Influence Of Modern Dance

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MAIN BODY In this essay I will examine whether modern dance, although influenced and evolved from the political and social situations of the time, is only necessary to reflect only political messages. Every choreographer, like every artist, is influenced by the stimuli of his everyday life and expresses, through his works, his own concerns. He has the need to create, and to share with the audience, any event that is moving him, troubles him and makes him angry. His work is to be able to awaken the viewer, to attract his interest and to trouble him for the event to which he refers. This message does not need to be always only political / social, but must reflect aspects of human life in a real and moral way. Dance was created so that the person …show more content…

Within this environment, modern dance was born as an expression of the worries of that time. As opposed to the discipline of the ballet of the major Academies of Europe, which had its roots in the aristocracy, it was logical that modern dance was linked to the poor masses and established itself as a means of expressing the concerns of the American citizen. The dance technique and the choreographic view have been influenced by the problems of everyday life, representing the anxieties of the people, under the slogan "Dance is weapon in the revolutionary class struggle" of the Workers Dance League. A person who has been questioned for her purposes and about the content of her works, was the well-known Martha Graham. Martha Graham was born in 1894 in Pennsylvania, USA. Her father was a psychologist and his work had focused on the movement of the human body through mental illnesses. He argued that "The Movement Never Lies," which became Graham's motto, and she based her works on this by creating her own technique in modern dance. The techniques he has formulated, and is widely known to date, is based on the contraction and release of the body combined with

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