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	Modern dance - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Modern dance is a dance form developed in the early 20th century.
		Although the term Modern dances has also been applied to a category of 20th Century ballroom dances, Modern dance as a term usually refers to 20th century concert dance.
		Holm's dance work Metropolitan Daily was the first modern dance composition to be televised on NBC and her labanotation score for Kiss Me, Kate (1948), was the first choreography to be copyrighted in the United States.
	open-encyclopedia.com /Modern_dance (2014 words)

	Russian Classical ballet and Modern Dance
		The dissemination of ballet in Russia and its deep rooted appeal to all Russians can be traced back to those nobles who, often living so far away from the capital, commanded their own entertainment, setting up ballet troupes often composed of serfs who had been trained at the Imperial School.
		But by the late 19th century ballet in Russia was a stagnant form where the virtuoso demonstration of classical technique had become an end in itself while the narrative was enlivened only by character dances.
		It was in 1935 that the ballet became the Kirov Ballet.
	slis.cua.edu /ihy/sppj/cl_hist.htm (2718 words)

	The History of Ballet
		Ballet in Russia is often forceful and showy, and French ballet is generally pretty and decorative.
		A ballet's choreography (arrangement of dance movements) may be based on such sources as a story, a musical composition, or a painting.
		Ballet became firmly established in Australia in the early 1900's after visits by the ballerinas Adeline Genee of Denmark and Anna Pavlova of Russia.
	www.dance4it.com /ballethistory.htm (6384 words)

	Modern dance -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Although the term Modern dances has also been applied to a category of 20th Century (Any of a variety of social dances performed by couples in a ballroom) ballroom dances, Modern dance as a term usually refers to (additional info and facts about 20th century concert dance) 20th century concert dance.
		The development of Modern dance embraced the contributions of African-American dance artists regardless of whether they made pure modern dance works or blended modern dance with (A native or inhabitant of Africa) African and (Region including the Caribbean islands) Caribbean influences.
		The legacy on Modern dance can be seen in lineage of (additional info and facts about 20th century concert dance) 20th century concert dance forms.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/mo/modern_dance.htm (2430 words)

	Dancing Online, History of Ballet
		The court ballet reached its peak during the reign (1643-1715) of Louis XIV, whose title the Sun King was derived from a role he danced in a ballet.
		Many of the ballets presented at his court were created by the Italian-French composer Jean Baptiste Lully and the French choreographer Pierre Beauchamp, who is said to have defined the five positions of the feet.
		Modern dance also eventually extended the movement vocabulary of ballet, particularly in the use of the torso and in movements done lying or sitting on the floor.
	www.ccs.neu.edu /home/yiannis/dance/history.html (2202 words)

	Rhythmic Movement Dance Series
		Offered for children in the format of ballet, modern dance and rhythmic movement, with some material for adults and those challenged, collections include choreography, dance elements and lesson plans, all with the aim of developing basic body-mind coordination.
		For the sake of categorization, modern is the more appropriate label, though I learned the 16 basic rhythmic movements in ballet classes with Carol Lynn, who had a Denishawn (Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn) influence.
		Ballet may not generally be thought of as a way to teach academics somatically, but I recorded a list of applications I discovered while teaching, which I have included in the introductory notes of this classical ballet text.
	www.susankramer.com /DanceSeries.html (1174 words)

	ballet -> The Modern Ballet Renaissance on Encyclopedia.com 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		ballet -> The Modern Ballet Renaissance on Encyclopedia.com 2002
		Moscow's Bolshoi Ballet, which brought fame to Galina Ulanova, Maya Plisetskaya, and V. Gordeyev, and the Kirov Ballet (since 1991 the St. Petersburg Maryinsky Ballet), whose dancers have included Rudolf Nureyev, Natalia Makarova, and Mikhail Baryshnikov, are the two foremost Russian companies and are ranked among the finest in the world.
		The other major American company, the American Ballet Theatre (formerly the Ballet Theatre), was founded in 1939 as an offshoot of the smaller Mordkin Ballet.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/section/ballet_TheModernBalletRenaissance.asp (1263 words)

