videos there was a lots of ballet movements except the “Rennie Harris Puremovement │ Jacob 's Pillow Dance Festival 2009," which I actually enjoyed the most. I also did see some jazz, and musical, but not tap. If I look at previous video from Bob Fosse and his “Sweet Charity”, I don’t really see any connection between the videos we have see in this chapter. The PostModern: Judson Dance Theater by Yvonne Rainer was very interesting to watch. What I was thinking when I was watching it was that it
modern era of choreographers, moving away from the aesthetics of Martha Graham and Merce Cunningham who worked with codified techniques, virtuosity and expressionism, whereas Brown saw dance as being of greater importance to the physical and mental process of the performer. Born in Aberdeen, Washington and studying dance at Mills College in California, Brown took improvisational workshops with Anna Halprin, discovering the concept of task orientated work. This knowledge would become central to her later
Catherine de’ Medici. She is important because she married into France and brought a few dance masters along with her, effectively starting court ballet. Another major figure in ballet was King Louis 14th. He established the first academy of dance and had a huge love for dance, thus giving significant state support to it. Another reason Louis instituted ballet was political; instead of fighting, people would dance. Finally, King Louis was considered the first ballet star. The next person who influenced
contexts in which dance has been and continues to be practised today, the nature of dance is a controversial subject. The word “dance” is as tricky a vocabulary as is “art”, difficult to define because of its subjectivity. Such judgement can depend on the time in question, the context in which it is presented, the genre of the performance, and so on. Chris Challis offers that dance is essentially the “choreographer’s concepts of the dancers, the major concerns of what s/he takes dance to be, and therefore