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Dance (from Old French dancier, perhaps from Frankish) generally refers to human movement either used as a form of expression or presented in a social, spiritual or performance setting.
Dance is also used to describe methods of non-verbal communication (see body language) between humans or animals (bee dance, mating dance), motion in inanimate objects (the leaves danced in the wind), and certain musical forms or genres.
Choreography is the art of making dances, and the person who does this is called a choreographer.
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Rauschenberg's Dance Fixation
Wed, 14 May 2008 06:11:33 -0800
"Something inherently theatrical about Robert Rauschenberg's talent -- always evident in his radical feeling for color, light, composition and new ingredients and juxtapositions --prompted him to his boldest and freshest conceptions when he worked onstage. From the early 1950s until 2007 he designed for dance. And in the late '50s and early '60s, when he first came to fame, he was recurrently (at times constantly) occupied in dance theater."...
Why Jerome Robbins Matters
Mon, 12 May 2008 06:20:53 -0800
Like Leonard Bernstein, "Robbins believed that it was possible to create a distinctively American style of high art that could draw on popular culture without compromising its own underlying seriousness."...
Evidence Of A Rocky Ballet Future
Sun, 11 May 2008 19:40:38 -0800
"The company didn't envision its ambitious New Works Festival, the centerpiece of the San Francisco Ballet's 75th-anniversary season, as a microcosm of what's wrong with the ballet world. But the fact that this large outlay of money, time and talent -- unprecedented in its scope -- produced more mediocrity than revelation points to a big problem for ballet. Self-renewal is not its strong suit."...
Analyzing Tudor
Sun, 11 May 2008 09:47:55 -0800
Antony Tudor "was known as the psychological choreographer, and he arrived when psychology entered American popular culture." It was a theme to which Tudor would return over and over in his long career....
Tale Of The Toe
Fri, 09 May 2008 09:47:41 -0800
Toe shoes are a major budget expense for ballet companies. The San Francisco Ballet provides 120 pairs of pointe shoes for each of its 40 female dancers. The American Ballet Theatre in New York City sets aside $350,000 for pointe shoes per season, about $7,500 per ballerina....
The Bossa Nova At 50
Thu, 08 May 2008 18:58:22 -0800
"We should have been a wonderful, democratic country. Instead we had 21 years of military dictatorship, something we are still paying for. So bossa nova represents a different way of life; a culture more sophisticated than the one we have today."...
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Rauschenberg's Dance Fixation
Wed, 14 May 2008 06:11:33 -0800
"Something inherently theatrical about Robert Rauschenberg's talent -- always evident in his radical feeling for color, light, composition and new ingredients and juxtapositions --prompted him to his boldest and freshest conceptions when he worked onstage. From the early 1950s until 2007 he designed for dance. And in the late '50s and early '60s, when he first came to fame, he was recurrently (at times constantly) occupied in dance theater."...
Why Jerome Robbins Matters
Mon, 12 May 2008 06:20:53 -0800
Like Leonard Bernstein, "Robbins believed that it was possible to create a distinctively American style of high art that could draw on popular culture without compromising its own underlying seriousness."...
Evidence Of A Rocky Ballet Future
Sun, 11 May 2008 19:40:38 -0800
"The company didn't envision its ambitious New Works Festival, the centerpiece of the San Francisco Ballet's 75th-anniversary season, as a microcosm of what's wrong with the ballet world. But the fact that this large outlay of money, time and talent -- unprecedented in its scope -- produced more mediocrity than revelation points to a big problem for ballet. Self-renewal is not its strong suit."...
Analyzing Tudor
Sun, 11 May 2008 09:47:55 -0800
Antony Tudor "was known as the psychological choreographer, and he arrived when psychology entered American popular culture." It was a theme to which Tudor would return over and over in his long career....
Tale Of The Toe
Fri, 09 May 2008 09:47:41 -0800
Toe shoes are a major budget expense for ballet companies. The San Francisco Ballet provides 120 pairs of pointe shoes for each of its 40 female dancers. The American Ballet Theatre in New York City sets aside $350,000 for pointe shoes per season, about $7,500 per ballerina....
The Bossa Nova At 50
Thu, 08 May 2008 18:58:22 -0800
"We should have been a wonderful, democratic country. Instead we had 21 years of military dictatorship, something we are still paying for. So bossa nova represents a different way of life; a culture more sophisticated than the one we have today."...
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