	Modern dance - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the early 1900s a few dancers in Europe started to rebel against the rigid constraints of Classical Ballet.
		In America Loie Fuller, Isadora Duncan, Ruth St. Denis and Martha Graham developed their own styles of free dance and laid the foundations of American modern dance with their choreography and teaching.
		Katherine Dunham - African-American dancer, and anthropologist, originally a ballet dancer she founded her first company Ballet Negre in 1936 and later the Katherine Dunham Dance Company based in Chicago, Illinois.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Modern_dance (2057 words)

	Russian Classical ballet and Modern Dance
		CLASSICAL BALLET is movement based on the traditional technique from the French ballet of the 17th and 18th centuries, and the Italian school of the 19th century.
		MODERN DANCE, having begun as a reaction to the rigidity of classical ballet, is perhaps more easily defined by what it is not than by what it is, and it is often defined in contrast to ballet.
		Modern dance flourished in areas that lacked strong ballet traditions, such as in the United States where ballet companies were imported from Europe.
	slis.cua.edu /ihy/sppj/about.htm (514 words)

	village voice > dance > by Sara Wolf
		He was too busy readying his eponymous Modern Ballet for an August 8 opening at the Duke on 42nd Street.
		Co-founded in 1981 as an eclectic "Joffrey-esque" venture and under his sole directorship since 1996, RRMB is currently a pickup group of 10, most of whom are well-versed in Rogers's stripped-to-essentials style and reductive distillations of music.
		He isn't worried that the ballet will come together in time—in fact, it's hard to imagine what would trouble this affable man in chunky fl shop-teacher glasses, with the art-nerd crewcut and an easy grin.
	www.villagevoice.com /issues/0231/wolf.php (320 words)

	ballet -> The Modern Ballet Renaissance on Encyclopedia.com 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Marius Petipa, who created a powerful sense of unity by rigorously training his corps de ballet as had not been done before, indicated in his choreography the direction of intensified romantic drama that the newly revived art was to take.
		Nureyev, both a choreographer and dancer, was instrumental in changing the traditional supportive role of the male dancer to a far more significant, dynamic, and athletic place in the ballet; many other contemporary choreographers have similarly given their male dancers a more flamboyant showcase.
		Dancers waiting backstage during a performance of a Paganini ballet by members of the Bolshoi ballet, Moscow.
	encyclopedia.com /html/section/ballet_themodernballetrenaissance.asp (1263 words)

	Foundations of modern ballet (from Western dance) -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		More results on "Foundations of modern ballet (from Western dance)" when you join.
		Ballet creatively expresses the full range of human emotions through physical movements and gestures.
		Spans ballet and modern dance companies, educational institutions, people and organizations, summer programs, events, and news.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-22127 (798 words)

	Dancing For Him Training Classes - Ballet, Modern, Aerobics, Step, Pilates, Firm to the Core
		BALLET TECHNIQUE- Although we love expressing and "flowing", ballet is a great foundation of movement technique that improves your posture, poise, strength, flexibility, grace, and balance.
		Ballet - Since this class is immediately after the fitness classes and you'll be sweaty, it would be easiest to just stay in the same attire.
		Modern Dance - Since this class is immediately after the fitness classes and you'll be sweaty, it would be easiest to just stay in the same attire.
	www.dancingforhim.com /dfhtrainingcenter.htm (1311 words)

	Modern ballet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This form of ballet realesed it's self from the more tradition types; Romantic ballet and Classical Ballet.
		Women do a lot of the lifts for this type of ballet.
		This is not a "beautiful" type of dance the movements can be quite abrasive, also there isn't as much point inn the foot, which is typical of Romantic and Classical Ballet, they dancers tend to use a more flexed foot.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Modern_ballet (158 words)

	JS Online: Tolstoy's 'Anna' springs to life as modern ballet
		Andre Prokovsky, who created a ballet version of the novel, had no words and less than three hours to tell the tale.
		He became a soloist with the London Festival Ballet in 1957 and in 1967 rejoined as a principal.
		In between, Prokovsky was a principal with the Grand Ballet of the Marquis de Cuevas and, from 1963-'67, was a principal with the New York City Ballet.
	www.jsonline.com /onwisconsin/arts/oct01/ballet14101201.asp (728 words)

