the music and dance of the Golden Age of Latin Jazz.
www.kennedy-center.org /programs/dance   (349 words)

  
 Latest Dance News - Japanese Women Wear Red and Vent in Controlled Mayhem
The five troupes performing in the eighth annual showcase demonstrated that experimental dance in Japan is as lively as ever.
Moriyama's unconventional virtuosity as his body moved in and out of architectural shapes: a dance of amazing concentration by an amazing dancer.
One woman walked with a jack-o'-lantern mask on her head and an ensemble moved sideways with crablike efficiency: a blend of styles with possibilities.
www.newyorkdancewear.com /Japanese_Women_Wear_Red_and_Vent.htm   (645 words)

  
 StreetSwing's Dance Archives - Jivin' In Bebop - Main
This rare musical feature has no script, no plot, very little dialogue and just a solid hour of incredible jazz / Bop music played by the music star Dizzy Gillespie and his orchestra plus a band of others.
An interesting look at dance with Bop music.
Some Bop music was fine but most became un danceable in some respects such as the song Salt Peanuts.
www.streetswing.com /films/video/f2_jivin_in_bebop.htm   (87 words)

  
 NYO - Gottlieb: Dance   (Site not responding. Last check: )
But In Vento (commissioned score by Bruno Moretti, costumes by Bigonzetti himself) proved to be an acceptable piece of expressionist dance—its vocabulary reminiscent of The Cage—and a big audience hit.
It’s always wonderful to see her, dancing full out and expressively, but one couldn’t help worrying as she staunchly dealt with the intricacies and traps of the frequently one-handed partnering of Sébastien Marcovici.
Balanchine disliked Bartók’s music, at least for ballet, and as usual he was right: This score is not exactly an invitation to the dance.
www.nyobserver.com /20060605/20060605_Robert_Gottlieb_culture_gottliebdance.asp   (720 words)

  
 Past events
Ibsen Elsewhere, Departments of Scandinavian and Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies
Fiona Shaw, Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies and Cal Performances
Dances That Describe Themselves, lecture by Susan Foster at the Department of Dramatic Art & Dance
www.bampfa.berkeley.edu /bca/archives.html   (2185 words)

  
 Kennedy Center Calendar: Search by Genre
Kenichi Ebina, choreographer and founder of the all-Japanese dance group BiTriP, shares his unique style of dance during this master class.
Join company members from New Zealand's Black Grace as they share their unique fusion of traditional and contemporary dance forms in a master class.
From jitterbug to the merengue to hand dancing, Performance Plus will have you swinging through the halls of the Kennedy Center with its Summer Social Dance parties.
www.kennedy-center.org /calendar/?fuseaction=searchGenre&genre=DAN   (327 words)

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