	KoreaTimes : Invitation to the World of Modern Ballet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Ballet is interesting as long as you know something about it.
		Korea National Ballet’s ``2004 Ballet With Commentary’’ was greatly acclaimed among ballet novices as well as connoisseurs, opening doors to the world of an elegant, refined, yet interesting art genre.
		The audience will understand how modern ballet is different from classical ballet and discover its attractions.
	times.hankooki.com /lpage/culture/200406/kt2004062519232811700.htm (473 words)

	BALLET REVIEW: Boston Ballet Goes Modern -- ‘From Distant Shores’ Show Features Three Flavors of Modern ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The void has yet to be filled, but in “From Distant Shores,” the Boston Ballet is giving dance fans some ointment for their ailments by scrapping its trademark costume and prop filled extravaganza for a triptych of modern ballet that is at once simple, beautiful and beguiling.
		And it is made even more difficult by the fact that Ginastera’s string quartet lacks the rhythm that would aid the dancers in synchronizing their movements.
		Sadly, in Boston Ballet’s rendition of van Dantzig’s piece, the eight male dancers fall short of the mark, and on opening night they were often dancing out-of-sync, creating an aesthetic dissonance that detracted from an otherwise dazzling choreography.
	www-tech.mit.edu /V121/N55/BostonBallet.55a.html (553 words)

	Michel Fokine
		He believed that ballet at that time was too absorbed with technique and gymnastics execution, that there was too much emphasis on the legs and less on the rest of the body.
		These principles revolutionized ballet and were applied to his creations during the early 1900’s, performed at the Maryinsky Imperial Ballet and, under Serge Diaghilev, at the Ballets Russe.
		Female ballet dancers were unprepared and males non–existent as ballet dancers.
	www.yonkershistory.org /fokine.html (1320 words)

	Ballet and Autism - criticaldance.com ballet and modern dance forum
		Ballet is special (but not necessarily unique) among dance forms because it is so highly structured in the studio.
		Ballet training is all about setting up a daily rythm and repeating those movements ad nauseum with a goal towards technical perfection.
		One was a class of normal hearing ballet students in a performing arts high school, the other was in a private one-on-one setting.
	www.criticaldance.com /ubb/Forum7/HTML/000989.html (3475 words)

	Dance_courses (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		This course is designed to develop the knowledge and methodology for teaching the three major forms of Western theatrical dance i.e., ballet, modern dance, and jazz dance.
		It is designed as a general survey of the role of dance in primitive cultures to formal ballet, exclusive of American influences and modern techniques.
		This course is an advanced study of dance in which the student learns variations of important works of famous choreographers in the areas of ballet, modern, and jazz.
	www.kutztown.edu /acad/coe/hped/Pages/Coursed.html (1718 words)

	Great Performances . Dance in America: Lar Lubovitch's "Othello" from San Francisco Ballet . Biography \| PBS
		One of modern dance's most eclectic emissaries, Lar Lubovitch has created dances in a variety of arenas, earning both kudos and criticism for his work.
		He received a Tony Award nomination for his Broadway debut in 1987 with the musical staging of the Stephen Sondheim/James Lapine show "Into the Woods." And in 1994, his ballet for the short-lived Broadway musical version of "The Red Shoes" was judged the only redeemable part of that show.
		The 18-minute ballet survives in the repertory of American Ballet Theatre.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/gperf/shows/othello/llubovbio.html (674 words)

	Dance Magazine: Eifman's Jubilee: Russia's only modern ballet company celebrates 25 years of innovation - Boris Eifman ...
		In the center of classical Russian ballet, Leningrad, he created the first-ever Russian company of modern ballet, despite the Soviet view of art as a bomb that might be detonated under the system's foundation.
		Although his ballets were viewed by the cultural controllers as suspicious, the Soviet power got weaker and his company survived.
		Eifman's choreography and its principles were completely foreign to them but the choreographer overcame their rigid training and turned them into brilliant professional artists of modern ballet.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1083/is_1_76/ai_81764270 (1430 words)

	Boston vs. Cambridge - criticaldance.com ballet and modern dance forum
		It is a fallacy to believe that ballet dancers who choose to move differently are somehow incapable of moving the way others do or that they haven't been trained to move the way others do.
		Regretfully, Boston Ballet has not developed a distinct style in the about 50 years of its existence and it is a company with recourses unmatched by Cambridge.
		The local recital studio type and modern dance are all in the Boston side of university’s environments such as Boston University, Northeastern, The Boston Conservatory, the State Teachers College.
	www.criticaldance.com /ubb/Forum3/HTML/000388.html (4835 words)

	Ballet-Modern FAQ - Part 2
		The purpose of alt.arts.ballet is to provide a forum for people with an interest in ballet and/or the more modern outgrowths of classical ballet.
		All questions, comments, information and discussion pertaining to ballet and/or modern dance are welcome, and ALL members of the ballet/modern dance community (e.g., dancers, choreographers, fans, students, etc.) are encouraged to participate.
		Dance Ballet is a general discussion group about classical dance and ballet, made up of professional dancers, directors, students, instructors, choreographers, dance artists & photographers, studio owners and many others.
	www.dancer.com /tom-parsons/faq_1.html (1815 words)

	ballet: The Modern Ballet Renaissance
		, who created a powerful sense of unity by rigorously training his corps de ballet as had not been done before, indicated in his choreography the direction of intensified romantic drama that the newly revived art was to take.
		Petipa contributed many of the classic ballets still considered to be the greatest expressions of the form, including
		(formerly the Ballet Theatre), was founded in 1939 as an offshoot of the smaller Mordkin Ballet.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/ent/a0856826.html (675 words)

	A&E November 6, 1997 -- dance - Modern Ballet -- Lyon dancers test the limits of classical technique
		Not Yorgos Loukos, artistic director of Lyon Opera Ballet, one of France's two national ballet companies, which is slated to perform this weekend at Northrop Auditorium.
		Marin's piece challenges ballet in a way that reflects the larger challenge Lyon Opera Ballet poses to the classical art form.
		Lyon Opera Ballet's project in bringing classical technique together with modern choreography is also a deliberate and bold attempt to bring the best of what we have learned from centuries past into the present day.
	www.mndaily.com /ae/Print/1997/37/st/felyon.html (1213 words)

	Amazon.com: Ballet & Modern Dance: A Concise History: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Ballet in Western Culture: A History of Its Origins and Evolution by Carol Lee
		YA A one-volume dance source that does it all, this is a history of dance from prehistory to the 20th Century.
		Modern Dance Terminology: The ABC's of Modern Dance as Defined by its Originators by Paul Love
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0871271729?v=glance (678 words)

	Dance Article, Dance Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Thisrelationship serves as the basis for Eurhythmics devised by Emile Jacques-Dalcroze which was influential to the developmentof Modern dance and Modern ballet through artists such as Marie Rambert.
		The rejection of ballet vocabulary and terms by modern dance resulted in the term choreographer replacing Ballet Master and therefore choreography came to meanthe art of making dances.
		In the early 1920s dance studies (dance practice, critical theory, analysis and history) began to be considered a serious academic discipline.
	www.anoca.org /music/studies/dance.html (888 words)

	Ballet Academy of Warrenton, Virginia 540-347-4011 A Classical Virginia Ballet School
		We at the Ballet Academy are celebrating our fifth anniversary with the founding of Warrenton Ballet, a pre-professional, non-profit company that will provide young dancers, in our area, performance opportunities in classical and contemporary ballet and modern dance.
		Voelpel presents and explains ballet technique for adults is wonderful - it's informative and easy to follow.
		Our Virginia Ballet school combines the skills of Linda Voelpel and a highly trained staff with guest jazz, tap, modern and ballet dance teachers.
	www.ballet-academy.com (570 words)

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